I call it like I see it

On the front cover of Wednesday’s edition of the New York Post there was an image drawn by Sean Delonas and he is the cartoonist for the New York Post. In this image there was a Chimp being shot by two police officers with a caption saying “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill”. When this was released many people believe that they were implying that they were trying to say that Barack Obama is a chimp. When I saw this I thought to myself “How could they have something like this printed, and not expect people to think of this as some form of racism?” They later stated that this drawing on the front cover had nothing to with President Barack Obama and that they were not calling him a chimp either. They brought up the fact that a few days before a Chimp was shot and killed because he mauled one of his owner’s friends. My only question now that their side of the story was released is what does the stimulus bill have to do with the situation of the chimp that attacked the lady? I am not only raising this question because I am an African American because I know many people of other races who are highly upset as well. This drawing has been stirring controversy since last Wednesday with this image. Immediately after the release of last Wednesday’s New York Post Rev. Al Sharpton released a statement saying “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." The NAACP also chose to back Al Sharpton up to boycott the New York Post until the cartoonist as well as the chairman is fired. The New York Post apologized saying “We apologize to anyone who took this to be racial thing”, but both the NAACP and Sharpton aren’t satisfied with just an apology. The post-editor in chief later decided to attack Al Sharpton by saying “The cartoon is 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.”