OK, now that I’ve read the Huffington Post’s explanation of this political cartoon, I no longer see it as racist imagery.
What the cartoonist was attempting to imply is that the stimulus bill is so laughable that a monkey could have written it.
And when you consider the fact that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are the true architects behind the bill, then you realize the cartoonist meant them, and not Obama.
UPDATE from HuffPo:
Rev. Al Sharpton has weighed in on the cartoon in a statement:
“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?”
