Amy Goodman Covers Protest Against the New York Post Racist Cartoon 2/19/09

Protests are continuing today outside the offices of the New York Post following the publication of a cartoon that critics say depicts President Obama as a chimpanzee. The cartoon shows a white police officer shooting dead a chimpanzee in the street. His partner, another white officer, says, Theyll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.
After a number of civil rights activists and organizations called for a boycott of the paper, the Post issued an apology of sorts last night.

The apology said in part QUOTE It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill. Period. But it has been taken as something else - as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism. This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize. However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past - and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback. To them, no apology is due.
On Thursday the Rev. Al Sharpton led a protest outside the offices of the Post. These are some of the voices from the protest.

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[rachelgolem]

Dear Ms. Goodman, I would like express my deepest condolences on the loss of your beloved Osama.

[sshers1]

hay am a muslim and i live in UK and i was watching this and i was thinking to myself in UK black people never fight with white people....?

[kmsmith1210]

@viperacr133 Oh really????? It's a well known fact that blacks have been KILLED going into white neighborhoods...

[viperacr133]

@drexelur1 Do blacks get beat up when the go into white "hoods"....NO, but its true the other way around.

[MrDjSeamless325]

@drexelur1 amen brother

[cfuller2k9]

I'm white and tired of being lumped in with this massive racist prick group . saying i have anyhting to do with it is a stereotype . When people stop playing the race card things will be better . Not all white americans are racist .

[circask8team]

@drexelur1 you will never understand the big picture cause your just not black and you will never get it you know wy because your white and your ancestors have being doing these things snse forever so fuck off

[drexelur1]

Blacks have just got to get over it. They are the most racist people there is, yet whine the most about racism. In Philly, where I live, there were numerous incidents where Asian students were attacked by blacks because of race. It is blacks who are the real racists. Screw 'em!

[HeadToucher]

You dumb idiot, WHITES ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE MOST RACIST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. First, theres no such thing as race, thats something you anglo-saxions made up to divide people. Also we didn't start the fire. Im not racist against Whites cause there's NO such thing as a White person-its a fantasy! But its funny how a coward bitch like yourself claims "blacks" are racist while being racist yourself.

[xxbruschix54xx]

pause at 0:37. DOES THAT SAY RACIST PEOPLE SUCK?!?!?

blacks are the biggest racists in the entire world. there whining, uninteligent (proven) racist, predjidice, angry, violnt, degrading people.