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Who’s the monkey now?

We all saw the cartoon that had everyone ready to head to the front lines yesterday. The NY Post‘s cartoon by Sean Delonas had everyone in an uproar. I think it’s really funny that the artist is clearly playing upon people’s ignorance. At first glance it looks like Monkey=Black president, but then I thought, clearly that can’t be true. President’s don’t write bills, so what really is he saying? Ahh, he was betting that people wouldn’t realize that. Shame on it all that the NY Post isn’t as relevant as he thought it was. Since he hasn’t made a statement yet, all we have are our assumptions that this was a racially charged attempt at journalism vs. simple fun political satire.

So what now? We rant and rave about this cartoon, and he goes down in infamy? For the next 4-8 years will we be overwhelmed by cartoonists trying to be slick? My guess is probably so. Freedom of press says they don’t have to stop. Common sense says we just have to ignore them. I got all up in arms and was ready to email, write, call, fax the NY Post and ask them WTHeck were they thinking. Then I slowed down and realized that for everything I could say they would hide behind their Amendment rights to Freedom of Press. And you know what, that’s absolutely right. You have freedom to print whatever you want. Just be ready for the consequences when all of a sudden your 15 minutes of fame turns into a lifetime of complete misery because people think you are a complete racist moron. You can say all day that it’s just political satire and it was meant to be funny and “oh, there was a crazy monkey in the news recently, that’s what I was talking about!” But at the end of the day, all people will care to see is the surface. That’s what you wanted anyway right? There are people who seriously believe that racism is dead now that we have President Obama in office. Get out of here with that. What was it? 53% of the country voted for him. While the rest had their own reasons for not doing so some of which included calling him a Muslim as though that were akin to Satan, or even uttering the N word here and there. Racism is dead now that some people have turned their hate from people of my color to people of another? Racism is dead when a cartoonist can publish a picture of a monkey being shot implying that it is our current President of increased melanin? How rude and inappropriate. Let me list a few animals that have stereotypically been associated with Black people in case the cartoonist feels like we’re just being sensitive. Coon, Monkey, Crickets (as in Moon Crickets), Roaches, Apes, and pretty much any animals that is black and “beastily” and everyone should run and fear. You can’t tell me that he wasn’t *trying* to say that the monkey=Pres. Obama, and that he should be shot. *shaking my head* I can’t even wrap my head around this well enough to finish this post.

We’ve been through it all, heard it all, seen it all. Keep bringing it all you people just out to make a splash. We have a black President. Here’s your 15 minutes of fame. We’ll see you in 4 years, when he’ll still be relevant and you’ll still just be a circus freak.

Oh and everyone fasten your seat belts. He wasn’t the first and he won’t be the last.

JG*

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