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Originally Posted by KSig RC
We're all familiar with the use of ape/monkey/gorilla imaging to debase blacks in the United States, but this is clearly a reference to the monkey that ate a woman's hands and nose in Stamford.
This is kind of an interesting situation, in my mind - Obama is the President, but authored about zero percent of the stimulus bill. Is his standing as President enough to invoke racial overtones in the cartoon regardless? (Clearly there will be a subtext of some degree no matter what)
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So the cartoon is attempting to convey that this stimulus bill is a wild, untamed, animal comparable to that chimpanzee that bit off both of her hands and destroyed her face. OK. I can see that.
But, as you acknowledged, I do think that people are well aware of possible racial (over and under) tones seeing as though Obama is the "face" of this stimulus bill.