A SAD DAY IN AMERICA...

Sean Delonas, the despicable artist responsible for drawing this horrid cartoon, along with the New York Post, have hidden behind the horrific details of an event in Connecticut to traffic-in racist imagery and gratuitous violence in the name of parody. On February 18th, 2009, the Post printed the above cartoon in their newspaper which depicts two police officers shooting-down a chimpanzee.

I think we can all agree it is painfully obvious that this cartoon contains a clearly racist thread; intentional or not. Saying that there is a need to find someone new to write a stimulus bill after shooting said ape implies that only one person wrote the bill in the first place. The only person who might be considered solely responsible for that piece of legislation is President Barack Obama, who we all know is African American, ergo the chimp in the comic stands for Obama whether the artist "intended" it or not. Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him, it is not a reach to wonder that they are indeed inferring that a monkey (Obama) wrote the bill.

Racists frequently refer to darker-skinned people as monkeys, apes, or some vulgar variation and specifically call black people chimps. Many racists are currently looking at this cartoon in exactly that way, as they chuckle and spew their atrocious reasoning behind the cartoon's supposed meaning. Sean Delonas is not guilty here of being funny, but of not thinking this cartoon through. In fact, perhaps thinking this through is EXACTLY what they (The Post) did after all. The Post is guilty of blind insensitivity for printing a cartoon depicting the shooting-down of the chimp who sadly attacked a woman and they are devilishly guilty of outright disrespect and racism clearly directed towards our President.