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Honestly? I didn't get any racial implication to it until all the noise started. Didn't cross my mind that the dead chimp in the cartoon might be implied to be Obama. I assumed the cartoon was saying "That stimulus bill, man, it's like it was written by a monkey." So, I didn't think it was funny, but I didn't think it was racist. That said, offense is in the eyes of the offended. "I didn't mean it to be..." is a pretty lame response to someone who is genuinely offended by something that was even accidentally implied.
I agree about the general assessment of Al Sharpton found in this thread, though. He's not helping really much of anything. I strongly suspect that "genuinely offended" isn't something he can be said to be, most of the time.
Is it racist to say "Obama is a monkey" and not racist (or at least not equally offensive) to say "Bush is a monkey"? Absolutely goddamn right it is. Anyone who would say otherwise is as insane as Sharpton, just the other direction.
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