Feb 21 2009
Obama Monkey Video Hits Youtube - see it now
I really didn’t like this sketch,, but -
When I saw this video I was totally pissed..
YouTube has some very ignorant stuff, if you look for it. this was easily located while I was doing a search for news on the monkey cartoon; from the new york post. this video was at the top of the list; and never did I go back to look for the news broadcast videos, from the NYC Market. that’s what I was really looking for; before I found this trash.
Yeah I’m a lil pissed, after looking at it. but there is something that needs to be said that I’ve read over and over; but until I saw it in the beginning of this video - didn’t matter at all.
how did the shrub’s folks feel when he was compared by the same website to a monkey? probably not too happy either..
it’s a matter of class, personal taste and preference from what I see.
some folks feel like it’s a national insult, to publicly draw comparisons between a monkey and the president. it is, in my opinion. Even when Bush was president, I compared him to a bush or a shrub; occassionally some discarded fecal matter; but never a living animal. I have much more respect for animals than to do that. besides jackals don’t need any advertising. they are doing quite fine on wallstreet and in DC from what I see on the news each evening.
still I wonder why it appears more vociferous when it’s the monkey being shot by two white cops ? could that added element of seeing the white man with a gun be the real trigger for this anguish ?
America, When Will We Become Bigger Than This ?
With the cartoon - I realize it was relative and all (with the monkey escaping out the jail and all) but there’s just too many other ways that it could be interpreted. It’s a loaded image, and the author knew what he was doing as he drew it.
With that video? Well shoot I guess you could prolly find pictures of monkeys striking poses of all our presidents.
This was really a mess. I don’t buy the statement issued to explain this cartoon one bit. I think we understood the insult the way it was intended to be relayed.
Davida
across the board, everybody was offended. so they did the right thing by apologizing. however they need to set a policy, and be sanctioned for this blantant racist statement - from the media community.
there is no longer time to look the other way, at incidents like this in 2009.. Racism is what it is, Violence.