Blatant racism or not? I'd like to think not.
However, the cartoon of police looking at a chimp they've shot and say someone else has to now write the stimulus bill rubs me wrong way. Irks me. To me,. it is a stereotypical reference to my race. Chimps and monkeys. My first view of the cartoon had me do a second take. I wondered out loud: "Is the cartoonist saying President Obama is a monkey? Should the monkey be shot?"
I'm aware of the person being mauled by a chimp. I'm well aware of the stimulus bill--where's my bailout?--nonetheless--if a shot at sly stereotypical slip was intended, it worked. If it wasn't to be a shot at stereotypical junk--it didn't work.
The cartoonist had a right to be creative and editorial edgy.
I have the right to ask the cartoonist: Just what were you thinking?
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