The New York Post offers an Apology
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The New York Post offers a lame apology with an attitude. I guess everything should be hunky dory now. Yeah right!
Wednesday’s Page Six cartoon – caricaturing Monday’s police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut – has created considerable controversy.
It shows two police officers standing over the chimp’s body: “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill,” one officer says.
It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill.
Period.
But it has been taken as something else – as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism.
This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.
However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past – and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback.
To them, no apology is due.
Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon – even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.
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It always appropriate to offer apologies if you think you have offfended someone. I’m glad The New York Post did that, but was it necessary sinc Obama believes in evolution? Was it necessary since the cartoon alluded to the writer of the stimulus bill, which was not Obama…it was Pelosi.
I’m Black, and I want apologies from BET, and other Black owned organizations who pimp and send demoralizing messages to our children, and cause them to have a victim’s mentality. I want apologies from my Black brothers and sisters who cause me to have burglar bars and not feel secure after dark in my neighborhood. I want apologies from my little Black brothers for being forced to look at their underwear.
Yes, some Whites are racist…but we are just as racist. Let’s stop the blame game. We fought for integration. I’m 69, so I experienced segregation first hand. I did the sit-ins and risked my life in South Texas to have integration. So now, what do we do…we are just as exclusive as Whites were in the 40’s and 50’s. We have so many “all Black” organizations. Suppose there was a Miss White America, (WET)White Entertainment TV, White Police Assoc., White Mayor’s Conference, etc.
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