Comment from Steve
Time February 19, 2009 at 6:53 pm

I probably find the Post’s and Delonas’s responses more offensive than the cartoon itself. They essentially said “Hey, EFF you!”

Any fool with half a brain can see how that strip could be perceived as racist. It doesn’t take Sharpton to see that.

Comment from @mager
Time February 19, 2009 at 6:53 pm

Love it

Comment from James
Time February 19, 2009 at 6:54 pm

Can that chimp really be a depiction of Obama? It seems too fat. Are they implying that Obama has become fat since he became President? Also the perspective is all wrong. Does anyone in America have a sense of perspective any more?

Comment from Edward Padgett
Time February 19, 2009 at 6:56 pm

Racist is alive and well in 2009, and we thought we had moved beyond this in America.

Comment from David B.
Time February 19, 2009 at 6:59 pm

I don’t believe the cartoon is intentionally racist just not very clear. I read it at first as Congress being called monkeys. Too much is being made of the drawing, I think. If it is so offensive, why give it more attention.

Comment from Sherri
Time February 19, 2009 at 7:00 pm

You stated that Bush was depicted as a monkey and no one complained, but history proves the resounding stereotypical correlation that has been made between blacks and monkeys over time. Due to this, drawing a black man as a dead monkey holds a negative connotation.
This is a matter of racial sensitivity and clearly Delonas lacks this as a professional cartoonist. If he couldn’t rethink this idea and construct another image to reflect the day’s news then maybe he should look into another profession.

Comment from Ms Mel
Time February 19, 2009 at 7:07 pm

Again if this is the case - then Attorney General Holder is right “we are nation of cowards”. And I’d like to add ignorant to the list.

I saw the cartoon and immediately thought of the” infinite monkey theory”…(Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters and they will bang out Shakespeare’s Hamlet)

You know why that came to mind:

1. Congress drafts legislation not the President!
2. My ethnicity is black and I was raised by parents who thought it better to teach me to read, write and learn arithmetic than cram symbols of hate down my throat. Therefore I never knew blacks were equated with monkeys until I got older. Still doesn’t make sense.

So if you cartoonists begin to dumb down editorial content - well if you all become irrelevant you only have yourselves to blame. Therefore I hope you all will use your talent to contribute to the dialogue not be intimidated by it.

Comment from paprikapink
Time February 19, 2009 at 7:15 pm

I think you missed the point. True, Bush was gleefully depicted as a little chimp for years. But he’s a white guy. The point you haven’t addressed is how the ape reference is different for whites than it is for blacks. Whether you consider it reasonable or not, it is a fact of life. We got a lotta unreasonable facts around here. I can see how, head down, cartoon brainstorming, the cartoonist and even the editors could possibly have not put the dots together and may not have anticipated the reaction to the cartoon. But once the reaction is out there, dismissing the reaction as nonsense helps no one. Jack and Jill Politics blog has a guest post from Dr. Philip Goff who’s done a lot of research on this and related topics http://www.jackandjillpolitics.....brutality/

Comment from Jacky Saulnier
Time February 19, 2009 at 7:15 pm

“No-brainer”? Agree - didn’t take much brain to come up with this lame cartoon. And combining two unrelated news events into a cartoon is not automatically “funny.”

Comment from Ed G
Time February 19, 2009 at 7:27 pm

Your commentary is extremely short sighted. You suggest, “that every cartoonist should make a list of every racial stereotype to avoid regarding African-Americans”. How about….”that every cartoonist should make a list of every racial stereotype to avoid regarding *all* ethnic groups”?

The cartoon was in poor taste on the human level…even if one does not consider it racist. How do you think Sandra Herold feels? How do you think friends and family of Charla Nash feel having their tragedy morphed into a political cartoon on the stimulus package?

Should we now have a cartoon using the death of Beverly Eckert in connection with the closing of Guantánamo Bay?

It was a lame cartoon and defense of the cartoon is equally lame.

Comment from stiffa
Time February 19, 2009 at 7:28 pm

you have to act like you have some measure of historical context. period. and when shit hits the fan, don’t act like you don’t have a clue.

As to the Eric Holder debate, the media did not stand quietly by. They mauled him:

http://www.popcivics.com/2009/.....ns-in.html

Comment from ellesgshelton
Time February 19, 2009 at 7:33 pm

cagle you’ve hit the nail on the head w/ words of wisdom & diplomacy. whether the cartoonist was intentionally playing w/ gunpowder or not, i would think any whiff of racism or assasination comedy is to be avoided during this presidency regardless of comedic formulae of the past. even if the reactionaries are more showing their own prejudices (or oversensitivities), what self-respecting cartoonist (no matter how edgy) wants to stoke the flames of racism or have their intended societal commentary lost amongst all the misperceptions?

