Response to Post Cartoon

The New York Post published a cartoon some time ago portraying the creator of the economic stimulus package as a monkey that had been shot by police. I found that to be in very poor taste given the racist connotation that image holds, especially when Pres. Obama, an African American, was heavily involved with drafting the stimulus package. I am also disappointed that the Post, one of the older and more reputed news publications in our country, would lower itself to printing something like that. It could be suggested that the use of the monkey was suggesting ineptitude on the part of the government as a whole and not directed specifically at Pres. Obama, however the Post is not an amateurish publication and therefore should have better oversight than to allow something like this to be published.