John Legend’s open letter to the New York Post

More entertainers should stand up and boycott the New York Post. They should refused any more interviews until they print a legitimate retraction and apology to our President and all African-Americans. John Legend was deeply affected by the racist cartoon and decided to write an open letter to these dum-asses.

Dear Editor:

I’m trying to understand what possible motivation you may have had for publishing that vile cartoon depicting the shooting of the chimpanzee that went crazy. I guess you thought it would be funny to suggest that whomever was responsible for writing the Economic Recovery legislation must have the intelligence and judgment of a deranged, violent chimpanzee, and should be shot to protect the larger community. Really? Did it occur to you that this suggestion would imply a connection between President Barack Obama and the deranged chimpanzee? Did it occur to you that our President has been receiving death threats since early in his candidacy? Did it occur to you that blacks have historically been compared to various apes as a way of racist insult and mockery? Did you intend to invoke these painful themes when you printed the cartoon?

If that’s not what you intended, then it was stupid and willfully ignorant of you not to connect these easily connectable dots. If it is what you intended, then you obviously wanted to be grossly provocative, racist and offensive to the sensibilities of most reasonable Americans. Either way, you should not have printed this cartoon, and the fact that you did is truly reprehensible. I can’t imagine what possible justification you have for this. I’ve read your lame statement in response to the outrage you provoked. Shame on you for dodging the real issue and then using the letter as an opportunity to attack Rev. Sharpton. This is not about Rev. Sharpton. It’s about the cartoon being blatantly racist and offensive.

I believe in freedom of speech, and you have every right to print what you want. But freedom of speech still comes with responsibilities and consequences. You are responsible for printing this cartoon, and I hope you experience some real consequences for it. I’m personally boycotting your paper and won’t do any interviews with any of your reporters, and I encourage all of my colleagues in the entertainment business to do so as well. I implore your advertisers to seriously reconsider their business relationships with you as well.

You should print an apology in your paper acknowledging that this cartoon was ignorant, offensive and racist and should not have been printed.

I’m well aware of our country’s history of racism and violence, but I truly believe we are better than this filth. As we attempt to rise above our difficult past and look toward a better future, we don’t need the New York Post to resurrect the images of Jim Crow to deride the new administration and put black folks in our place. Please feel free to criticize and honestly evaluate our new President, but do so without the incendiary images and rhetoric.

Sincerely,
John Legend

Al Sharpton angry over New York Post Racist Monkey Comics

I usually don’t pay much attention to what Al Sharpton says most of the times, but this time he’s right on target. Racist New York Times decided to print a cartoon by cartoonist Sean Delonas depicting 2 cops shooting a Chimpanzee and saying “Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill.”

The cartoon is making a reference to a cops killing a Chimpanzee belonging to a woman this week after he attacks another woman. It is clear and obvious that they’re pointing at President Obama’s signing the stimulus package. They are the same people who will gladly stick their handout to be bailed out.

Here’s Sharpton’s 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?”

Skinheads plot to kill Obama failed

First I must post this question…Do these idiots realize what the backlash would be if they even attempted such a thing and succeeded? I’m not even going there, but let’s just say that world war 3 would be an understatement.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said they foiled plans by an 18 and 20 year old neo-Nazi skinheads to rob a gun store and target a high school attended predominantly by African-Americans. They had plan to kill 88 black people and 14 of them by beheading them and to close and go after Obama.

To be fair, these 2 idiots didn’t come up with this plan on their own. They heard plenty of voices that added fuel to their already deranged mind. Help from folks like Mike Huckabee who made a reference to Obama getting shot at when he heard a noise backstage at one of his speeches. People like FOX news Liz Trotta’s that thought that it was funny to call Obama Osama and said that somebody should knock both of them off and then laugh. The McCain/Palin campaign attitude did not help either. They allow folks to scream out racist comments and jokes without correcting them.

Although we all hope that it wouldn’t come to this, we knew sooner or later it would happen and this wasn’t the last we will hear from these skinheads.