The Post's Post-Racial Politics
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.
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Coming off of a tone-deaf cartoon that compared the author of the stimulus bill with a crazed, shot-dead chimpanzee, it seemed likely that, for the ti...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media
The mood inside the New York Post, it seems, is a mix of anger and bewilderment that the paper published a cartoon depicting the authors of the stimul...
Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media
The New York Post has issued a statement defending its stimulus/chimp cartoon and slamming Rev. Al Sharpton for protesting the piece. Here's the full...
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...
Bakari Kitwana | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media