Comment from tikistitch
Time February 19, 2009 at 7:37 pm

Thanks for posting this! I was interested to hear your take, especially after telling us about the kerfuffle over drawing Obama with blue lips. I\’m still a bit shocked that neither the cartoonist nor the editor nor anyone else at that paper caught that cartoon before it was published.

Comment from Prof Wordsearch
Time February 19, 2009 at 7:40 pm

We are talking about Two different News Stories here, while there was a Chimp shot, the caption called into play racial tones. It was clearly designed to incite sensitve feelings. What was the point of the Tragic story of the Chimp being laid out as a Cartoon. Somone saw it as an opportunity to make a slur on Blacks and of course, on our President. BTW, I am a 67 year old white N.Y. man and was shocked when I first saw the cartoon in the Post. A series of Cartoons or a strip depicting shock and disdain with the Post would do a lot to smooth ruffled feathers.

Comment from sichandler
Time February 19, 2009 at 7:51 pm

you comments are certainly intuitive. folks are going to have to get used to the fact that there is a lot of baggage that comes with a black president. that includes exercising some discernment and sensitivity about how Obama and his family is depicted. you\\\’d think that the incident with the New Yorker would have clued some folks in… I guess you are right, we should expect to see a lot more \\\’crash and burns\\\’ over the next four years.

Comment from kelly
Time February 19, 2009 at 8:01 pm

I just think it\’s a bad cartoon. I\’d never have connected the monkey to anything having to do with Obama. People need to get a grip on all the crap related to sensitivity over Obama\’s ethnicity. He\’s the president. Period. And yes, I voted for him.

Comment from ICDogg
Time February 19, 2009 at 8:03 pm

Putting the racial implications aside, if this chimp represents the President, and a couple of cops shot him and spoke as if this was a *good thing*, I think there’s still an issue.

Comment from Katie Bauer
Time February 19, 2009 at 8:07 pm

Sir, as much as I love your cartoons; you have to admit when you see the policeman saying “they should have wrote a better stimulus bill” while pointing a gun at a monkey; many Americans see Obama as the one who wrote the stimulus bill and signed it. You’ve lived much longer than I have; and so has the cartoonist. You probably remember some of the civil rights movement; and the racial slurs blacks were called, which includes monkey. If that man couldn’t foresee the controversy that would cause when he drew the cartoon; he’s pretty stupid, unless he wanted it.
But I don’t want it banned either. I abhor censorship, even for this moronic cartoon. The man and the New York Post were asking for it. NOW, after a shit storm was caused; they both act like clueless three-year olds, saying they did nothing wrong. Hell, if I had enough balls to draw something as contreverisal as this, I would proudly say I used my right to free speech.
-Katie Bauer

Comment from Mary C
Time February 19, 2009 at 8:12 pm

Your take on the cartoon was interesting. I didn’t automatically assume he was drawing Obama, nor that the cartoon was racist and I’m a staunch supporter of the president.

I just thought the cartoonist was stretching to make his point, and he failed.

Comment from hollymidfield
Time February 19, 2009 at 8:13 pm

So begins the end of free speech.

Comment from Kevin Moore
Time February 19, 2009 at 8:15 pm

Sorry for the self-promo, but I posted a cartoon in response to Delonas and David Cohen\’s respective troubles with negative racist stereotypes.

http://incontemptcomics.com/20.....rtoonists/

“Racism 101 for White Cartoonists” doesn\’t provide a list of racial stereotypes, as you suggest, but is a primer of sorts.

Comment from Bodhipaksa
Time February 19, 2009 at 8:16 pm

It’s a dreadful cartoon. Who is behind the writing of the stimulus bill? Who is identified with it? President Obama. So the first thought that comes to mind is that somehow the monkey is meant to represent Obama.

Then I’m afraid, Daryl, that you show no awareness of the history of blacks being compared to apes. Bush as a chimp is a personal insult to him perhaps, but associating a black man with an ape is a historically resonant insult (although I believe an unintentional one in this case) to all black people.

No, I don’t think the writer meant to compare Obama to an ape — but that’s the impression many of us are left with. It’s just a poorly thought-out cartoon: a feeble attempt at humor with unfortunate (if unintentional) racist overtones.

