do you think the Obama editorial cartoon has been exaggerated.?

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I think it was a political statement not a racist one.
Maybe they were thinking that the bill was a monkey decision.
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I think this is one of those tough questions with a catch 22. Kinda like your wife or girlfriend asking if she is fat. No matter what good intentions you may have...it's best not to have an opinion.
 
I saw the cartoon and had to be asked “who does the monkey represent”? I never thought it was Obama! This knee jerk reaction to call everything under the sun racist is pathetic. Does racism exist? Of course it does and I don’t expect it will perish anytime soon as long as we perceive everything as a matter of being racial. I’m surprised no one is boycotting the billiard industry. What? You don’t see the racism in the green table representing the earth? The fact that the WHITE ball knocks the YELLOW ball off the table, then the RED ball. Then the game is won when the white ball knocks the BLACK ball off the table. Hmmmmm? Obviously everyone who plays pool is racist right?!

Or maybe someone just likes to play the game and maybe someone saw the cartoon and didn’t see Obama in the cartoon. Maybe the people who see racism are infact racist themselves and just looking for pudding heads to agree with them.

That's my honest answer!
 
It's really a bad situation all around. Where's the humor? It was racist because it shows two cops shooting a gorilla (Obama). What's worst the cops shooting or Obama as a gorilla. It was implied that he wrote the stimulus package. The chimp attack was a real tragedy because the chimp was killed and the poor woman had her face ripped off and and her hands destroyed by that beast.
 
What's the political statement? That it's OK to assassinate the president because he signed off on a bill that not everyone agrees with? I think some might be pushing it with the monkey = African Americans deal because they likely aren't associating it with the recent event involving the animal, but still. It was very classless.

For the record, I don't agree with the movie made in the UK about Bush either.
 
I think whatever the intentions of the cartoon may have been, you can't ignore the historical racist associations and connotations of the cartoon. If the trajectory of our history was different and racist drawings and thought likening black people to baboons and apes never happened, then this wouldn't be an issue. On a different note: I think this a prime example of stupidity on the part of so many people. The editors made a really bad decision. And for those who defend it as satire, well, let's just say it's intelligence level has sunk down to lowest common denominator which sadly seems to be case in so many aspects of American life like TV (it's hard to believe people waste their time watching things like "The Real Housewives" or so many other like minded sh*T), music, literature (although i cringe to call genres like "chic lit" anything remotely resembling literature). Good satire should exude irony, intelligence, subtlety. This cartoon is ignorant of past associations and is as subtle as a sledgehammer.
 
I think whatever the intentions of the cartoon may have been, you can't ignore the historical racist associations and connotations of the cartoon. If the trajectory of our history was different and racist drawings and thought likening black people to baboons and apes never happened, then this wouldn't be an issue. On a different note: I think this a prime example of stupidity on the part of so many people. The editors made a really bad decision. And for those who defend it as satire, well, let's just say it's intelligence level has sunk down to lowest common denominator which sadly seems to be case in so many aspects of American life like TV (it's hard to believe people waste their time watching things like "The Real Housewives" or so many other like minded sh*T), music, literature (although i cringe to call genres like "chic lit" anything remotely resembling literature). Good satire should exude irony, intelligence, subtlety. This cartoon is ignorant of past associations and is as subtle as a sledgehammer.
 
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