Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of the New York Post has apologised for the printing of a cartoon in where police have shot a chimp dead and one of the officers says “they’ll have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill.” Now if that is not a slap in the face or what? Long has the association of monkeys, gorillas, and chimps been intertwined with the description of African- Americans. It has gone on longer than I have been alive. At first the cartoonist and paper said that the cartoon is not racist, it was meant to mock President Obama’s legislation (the $787B stimulus package).
WTF? Are you serious? I cannot believe that they can sit there and say that. I know at some point, they have to either have heard the correlation made or used it themselves. Now with the amount of backlash that has come up surrounding this, Murdoch, and the paper in conjunction, is apologizing for the “mistake” and now they will seek to be more attuned to the sensitivities of their community in the future.
Lets just hope so…