Comment from KatMulkey
Time February 19, 2009 at 8:38 pm

Daryl, this is an interesting and volatile topic, isn’t it? I like your idea, the solution about a list of stereotypes to avoid, in your profession. Or any profession. It might save folks a lot of anguish and misunderstanding.

True, Bush was depicted as a monkey in cartoons, but we must remember that white guys haven’t historically been insulted by a negative stereotype of a monkey That’s the aspect (the history, the context) that we have to be sensitive about. Recall the 1980s when sportscaster Howard Cosell was criticized for referring to an African-American football player as “little monkey,” and although he didn’t single the guy out, didn’t intend any disrespect, the remark did sort of fizzle out his career.

However innocent our meaning and motives, we must understand how other people, cultures, ethnicities might interpret or understand our message.

Comment from need4trth
Time February 19, 2009 at 9:17 pm

Daryl you are quite the cartoonist yet, cognitively you are the Sherlock holmes of the millineium. Of course the cartoon is racist, with underlying hate speech and even suggestion of murdering the President. The new york post need to hand that vartoonist his hat.

Comment from Amy
Time February 19, 2009 at 9:26 pm

So wait, we’re supposed to understand historical and cultural relevance in order to correctly interpret Lester’s Jonestown cartoon, but not use the same historical and cultural relevance (i.e negative AA stereotypes) to understand this cartoon?? Um, ok….

Comment from Scott
Time February 19, 2009 at 11:11 pm

The cartoon is not racist at all. It’s making fun of the stupid “spendulous bill” and at the same time the bad chimp that attacked someone. Two bad things. He was just mixing news stories. Anyone that thinks it’s racist isn’t too smart and they probably even think Obama wrote the sad bill that was written by lobbyists and Congress.

Comment from Wendell
Time February 19, 2009 at 11:45 pm

It was unavoidable that it would be interpreted as “President Obama is a chimp”, and a particularly angry, violent one at that. Actually, I personally interpreted it as “Obama hires angry chimps to write economics plans”, since I first saw it on the Internet and not in its original location in the New York Post which was opposite a page with an article about ‘Obama’s Plan’ complete with a rather large picture of the Pres. What disturbed me most about Sean Delonas’ cartoon is its glib, thoughtless message that the Stimulus Bill (a genuinely critiquable Massive Giveaway) is like an angry chimp tearing your face off. If that’s the way this man thinks, I definitely would NOT want to be around his house when Christmas Presents are opened.

Anyway, I got out my PhotoSlop software, moved some letters around in Sean’s sloppy word balloon, and made up a version of the cartoon that sends a different message (especially considering that the current Chairman of the GOP is technically Blacker than Obama…

http://www.wendell.me/wp-conte.....lonas1.png

Oops! So I tried once more with a message that would not be considered racist, but still stupid and insulting to SOMEBODY.

http://www.wendell.me/wp-conte.....lonas2.png

Me, I prefer political cartoons that DON’T tear your face off.

Comment from JD
Time February 20, 2009 at 12:19 am

I suppose it’s one thing to draw Bush caricatures as having monkey features or even looking like a monkey but an entirely different matter to draw a realistic monkey and imply it is Obama. To me, the cartoon has racist undertones. Some argue that it can’t be Obama because the legislature draft laws but that argument supposes the artist is smart enough to know that as well (my vote is no). It’s not a good cartoon — I hope the artist has a day job.

Comment from Jen
Time February 20, 2009 at 1:07 am

The cartoonist probably did follow a thought process much as you suggested–killer chimp, stimulus bill I disapprove of…Aha! Suggest that the stimulus bill was written by the killer chimp!

However, if he actually looked at what he came up with in the end, he should have seen instantly the racial overtones that would be inferred. He shouldn’t have needed a list of racial stereotypes on the back of his hand, or whatever you suggest.

If he was truly surprised by the reaction to this cartoon, he’s not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, let’s just say. And the cartoon wasn’t particularly funny, anyway, no matter which way you took it.

Comment from MobbyG
Time February 20, 2009 at 6:19 am

This cartoon == FAIL!

Comment from Eric
Time February 20, 2009 at 7:04 am

Given this cartoonist’s incredible history of gay-bashing and general right-wing hysteria, I don’t think it’s stretching the imagination to believe that he wanted you to guess as to whether or not he meant Obama or Congress. Given so many editorial cartoons’ penchant for depicting groups or bodies of government as creatures with the name of said body written on the animal, his deliberate omission of an identifying marker was purposeful.

