New York Post has insulted Obama by referring the President as a chimpanzee. A photo of Obama signing the stimulus bill appeared in Tuesday’s Post, one page before the cartoon. Readers of New York Post who turned the page went right from Obama photo to the chimpanzee comic.
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Remember the controversial situation a few months ago where the Spanish Basketball team made slanty-eyed impressions of Asians?
If you’re unfamiliar with the event, you can read it here: http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/basketball/news/story?id=3532682
The OCA (representing Asians) stated disappointment, but almost everyone in voting polls said it wasn’t a big deal.
Some say the Asians were being too sensitive and that the Spaniards weren’t mocking them. But the very fact that the Spaniards were seen laughing as they did such impressions, implied that they found such looks ‘funny’ or ‘entertaining’. We’ve all been to elementary school, and such impressions were almost always made to insult or tease the poor Asian kid.
Now a similar situation happens to the African-American community (a much larger than the Asian community in the US), and it immediately causes an uproar. Because as we know, there are strength in numbers. The Black community has grown in numbers, and I’m happy for them. But other minorities don’t have that strength, so it is viewed that if we choose to mock them, there’s nothing they can do about it.
This very example proves the discrimination against minorities.
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