New York Post Cartoon

[Eilonnwy]

The paper did apologize in a weird half-assed way. Either way, I agree completely with your sentiment in the last paragraph completely. I've been affected by reverse racism and was fire as a result of it. I think there is a point in which equality becomes "special treatment." I don't think people have a right to not be offended, but if they are offended they have the right to speak out about just as the other guy has the right to be offensive in the first place.

I'm just saying as a pure judgement call, the article is blatantly racist. I get what you're saying about it refering to the crazy chimp, and yeah there is definitely a double standard there and I don't deny it. If it was a white person it was making fun of people wouldn't be up in arms. I think the thing that makes this extremely racist is the combination of not only the chimp but also the policemen gunning him down. THAT is where it goes wrong in my opinion. And that's the kind of overtone that maybe you can only 'get' if you lived in America and know the history. There is actually a real fear amongst many people that Obama will be assassinated because he is black. It's on the back of a lots of people's mind, seriously. No fucking joke. So it's a little too close to home in that aspect. So I can legitimately see how people would get uspet over that aspect.

Simply put, this isn't a case of something that is absolutely not racist being taken out of proportion like your example of the white woman calling a black woman bitch, it's something that IS racist but still kind of being taken out of proportion.