Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders think a New York Post cartoon "compares President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee and is thus racist," said Yael T. Abouhalkah in the Kansas City Star. The Post says the Sean Delonas cartoon merely mocks Washington's efforts to revive the economy by suggesting that a chimp could have written the stimulus bill. I buy that—the racial connotations are just too obvious for this to have been more than an innocent slip.
"Come on," said Michael Tomasky in Britain's The Guardian. "Where were you born?" In a country with the racial history of the U.S., a cartoon saying a black president's policies were the work of an ape is going to send a racist message, and Delonas had to know that. "I have not always seen eye-to-eye" with Sharpton, but he's "as right as he can be in this case."
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