Monkey-See, Monkey Doo-Doo

Let’s see now.  A captive chimpanzee goes on a rage and critically injures someone.  It is fatally wounded by police.

Someone with both a sense of humor and a sense of outrage over the wreaking stench of pork emanating from our nation’s capital decides to draw a cartoon that uses dark humor to make their point:

Sean Delonas/New York Post

Do I have to spell it out for you?  The point here is that what comes out of Congress is no better than what would come out of a monkey assigned the same task.  And because that one monkey is now dead, we have to find another one to take its place.

Like most average Americans, it never occurred to me to see it as a slam against either blacks or against our half-black President.  As for it being seen as a call to assassinate our half-black President, well, frankly, a nutcase who wants to take him out will do so whether or not someone draws a political cartoon.  (Note this was said by someone who is named “Jealous”.  No joke.)

I find it very telling that those who most wish the world to be so similarly color-blind as me (and probably you, too) are now jumping up and down and screaming in outrage as they grab their crayons and connect the previously invisible dots so that the rest of us are forced to consider whether chimpanzees somehow equate to black people.  Those who most wish there were no lines between races are using a political cartoon to draw a big, fat one right down the middle of our lives.

The NAACP is now calling for a boycott of the NY Post and the firing of its editor and the cartoonist.

How do you spell “stupid”?  If you’re going to force me to consider the intelligence level of a chimpanzee versus a black person using this situation of creating divisiveness as the measure, well, I’m afraid the chimpanzee is going to come out on top.  Because there is no expectation that a chimpanzee has the cognitive skills to understand more than what it sees on the surface of something.

Like mama used to say, when you point your finger, there are three other fingers pointing right back at you.