Comparing Black People to Monkeys is Cool…
Posted on 19. Feb, 2009 by Dallas VonKillbot in Idiocy, Politics
... or at least the New York Post thinks so. The Post ran a political cartoon today depicting President Obama as a chimpanzee that had bullet holes in it's chest. The image immediately set off a panic with race groups and other people that aren't fucking racist pricks. I mean it's one thing to make fun of the Jews, the Chinamen, or those damned Mexicans, but the Blacks?! COME ON!
NEW YORK, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators rallied to boycott the New York Post on Thursday, branding the newspaper as racist for publishing a cartoon that appeared to compare President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee.
Demonstrators led by civil rights activist Al Sharpton chanted "End racism now!" outside the parent company's skyscraper in midtown Manhattan and called for the jailing of Rupert Murdoch, whose international media conglomerate News Corp (NWSA.O) owns the Post.
The newspaper has defended the cartoon as a parody of Washington politics, but Sharpton said it exploited a potent image in the history of racism toward blacks.
Published on Wednesday, it shows police shooting an ape and plays on the real shooting of a pet chimpanzee that went on a rampage in Connecticut this week.
One of the police officers says, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."
Because Obama promoted the $787 billion economic stimulus that he signed into law on Tuesday, critics of the cartoon interpreted the dead chimp as a reference to Obama, who became the first black U.S. president on Jan. 20.
"I guess they thought we were chimpanzees," Sharpton said. "They will find out we are lions."
Sharpton said he would meet with advertisers to encourage them to pull their ads and said New Yorkers would boycott the newspaper.
"You would have to be in a time warp or in a whole other world not to know what that means," said demonstrator Charles Ashley, 25, a model who did not believe the cartoon was an innocent political joke.
Do you get the joke?! It's a monkey! You know, because Black people are less evolved!!! DID YOU LULZ??! I DID!!! RACISM, FUCK YEA!!!
I could have swore Alabama and New York were kinda far apart.
Maybe it was the other way around.
Maybe they were calling the monkey a stupid n… er, um. President. Yeah. That’s it. They were calling the monkey a stupid president.
Guess what, the president doesn’t write legislature. So Obama didn’t write the stimulus bill.
Technically the monkey would represent congress or more specifically, Nancy Pelosi.
I don’t have much left to live for, so it has been my crusade to make the world realize that chimpanzees are not monkeys. Chimpanzees are apes. This is something even animal planet can’t seem to get right.
Lesson: read more, watch tv less.
Regardless of taxonomy or who wrote the bill, the cartoon is still blatantly offensive. Why combine the chimpanzee story with the completely unrelated stimulus story, unless the goal was to slip some racism into the national media? The fact that nobody stopped it from being published is appalling.
I realize this doesn’t diminish the raging racism of the comic, but it has become my sole mission in life to educate the world about this one fact:
Chimpanzees are not monkeys. Chimpanzees are apes.
On a related note, don’t watch Animal Planet. They haven’t figured this out yet, either. TV is awesome.