Al Sharpton Goes Ape Over NY Post Cartoon

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"Sharpton already fired off 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 when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."

http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/18/al-sharpton-monkey-cartoon-obama/

Except that Pelosi wrote the stimulus bill, not Obama. Can't Pelosi be a chimp as well as a chump?
 
Cicero said:
"Sharpton already fired off 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 when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."

http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/18/al-sharpton-monkey-cartoon-obama/

Except that Pelosi wrote the stimulus bill, not Obama. Can't Pelosi be a chimp as well as a chump?
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Where did our sense of humor go?
I think the thing reflects the not uncommon sentiment that "a monkey (ape) could do a better job than those idiots in Washington", regardless of political affiliation...
 
Hive-five dude! Awesome subtle racism in your title along with pretending that enough people still care about what Sharpton says!
 
Al's entire life is based on outrage over nonsense, or on the wrong side of the issue. (The Tawana Brawley scam happened near me. He was on the wrong side of that one, but refused to admit it.)

Why does anyone pay any attention to this clown/media whore? He's worse than useless – he creates problems where there were none, and makes real problems far bigger than they would have been without his presence.
 
The Irony is, of course, that Al Sharpton and his antics are the best thing that happened to the REAL racists in a long time.
 
dudalb said:
The Irony is, of course, that Al Sharpton and his antics are the best thing that happened to the REAL racists in a long time.
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Very true. I also found it funny that a lot of my students didn't get the joke because the first thing they thought of was "1,000 monkeys with 1,000 typewriters will eventually write Shakespeare."
 
LostAngeles said:
Hive-five dude! Awesome subtle racism in your title along with pretending that enough people still care about what Sharpton says!
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What more need be said when "dude" and "awesome" have said it all.

BTW: Caroline Kennedy figured Al was still an iconic figure in the black community since she chowed down with him at a Harlem soul food eatery during her ill-fated publicity tour for "Snipery" Hillary's Senate seat.
 
Redtail said:
Very true. I also found it funny that a lot of my students didn't get the joke because the first thing they thought of was "1,000 monkeys with 1,000 typewriters will eventually write Shakespeare."
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Congrats to your students. They are brighter than their instructors.
 
Upchurch said:
But you can help commenting on the fact. ....or maybe you can't. Hence, obsession.
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Welcome to the JREF. Home of the obsessed. You couldn't resist chastising me for mentioning Camelot Caroline.
 
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In this case I think Sharpton may have a point, and the title of the OP makes things worse. I say may, because it is not clear what was the intended target of the cartoon, and whether the cartoonist was aware of the connotations of this form of racism.

The same point could have been made by using, say, a Donkey in the cartoon.
 
Doctor Evil said:
In this case I think Sharpton may have a point, and the title of the OP makes things worse. I say may, because it is not clear what was the intended target of the cartoon, and whether the cartoonist was aware of the connotations of this form of racism.

The same point could have been made by using, say, a Donkey in the cartoon.
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Maybe, but there was the chimp was recently shot by cops.
 
I was going to ask why they used a monkey at all, but then I read the entire article and saw that it was relating a story where a monkey was shot in Connecticut. The cartoon could have used a bit more context. Bad on the cartoonist's part.
 
Upchurch said:
I was going to ask why they used a monkey at all, but then I read the entire article and saw that it was relating a story where a monkey was shot in Connecticut. The cartoon could have used a bit more context. Bad on the cartoonist's part.
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Reading the whole story, I'm a little surprised people aren't more offended that he decided to make fun of a case where a woman was mauled and had her face and most of her fingers ripped off, and will be horribly disfigured for life if she survives.

Yes, chimpanzees are funny. But generally, not when they're ripping someone's face off.

Unless they're wearing like a party hat or a little pink tutu or something. It might be funny then. A little bit.
 
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