Columnist Roland Martin calls cartoon racist

[lordlundar]

It's racist because it IS racist. It is WELL known, in the US at least, that referring to a black person as a monkey, chimp, ape, etc. etc. is a racial slur.

Yea we expect him to get mocked. He's a politician. And not just a politician. He's the president. He'll be the most mocked politician in America. But that's just not the way mock someone.

Funny, I didn't see any reference to getting another black man to draft the bill, nor did I see any direct label of Obama on the monkey.

I did notice you cutting out the third point I made though. Do you honestly think that if the stories didn't occur during Bush Jr.'s reign the comic wouldn't have been done? I would have seen it as MORE likely, and those same people howling with laughter claiming it's true.

This was just tying in two unrelated stories together. There was no direct reference to obama and no connection of the monkey to a black person, real or implied. Any racist tones that are perceived are simply those of the reader.

[Evandril]

By the title of the thread, I was primed to see something racist..So my first thought was the 'monkey-black' connection. If I hadn't been looking, no clue if I'd have made the same connection *shrugs* People find what they are looking for.