N. Y. Post cartoon and racist attitudes

I hadn’t planned on writing a long post but I wanted to address the issue of the NY Post’s cartoon.

Many of you are aware of the cartoon in which police shoot a monkey, which is taken from a real incident in Connecticut recently. The caption of the cartoon says:

     

Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill.

I leave it to others to infer intent but there’s some research — below — that everyone should look at. And it comes in the form of a very short article on the Situationist and a tape of a Professor talking about her research.

http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/why-race-may-influence-us-even-when-we-know-it-doesn
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Author: colinski

Graduate of University of Colorado-Boulder