Comment from chimaera2009
Time February 20, 2009 at 8:29 am

Sean Delonas knew what he was doing before he made that comic, no matter how you slice it. It’s the stimulus bill. It’s a dead chimpanzee. Whether or not the chimp is *intended* to be Obama is irrelevant, because it’s only about what people *perceive* the chimp to be.

Also I find the fact that the Post is entirely unapologetic and backing their cartoonist up the most appalling thing of all.

Comment from Michael
Time February 20, 2009 at 9:11 am

It’s not racist, it’s just a stupid cartoon drawn by a lazy man.

Comment from Chasemason
Time February 20, 2009 at 9:40 am

I must be one of many who didn\\\’t interpret this poorly-conceived cartoon as racist, until the media started telling me I should see it that way. I think the original message was intended to be that the stimulus plan was written by chimps. If anybody thinks President Obama sat down and wrote all this himself, they are deluded. I thought it was offensive, racist overtones or not!

Comment from carolannb
Time February 20, 2009 at 12:25 pm

Political satire has always tread a fine line between comical and offensive; but, that being said, there is a difference between right and wrong. Was the cartoonist intending the pictorial to be racist in nature? That, I cannot answer. Does it give the presumptious appearance that it is racist in nature? Unfortunately, yes. I am not a mind reader, nor can I assume that the political satire was intended directly at the president, but I can say with certainty that the cartoon was clearly done in poor taste — no matter what the intention was behind it. Given that the cartoonist is conservative, one can naturally assume that there was an ulterior motive behind the drawing.

A picture tells a thousand words — whether it’s a photograph or a work (or non-work) of art. One can clearly say that the author of this cartoon (and the folks who support him) used a number of current events to pull together a poorly-drawn image that in my opinion, was cleverly concealed to potentially hide or admonish the actual intent of the message. Kind of like staying at the scene of a crime to cover up actual guilt. But that’s just my opinion…it should’ve been retracted, and the Newspaper should’ve apologized for any possible offense. Period.

Comment from Keleigh Hardie
Time February 20, 2009 at 12:30 pm

The main problem here is that the cartoon is just bad! It’s not clear who the monkey represents, and unlike most bad cartoonists he didn’t bother to label it so we’d know just who he thinks should be shot. This makes it very easy for someone to connect it to the President and see it as racism and an implied assassination threat. I can’t know if he intended it that way, but it’s not hard to see it that way.
Even worse is his hamhanded attempt to conflate two unrelated, and unrelatable news stories. Zippy fans will recognize this as an editorial ‘Fletcher & Tanya’ cartoon, random verbage on a random drawing.
Oh, that and it’s kinda creepy.

Comment from Richard
Time February 20, 2009 at 12:53 pm

The shock for me is how many people out there evidently think President Obama wrote the stimulus bill. Those of us who paid attention in school were taught such things are normally written by Congressmen (and those of us who pay attention to the news know the stimulus bill was written by lobbyists). Those reaching to associate the chimp in the drawing with a black President reveal their ignorance of the political system.

Comment from jane
Time February 20, 2009 at 1:32 pm

I find it difficult to believe the cartoonist thought only of the monkey that was shot & just happened to put that together with the stimulus bill. What I\\\’ve gathered from you so far is that cartoonist are by no means dumb. If he wanted to steer away from problems, perhaps he should have used a pig… you know how some said the stimulus bill is full of pork. But an ape? Nah.
I don\\\’t believe the media loves race issues; I believe the media loves histronics & that\\\’s what attracts them. That said, the protest Al Sharpton led yesterday was exactly what is needed ~ non-violent protests. Was the media all over it? I saw 1 clip about it & that was about 10 seconds long. Perhaps the media \\"love\\" was short-lived.
About the chimp = Obama & comparing that to cartoonists drawing Bush as a chimp, the 2 shouldn\\\’t even be compared. Historically in our country, African American\\\’s have been referred to as monkeys, apes, etc.; white people haven\\\’t been. How that point evades people who use the Bush = monkey, argument surprises me. Was the Bush monkey <i>ever</i> depicted as shot dead by 2 non-white policemen?
Cartoonists don\\\’t need to stop making cartoons about African Americans. And I agree with AG Holder about us being cowards in regards to race relations. What I believe Holder was saying is that racism is the elephant in the room, we all try to avoid it, but it\\\’s there & we all know it. There is a way to create cartoons regarding race relations that will promote discussion ~ who knows? Maybe you\\\’ll be the cartoonist that grasps that concept & goes with it.
I used to believe our country was color-blind, but I read blogs that write about African Americans playing the victims, the double standard of using the \\"N\\" word, stating that things really are equal now ~ they are not, that say since Obama\\\’s now president that proves we\\\’re all equal; unbelievable! I was amazed at the commentors that were infuriated with African Americans, as though they should have jumped off the slave train & right onto the train of the American dream!
As a nation we need to stop & take a look at the history of how we\\\’ve treated African Americans. They were brought here as slaves… as SLAVES. Just because they were freed does NOT mean they were treated any differently than before. In our lifetime they couldn\\\’t vote, inter-racial marriage was forbidden, they couldn\\\’t drink from the same water faucet, they had to sit at the back of the bus. But white people don\\\’t want to hear about that anymore. We tell them, \\"You\\\’re not a slave, be happy! You\\\’ve got all the opportunities we\\\’ve got!\\" And that\\\’s a load of BS.
Honest dialogue. That will happen when non-African Americans actually <i>listen</i> to what Black Americans have to say… their experience, their family history, disenfranchisement, how the police treat them, the quality of their school. But we\\\’ve got to do more than listen with our ears, we need to hear them. No other ethnicity in our country has lived their experience. Then, if you want to draw about it, draw about how we Americans actually think we \\"get\\" it, but we\\\’re missing the boat & the boat isn\\\’t going to sail away.

