What will the New York Post do to Sean Delona for the racist chimpanzee cartoon?
The cartoon shows a police officer, after his colleague just shot dead a chimpanzee, saying, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.” Critics said Wednesday that the chimpanzee served as a crude interpretation of Obama, the nation’s first black president, who signed the $787 billion economic stimulus package into law Tuesday. The cartoon sparked a heated debate among journalists, elected officials and community leaders about the appropriateness of comparing an African-American president to a primate. Gov. David A. Paterson, who had the cartoon described to him during a news conference in Manhattan, said it is incumbent upon Post editors to explain “what the cartoon was intended to portray.” Images of black people portrayed as primates, Paterson said, “do feed a kind of negative and stereotypical way that some people think.” -Click here to see photos of the NYC protests against the Post’s chimp cartoon “The Post should at best clarify what point they were try
At the moment, Sean did NOT get fired, and the Newspaper “sort of” apologized. But if the Bad PR goes on, Sean could get fired. The sort of apologized in a way where they didn’t apologize for the “idea” of the cartoon, only to those who were offended by what the money was portraying. ======== More on the apology: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-popost2012477178feb20,0,6753767.story The New York Post apologized last night – sort of – for its controversial editorial cartoon that many saw as portraying President Barack Obama as a chimpanzee. The paper posted a statement on its Web site under the heading “That Cartoon” reiterating its support of the cartoon’s content while apologizing “to those who were offended by the image.” But the paper wasn’t so charitable to its real or perceived enemies in the media or “in public life who have had differences with The Post i
