Sunday, February 22, 2009

NAACP considered a caricature of a dead monkey appeal to the assassination of Obama.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called on Americans not to buy the newspaper New York Post, reports Associated Press. The reason for this was the publication of newspaper cartoons depicting the police killed the monkey.

The head of NAACP Benjamin Todd Dzhelousa (Benjamin Todd Jealous), a cartoon - a "call to murder" for U.S. President Barack Obama. Head of NAACP also announced that due to the caricature scandal to resign must submit the editor in chief of New York Post Number Allan (Col Allan) and author of the picture Sean Delonas (Sean Delonas).

Plots for the cartoon that caused the scandal, was the story of trained chimpanzees get into a wax aggressors of his hostess girlfriend. The police was forced to shoot an aggressive animal. The figure, published in the New York Post, was killed depicts a monkey and two policemen, one of whom said: "Now to look for another to create a plan for keeping the economy." This phrase and has become an occasion to charge the newspaper for incitement to assassination attempt on the president of the USA. A few days before the publication of caricatures of Barak Obama Administration submitted to Congress a plan to rescue the U.S. economy.

The day after the publication of cartoons of the New York Post editorial was a protest of opponents of racism. The newspaper has already apologized to all those offended caricature, noting that the scandal around the figure was inflated by opponents of old editions, thus trying to keep score.

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