I'm glad everyone on the internet and on planet earth is raising righteous hell about the New York Post's racism. Racism matters, thank the Goddess.
Yes, I do have to ask: When will the sexism matter?
Answer: Not until women have an equal or greater than equal share of the power -- which is why that misogynistic election was so damn important for women and girls and the brothers, sons and fathers who actually give a shit.
In the meantime, we sure could use our own female version of Al Sharpton.
TMZ:
Before most of you woke up, Sharpton already fired off a statement saying, "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?"
Calls to the Post have not been returned.
UPDATE: The editor-in-chief of the NY Post just released this statement: "The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington's efforts to revive the economy. Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist."
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