Saturday, February 21, 2009

If you're LOOKING for racism, you'll find it.

The NAACP is calling for Sean Delonas, the cartoonist for the NY Post, to be fired.
Really?
I'm assuming by now everyone has seen the cartoon. And if not, find it somewhere else.
This whole thing is getting way out of hand. Having seen the picture, I can see how one could POSSIBLY see the cartoon as being racist. But I also see how it was in NO WAY intended to be racist. In the official apology, the NY Post said it was sorry if was offensive, it really wasn't meant to be, but it thinks "some" people who are upset are just making a stink because they already hate the Post and its parent company: News Corp. The NAACP took that to mean "everyone" who is upset and is calling for a boycott of News Corp and all of its subsidiaries (including Fox and Fox News).
WHY???
This whole situation is RIDICULOUS.
1) The cartoon was obviously not saying "Obama is an ape," nor was it supporting violence towards him. It was a lame, unoriginal "politicians are stupid monkeys" joke that made light of a tragic situation involving a woman mauled by a chimp. It was a stupid cartoon. Not racist. Besides, most of the people who actually wrote the legislation were WHITE.
2) They apologized for the fact that it appeared racist, as that was not the intent. They already apologized, get over it.
3) Last I checked, we have a little something in this country called the "First Amendment."
This is such a NON-issue, it just needs to die.