The cartoon in the Wednesday post by Sean Delon shows two police officers, one with a smoking gun, standing over the body of a bullet-riddled chimpanzee. Caption reads: "They want to take a second to write the next stimulus bill"
A New York Post cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing the U.S. president Barack Obama to a violent Chimp shot by police Wednesday drew outrage from civil rights leaders and elected officials who said that the emissions of the racist stereotypes of black as monkeys.
This cartoon image from the New York Post appeared on Page Six post Wednesday 18 February 2009. The cartoon, which refers to Travis the chimpanzee who was shot to death by police in Stamford, Conn. .. Monday, after it mauled a friend of his own, drew criticism Wednesday on media websites, and from civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton.
The cartoon refers to a chimpanzee named Travis, who was killed Monday by police in Stamford, Conn. .. After that mauled a friend of the owner. Obama signed his administration's economic stimulus plan Tuesday. Some critics called racist cartoon, saying it trivialized a tragedy in which a woman was disfigured and killed a chimpanzee. Others said cartoon suggests that Obama should be assassinated. Many called for a boycott of the Post and the companies that advertise in it.
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