Comment from Joseph Rank
Time February 20, 2009 at 3:44 pm

Bob Cesca is correct. The election and inauguration of President Obama, a black man, is making the Right Wingers go insane. This includes RW cartoonists.

They cannot contain their inner hate and inherent racism. Where they may have had some small moral compass in the past; they are now lashing out in fits of uncontrolled rage.

This loss of sanity is manifesting in various ways.
Some have even resorted to making personal threats against myself for pointing out their bigotry.
( Course, they may be uninformed that it is quite possible that they violated a California anti-terrorism statute. I have a very good attorney. )

Comment from jane
Time February 20, 2009 at 3:46 pm

Joseph Rank, that’s an excellent point!

Comment from Mike Kirkeberg
Time February 20, 2009 at 4:14 pm

I guess we haven’t grown out of racism yet, after all.

Comment from Daly de Gagne
Time February 20, 2009 at 5:04 pm

I saw the cartoon, made the link between the mad chimp that was shot and the notion that the halls of any capital are filled with monkeys who run the place.

As a mixed race person, Ojibway and European, or to use the term Mr. Obama used, mutt, I didn’t make the race connection until news of the controversy reached me. I looked at the cartoon again. I remembered the George W Bush cartoons. I remember the widget I had on my Google home page called Chimpomatic that provided offerings of Mr. Bush’s garbled syntax.

I’m the kind of bleeding heart liberal conservatives love to knock - in fact, I’m even further left, a social democrat even.

The nuances of race and perceptions of race have been with me all of my life. Most of my adult life I have had close connections with the East Indian community from India, and people of East Indian descent from the West Indies.

So clearly, the short coming is mine that I fail to see the racism in the cartoon. It’s a good political cartoon that begged to be drawn by any cartoonist who saw the connection.

And no doubt I am being very naive when I suggest to fellow liberals, lefties, and even conservatives who took offense at the cartoon that they remind of the little boy who cried wolf once too often. When the boy called wolf for the last time, no help came, because no one believed him.

The analogy is that when there is an occurrence of genuine, hateful racism it is less likely to be taken seriously.

As for the liberals, who love to mock the conservatives for being paranoid, avoid the pit of slime dunk politics and don’t start attributing motives of racial hatred in a broad brush way to the “right.” And if there’s clear evidence of racism, aim for the heart, whether the target is right or left.

Daly de Gagne

Comment from Jan
Time February 20, 2009 at 7:28 pm

It’s odd — the very first time I saw that cartoon, my interpretation of it was (and remains) that the cartoonist was slamming the stimulus bill (could have been written by a monkey, in other words), NOT slamming the president. And even if he HAD been slamming the president, since when did that become off-limits, just because the man in the office now is bi-racial?

Speaking just for myself, I’m over it with how hard and for how long we’ve spent our intellectual, spiritual, and other resources on parading the ways in which we’re all different. If there’s ever been a time to truly unite as a country, it’s now, and to do that we need to concentrate on the ways in which we’re the same.

Can’t you imagine that exact same cartoon if McCain had been elected? But there would have been none of this forced furor over it, and no one would stop forward to fan racism flames at a time when we’re trying to put out the fires.

