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A political cartoon in the New York Post Wednesday that portrayed the author of the US economic recovery plan as a monkey was denounced as offensive by black civil rights leader Al Sharpton.
The cartoon, which ran on page 12 of the tabloid, showed a policeman killing a monkey, a reference to an incident in Connecticut Monday when an officer shot dead a chimpanzee that had seriously injured a woman.
In the drawing, another police officer comments: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."
Sharpton called the cartoon "troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys."
"Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African-American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?" he asked in a statement.
Col Allan, the Post's editor-in-chief, defended the cartoon as "a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington's efforts to revive the economy.
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