Black History Month: The NYPOST and Murdoch

Ok, so this morning I woke up and turned on the radio to listen to the Tom Joyner Morning Show, a part of my daily routine. Needless to say, Tom and the gang were going on and on about a new political cartoon on the cover of The New York Post. They were discussing the issue with Rev. Al Sharpton who said this about the cartoon:

"The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual reference to this when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."
"Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?"

So, not only did I feel a sense of outrage just hearing the issues behind the cartoon, I had to see it myself, just to understand where they were coming from. And here it is, the picture that is causing so much anger and hate toward the New York Post:

Take a very close look at it. Read that caption, spoken by one white cop to another white cop. Notice how he makes these comments after he shoots the monkey. Now for any African American, this picture should ultimately piss you off!!! We have struggled for so long just to feel like an equal and even at a time when a Black man becomes the President of the United States of America, we still have to suffer. This is INSANE!!! Not only was a monkey, a racist attack that is synonomous to African Americans, used to either represent our President or Demicrats alike, but the caption stating that "someone else will have to write the stimulus bills" is a complete outrage!!! This artist, Sean Delonas, is way out of line. The sad thing is, some people are so blinded by the years of racism that they cant see the wrong in this drawing. I hate to think that this is what has come of the world and of media. Take notice to what The NY Post, Fox TV Network, 20th Century Fox, and the HarperCollins Books all have in common. They are all owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch is a hard-out Republican and he only hires Republicans to work for him. And besides a few sports comentators, all of his Fox News room is swimming in Repbulican losers!!!! Seriously though, this issue is real and its not going away, no matter who our President is....

WE NEED TO BOYCOTT THE NEW YORK POST

and make others aware of what is going on around us. We can just sit back and let people call us MONKEYS!! I dont know about you but I am not a monkey, my family arent monkeys, my friends arent monkey and my President damn sure isnt a MONKEY!!! So, in order for our voices to be heard, we have to do something.

"Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty." MLK

Until next blog, remember: BOYCOTT THE NEW YORK POST AND ALL OTHER MURDOCH AFFILIATES!!!!