[SprCForr]

Are you going to take it back?

[CanadianJeff]

Yeah that comic is uncalled for. Racist maybe, maybe not but it is totally uncalled for.

[saturn_656]

Some double standard you are all pushing.

I'd be embarrassed to claim this as "racist" considering its the EXACT same treatment that Bush, a white man, has been getting for YEARS.

[Scape]

But why even go there when they know they are strolling through a social minefield? It's NOT the same as a black man calling another black man 'nigger'. I think even if they were trying to be funny it sent the wrong message, one that even Archie Bunker could see it would have been easily misconstrued. The editor needs to be fired.

[Pseudonym]

I like how it suddenly became racist because Al Sharpton called it such. There was no connection to Obama's ethnicity in the artist's mind, and neither in the mind of the paper's editors, and now there is. Congratulations. You just set us back again.

[Tricks]

Scape Scape:

porch monkey

Is calling a white man a monkey the same as calling a black man one?

It's cool, we're taking it back.

[Tricks]

SprCForr SprCForr:

Are you going to take it back?

AW! Beat me to it!

[xerxes]

Pseudonym Pseudonym:

I like how it suddenly became racist because Al Sharpton called it such. There was no connection to Obama's ethnicity in the artist's mind, and neither in the mind of the paper's editors, and now there is. Congratulations. You just set us back again.

Since when Al Sharpton the arbiter of what's racist and what's not? I didn't even know Al Sharpton had announced his opinion the fist I saw the cartoon this afternoon.

[Pseudonym]

Feel free to judge the man by what you want to think he is saying as opposed to what he is actually saying.

[Proculation]

I think those are the people who are seeing a diffenrece because of the skin colour of Obama who are racist.

It reminds me of the South Park episode about the town flag.

[Pseudonym]

I'm afraid Marx's cigar looks like it is about to set his beard on fire. You might want to check that.

[WildDevastator]

yeah well what is the first sentence that comes to mind when you see the cartoon?

[Pseudonym]

WildDevastator WildDevastator:

yeah well what is the first sentence that comes to mind when you see the cartoon?

First thought:
Hey, wasn't there a story about some police shooting a chimpanzee that I heard on the radio yesterday?
Second thought:
I really hate the stimulus bill.
Third thought:
This is racist? Ooooooooh. I better read the article to figure out what's going on.

[ridenrain]

Proculation Proculation:

I think those are the people who are seeing a diffenrece because of the skin colour of Obama who are racist.

It reminds me of the South Park episode about the town flag.

Quite agree. Once again, South Park is proven to be the morality play of modern times.

As stated earlier, thousand monkeys on a thousand keyboards. No racist overtones except those you bring with you.

[Scape]

I did not even hear about the chimp being shot. I thought they were doing a Rodney King shtick.