If you haven't seen this comic that was published in the New York Post the other day, take it all in. The story goes: a woman's pet chimp attacked one of her elderly friends one day, out of the blue, and ripped her face off-killing her. When the police arrived, they shot the monkey dead. In parody of this odd situation, the comic artist penned this controversial cartoon where the cops have killed the chimp while the caption reads "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill". The country is torn on this one... Al Sharpton is calling for people heads... but is it a racial comment? At first glance, it appears the artist is outright referring to our black president (Obama) as a monkey- a common racial stereotype. But if you look/read further, it could mean that the artist is calling the Congress a bunch of monkeys, considering that it was the Congress (mostly whites) that wrote this 1000 page stimulus. Whatever the true intentions were, the NY Post and the artist had to of known that this would spark large debate and published it anyways. Possibly to generate more sales for a privately owned periodical. The world we live in...
