new york post cartoon Offensive New York Post 'Shoot The Monkey' Cartoon

new york post cartoon Political cartoonists inhabit sacred space in a free democracy. They must be free to express themselves without a filter or none of us will be. But that carte blanche does not trump my rights as a reader to voice my opinion on the perspective that's presented.

I felt the now infamous New Yorker cover was misguided, and I think Sean Delonas's cartoon in Wednesday's edition of the New York Post fails to do anything more than make light of a tragic incident, ignore the history of the NYPD's involvement in controversial shootings and perhaps label President Barack Obama a crazy monkey. ...

Sure, I see the racial implications of the cartoon. But mostly I am still haunted by the killing-murder of Amadou Diallo in 1999 and other shootings linked to the NYPD. I think Delonas's cartoon is offensive and ineffective all around.

Of course, according to TMZ, Al Sharpton fired off a statement:

"The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less-than-casual reference to this when, in the cartoon, they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that, "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."

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