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 03.27.2009 | Media
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.
Jehmu Greene | Posted 03.26.2009 | Media
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 03.26.2009 | Media
Plain and simple, Black folks don't like to be compared to animals -- especially nonhuman primate mammals.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
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.
Michael Wolff | Posted 03.26.2009 | Media
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.
Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media
In calling Americans "cowards," Attorney General Holder undermines his very goal of helping us to become a more just society.
Bakari Kitwana | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media
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.
New York Post | Huffington Post | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media
This evening, the New York Post issued a half-apology for Wednesday's notorious stimulus/chimp cartoon which inspired outraged among many readers. Th...
Baratunde Thurston | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
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.
Lee Camp | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
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 03.21.2009 | Media
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 07.11.2009 | Media