Comment from Stephen
Time February 21, 2009 at 8:11 pm

Is this what the left side of the aisle does all day? Looking for racism in all the wrong places. The cartoon is only mildly funny to me as it is a bit of a stretch in logic. Those who see the cartoonist picking on Obama are projecting their own racism into the mix. Presidents don’t write legislation, remember? If he would have said “Sign the next stimulus bill” you’re have a point.

Comment from vaXzine
Time February 22, 2009 at 12:39 pm

We’re all a bunch of monkeys. Get over yourself. If you refer to yourself as a color, then you’re just not thinking. What’s the point? There are no ‘black’ people, there are no ‘white’ people. We’re all in this shit together.

It’s the little green guys with big plans that you all should be most concerned about.

Comment from shastadaisy
Time February 23, 2009 at 11:34 am

Mr. Cagle:
>
>I know it’s the party line to put every attempt at sensitivity and
>humanity into the trash heap of political correctness, but I’m going
>to unload anyhow about your thesis:
>
>Re your comment, “Combining two unrelated things in a cartoon is
funny.”:
>
>No, it isn’t funny having to shoot an animal because that animal
>maimed a person, who last I heard is fighting for her life. No, it
>isn’t funny to be crass and insensitive to a group who were defined
>by Jim Crow laws only 50 years ago.
>
>I do agree with the following phrase of yours to describe this whole
>business: “Formulaic no-brainer.”

Comment from Finrod
Time February 23, 2009 at 9:15 pm

Obama will be the death of free speech, either by his action or by his supporters.

Given the cartoons that directly compared Bush and everyone in the Bush Administration (including Condoleeza Rice who got some of the worst of it) to the most vile and degraded things on the planet, anyone who accepted those cartoons without raising a peep has no right to complain about this cartoon that doesn\’t even mention Obama, yet people pull out the racism deck anyways. Let me repeat: if you didn\’t object to the racist cartoons of C. Rice (or worse, laughed at them), you\’re a damned hypocrite if you\’re complaining about this cartoon.

What goes around comes around. Deal with it, the First Amendment isn\’t just there to protect speech that you like.

Comment from Wayne Whig
Time February 24, 2009 at 10:42 am

@ sherry -

*You stated that Bush was depicted as a monkey and no one complained, but history proves the resounding stereotypical correlation that has been made between blacks and monkeys over time. Due to this, drawing a black man as a dead monkey holds a negative connotation.*

then what about Obama calling Sarah Palin a `pig’?

Sorry, actually he didn’t did he? And no, the monkey depicted is not supposed to be Obama; it is the monkey who attacked a woman somewhere or another, and this was the commentary - that a monkey wrote the stimulus bill.

It is all a manufactured controversy, an attempt to get an already supine media to shut up entirely about Obama and his `audicious’ agenda of spending the u.s. into the poorhouse.

Comment from E. F. Cunningham
Time February 25, 2009 at 2:44 pm

About the \\\\"Cartoon\\\\", I believe that people jumped to the conclusion that Obama wrote the \\\\"stimulus plan\\\\".
Wrong!!! Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid wrote the thing, if what I have read in the news is correct. I don\\\\\\\’t understand why the black [I do not use the term \\\\"African American], community immediately rush to take the least little hint of anything black in print or elsewhere and start the ball rolling and boiling shouting Racism!!! It seems to me that that kind of mentality only serves to keep racism alive in today\\\\\\\’s America. I, personally, am getting sick and tired of all the whining coming out of the black community! Wonder what the response would be to a \\\\"White History Month\\\\" or a \\\\"United Caucasion College Fund\\\\"! Wouldn\\\\\\\’t be very pretty, would it?

Comment from E. F. Cunningham
Time February 25, 2009 at 2:54 pm

About the Cartoon, I believe that people jumped to the conclusion that Obama wrote the stimulus plan.
Wrong!!! Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid wrote the thing, if what I have read in the news is correct. I don\’t understand why the black [I do not use the term African American], community immediately rush to take the least little hint of anything black in print or elsewhere and start the ball rolling and boiling shouting Racism!!! It seems to me that that kind of mentality only serves to keep racism alive in today\’s America. I, personally, am getting sick and tired of all the whining coming out of the black community! Wonder what the response would be to a White History Month or a United Caucasion College Fund! Wouldnt be very pretty, would it?

Comment from David G.
Time February 28, 2009 at 4:00 pm

I made my own comic involving monkeys a few years ago. Hardly anyone was offended though.

http://dmgermain.blogspot.com/.....nkeys.html