News Corp Forms Diversity Council Following New York Post Chimp Cartoon
News Corp. has agreed to form an external diversity council after meeting with civil rights groups about a New York Post cartoon that critics said lik...
News Corp. has agreed to form an external diversity council after meeting with civil rights groups about a New York Post cartoon that critics said lik...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011
The loud demands will continue that Murdoch back up his kind of sort of apology with real action. But he won't. There's simply too much money in racial trash talk.
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011
The fact that Col Allan is now being hung out to dry, and his obituary written, over a cartoon, is more mind blowing to Allan than to anyone else.
Jehmu Greene | Posted 05.25.2011
A cartoon is misinterpreted and black organizations see an opportunity to make noise. Meanwhile, Rihanna is beat down by Chris Brown and commentary in the black community is, "What did she do to cause it?"
Emil Wilbekin | Posted 05.25.2011
Plain and simple, Black folks don't like to be compared to animals -- especially nonhuman primate mammals.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.25.2011
If you research the earlier work of New York Post cartoonist Sean Delona, it's clear that he's a right wing bigot who routinely dehumanizes people from different viewpoints and cultures.
Bakari Kitwana | Posted 05.25.2011
This cartoon's arrival on newsstands is way out of step with the times. Regardless of its intention, it reinforces the notion that national conversations on race are long over due.
Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 05.25.2011
In calling Americans "cowards," Attorney General Holder undermines his very goal of helping us to become a more just society.
Baratunde Thurston | Posted 05.25.2011
Although the release of another racist cartoon can be seen as repetitive, annoying and a distraction, I'm glad at the opportunity this moment gives us.
New York Post | Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
This evening, the New York Post issued a half-apology for Wednesday's notorious stimulus/chimp cartoon which inspired outraged among many readers. Th...
Lee Camp | Posted 05.25.2011
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
In the page preceding a New York Post cartoon that depicts drafters of the stimulus legislation as a gun-downed chimpanzee, the paper published a larg...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
A cartoon likening the author of the stimulus bill, perhaps President Barack Obama, with a rabid chimpanzee graced the pages of the New York Post on W...
AP | JESSE WASHINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011