SHARPTON CALLS OUT NY POST FOR RACIST CARTOON

Sammie Stocks



Wednesday’s NY Post features this cartoon from Sean Delonas following news that a police officer shot and killed a rampaging chimpanzee in Connecticut.


Al Sharpton issued a statement early Wednesday 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.”

“Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?”