Monkey cartoon draws fire from black leader

[andrewjs18]

At it again we have America's worst shake-down artist. This guy needs to move on and let racism die. Personally, I think he's 1 of the main reasons it's still around. You just can't say anything that has the word 'black' or refer to any sort of 'monkey' in it publicly anymore without being criticized and then called a racist by Sharpton or Jackson.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...M6AXKcldcC7FOg

NEW YORK (AFP) — A political cartoon in the New York Post Wednesday that portrayed the author of the US economic recovery plan as a monkey was denounced as offensive by black civil rights leader Al Sharpton.

The cartoon, which ran on page 12 of the tabloid, showed a policeman killing a monkey, a reference to an incident in Connecticut Monday when an officer shot dead a chimpanzee that had seriously injured a woman.

In the drawing, another police officer comments: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."

Sharpton called the cartoon "troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys."

"Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African-American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?" he asked in a statement.

Col Allan, the Post's editor-in-chief, defended the cartoon as "a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington's efforts to revive the economy.

"Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist," Allan said in a statement posted on the Huffington Post website, which first drew attention to the controversy.

[P-11 shooter]

http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/17243

That's a stretch even for Sharpton.

I swear there's no bigger media whore out there.

[Bug44]

It is called Freedom of speech... If you have a problem with what I say or draw up... Move to France... That is just to bad people have to do that shit...

[P-11 shooter]

I just don't see it as being racist.

[dc dalton]

http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/17243

That's a stretch even for Sharpton.

I swear there's no bigger media whore out there.

Brother you got that right ... Sharpton is THE biggest self serving piece of SHIT ever to make it onto the public scene. Every respectable black person I know calls him the "dumbassed N****" (their words not mine).

All that piece of crap wants is something to scream and yell about so he can get more suckers to donate to his foundation so he can live the high life for another year or so .. that clown is raping his own people and they have no idea!

[Calvin]

Sometimes people just need to get a life.

[andrewjs18]

Brother you got that right ... Sharpton is THE biggest self serving piece of SHIT ever to make it onto the public scene. Every respectable black person I know calls him the "dumbassed N****" (their words not mine).

All that piece of crap wants is something to scream and yell about so he can get more suckers to donate to his foundation so he can live the high life for another year or so .. that clown is raping his own people and they have no idea!

they think he's doing them good...he's only declining the race by extorting companies and making false claims for his own people which are ludacris.

[mikey0086]

It wasn't even on a porch.

thank you.... just spit my tea all over my laptop!! lol

mikey

[glockman22]

.. that clown is raping his own people and they have no idea!

we know he is a fraud...i for one do not stand behined him on most issues..but that cartoon is just a cheap shot man i mean come on..

[P-11 shooter]

we know he is a fraud...i for one do not stand behined him on most issues..but that cartoon is just a cheap shot man i mean come on..

Do you really think so?

I mean, honestly.