Oh boy, here we go again.   Al Sharpton is on the warpath over the cartoon in the New York Post.   I seen the cartoon on the news this morning and I guess it’s how you look at it.    Yes, technically Obama wrote the stimulus package, so if you think of it that way, it could be seen as saying that Obama is a chimp, but if you realize that after Obama wrote it, it went to Congress and congress put their fingers all over it, then it went back to Obama and back and forth.   It’s really kind of up in the air now, who wrote the current stimulus.   When I seen the cartoon, I immediately thought of Congress, not Obama.   I’m sorry but Congress does remind me of a pack of chimps.   Dangle a banana in front of a member of congress and they will do what’s demanded to get it, just like a chimp.   If a member of congress doesn’t get his/her way, they have a fit and start going ape.

I think the cartoon is kind of funny and when you think of it as directed at congress, it makes sense.   I also agree with the New York Post when they said Al Sharpton is just a  publicity opportunist.  

I also feel that when people make a big deal out of this type of thing, it just makes it worse.   Like on Jay Leno one night, Jay told a joke that was basically directed at white people and Kevin who is African American, made the comment that there was no way he could have told that joke.   Jay in turn said that’s okay, there’s jokes you can tell that I can’t.    Why is it okay for an African American to make a derogatory joke about African Americans?    If Al Sharpton is going to jump up and scream when a white person makes a derogatory joke, he needs to start jumping up when it’s an African American doing it too.

Now go back to the cartoon in the New York Post and look at it as if it was directed at the machinations of congress and how things work there.   I also think if we ever want true equality here, we need to start looking at jokes for what they are, jokes.