About that New York Post cartoon...

Getting a lot of e-mails asking me what I think of the cartoon the Post ran. Meh. I think it is what is. A bad cartoon. And a bad joke. Here's Sharpton:

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.

So say we all. Can we get back to grown folk business now?

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/02/about-that-new-york-post-cartoon/6751/