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    Racist "Stimulus" Cartoon Unnerves NYC

    February 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM
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    New Yorkers are outraged this afternoon.  The New York Post published a cartoon [28] depicting two NYPD white police officers shooting [to death] a black chimpanzee on a city sidewalk.  The caption above the cartoon reads:  They'll Have to Find Someone Else to Write the Next Stimulus Bill.  Hey, I know the Republicans refused to support Obama's Stimulus Package and I know millions of Americans have been bamboozled by a tradition of blatant racism even in the 21st century, but this is horridly ridiculous.  And I'm sorry, there's no way to interpret a cartoon like this except as racist filth.  Murder, Stimulus Bill, White Cops?  The cartoonist and the newspaper should be bulldozed.

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