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The controversial cartoonist Delonas stirred again the attention, by publishing in the Wednesday New York Post a drawing where a chimp shot by the police - some links with a recent case of an aggressive chimp killed in Connecticut - is lying in a plash of blood. By the remark of one of the policemen - "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill") the US president it is likened with an ape, an image with deep roots in the racist imaginary of the recent history of the United States.
The newspaper defended as a parody of Washington politics and outlined that, in fact it is about the Connecticut chimp case. Civil right activist Al Sharpton, target as well of Delonas' cartoons, said that:
The newspaper defended as a parody of Washington politics and outlined that, in fact it is about the Connecticut chimp case. Civil right activist Al Sharpton, target as well of Delonas' cartoons, said that:
"The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African Americans as being synonymous with monkeys".
On the other side, Jonathan Chait, from the New Republic pretends "Sometimes a Monkey is Just a Monkey".
And for us, to add: Sometimes a bad taste is just a bad taste.
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