Super sensitivity to monkey allusions about Obama





Obama was NOT depicted as a monkey in the above cartoon but some saw the cartoon as a reference to a monkey -- so just that inference provoked a furore. It's true that Obama's features are distorted in the cartoon but that is what cartoons do.
"The editor of the University of New Mexico's student paper has apologized for a cartoon printed in the publication's Wednesday issue that was deemed racially insensitive by some students.

The cartoon, which was given the green light by Daily Lobo Editor Chris Quintana, depicted President Barack Obama holding Osama bin Laden's head in triumph, modeled after the classic scene from the Lion King in which Rafiki, a monkey, held baby Simba above his head.

The Daily Lobo itself reported that 30 students gathered on campus Wednesday to protest the depiction of Obama as a monkey

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Explicity depicting George Bush as a monkey is fine however

I think cartoons are generally accepted as protected free speech but there is no free speech at American universities, of course

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