New York Times Political Cartoon

[DuncanONeil]

No one said EVERYBODY saw the cartoon as racist, but it is and had been a common slur to equate blacks with monkeys and chimps and other simians. And for an editor not to see that either means he was totally and ridiculously out of touch or he KNEW that it would be misconstrued that way and did not care.

And besides the racial overtones it could be seen as inciting violence against the president or against other government officials. ANd I am constantly amazed at the capacity for hypocrisy by conservatives and Republicans (I am listening now to Republican Congressman, who wrote the book on earmarks and pork, talking about Obama's Stim bill).

Just one incident here, but there were many others: The Dixie Chicks were vilified and sent DEATH threats by idiots when they had simply stated they were embarassed to be from the same state as Bush. And you would have thought they killed someone.

And now this awful cartoon is seen as not a big deal.

"it is and had been a common slur to equate blacks with monkeys and chimps and other simians." Really!? Not in my life!

[Belgarold]

"it is and had been a common slur to equate blacks with monkeys and chimps and other simians." Really!? Not in my life!

Your ignorance of the slur does not mean it hasn't been VERY prevalent. And the "Barack the Magic Negro" incident is NOT apocryphal, it happened. And it cited in this very thread.

And a simple google search found this as the first listing. I could cite more if you would like.
http://www.racialslurs.com/search?q=monkeys&sort=slur