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100 Blacks In Law Enforcement Who Care Reports On Thousands of New Yorkers Protesting The New York Post Cartoon Showing Cops Killing The U.S. President Obama
February 19, 2009
The protest was so unique primarily because it drew people of various
ethnic backgrounds. Cartoon are suppose to be funny, killing a monkey is
not funny nor is it funny to show Police of all people to do the shooting then you connect the monkey with the two is racist. We as Americans must move forward in order to get ahead.
If cartoons are going to be this funny, then we must not allow our children
to read the funnies anymore.
The NY Post are repeated offenders and must move forward. If Denny's
can, so can the NY Post.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 1:11 PM
To: Sullivan, Pat
Subject: Thank you for taking a stand. Please spread the word.
Dear Patricia,
Thank you for sending a powerful message of accountability to the New
York Post.
By taking action, you're helping to expose the Rupert Murdoch propaganda
machine and make it more accountable to Black folks and the public in
general. Can you take a minute to ask your friends and family to do the
same?
Below you will find a brief letter you can send. Personalize it as you
wish, or write your own, but please send it along right away. Also,
please only contact people who you know personally. Spam will hurt the
effort.
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Dear Friend,
Yesterday, the day after President Obama signed his stimulus bill into
law, the NY Post ran a cartoon depicting the bill's "author" as a dead
monkey, covered in blood after being shot by police. You can see the
image by clicking on the link below.
In the face of intense criticism, the Post's editor is standing by the
cartoon, claiming that it's not about Obama, has no racial undertones,
and that it was simply referencing a recent incident when police shot a
pet chimpanzee. But it's impossible to believe that any newspaper editor
could be ignorant enough to not understand how this cartoon evokes a
history of racist symbolism, or how frightening this image feels at a
time when death threats against President Obama have been on the rise.
Please join me and other ColorOfChange.org members in demanding that the
Post apologize publicly and fire the editor who allowed this cartoon to
go to print:
http://www.colorofchange.org/nypost/?id=2619-819303
The Post would have us believe that the cartoon is not about Obama.
But on the page just before the cartoon appears, there's a big picture
of Obama signing the stimulus bill. A reader paging through the Post
would see Obama putting pen to paper, then turn the page to see this
violent cartoon. The imagery is chilling.
There is a clear history in our country of racist symbolism that depicts
Black people as apes or monkeys, and it came up multiple times during
the presidential campaign.
We're also in a time of increased race-based violence. In the months
following President Obama's election there has been a nationwide surge
in hate crimes ranging from vandalism to assaults to arson on Black
churches. There has been an unprecedented number of threats against
President Obama since he was elected, with hate-based groups fantasizing
about the killing of the president. Just a week ago, a man drove from
Louisiana to the Capitol with a rifle, telling the police who stopped
him that he had a "delivery" for the president.
There is no excuse for the Post to have allowed this cartoon to be
printed, and even less for Editor Col Allan's outright dismissal of
legitimate concerns.
But let's be clear who's behind the Post: Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch, the
Post's owner, is the man behind FOX News Channel. FOX has continually
attacked and denigrated Black people, politicians, institutions at every
opportunity, and ColorOfChange has run several campaigns to make clear
how FOX poisons public debate.
I don't expect much from Murdoch. However, with enough public pressure,
we can set the stage for advertisers and subscribers to think long and
hard before patronizing outlets like the Post that refuse to be held
accountable.
You can help, by making clear that the Post's behavior is unacceptable,
and by asking your friends and family to do the same.
Please join me:
http://www.colorofchange.org/nypost/?id=2619-819303
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