"Yesterday, the NY Post ran an editorial cartoon depicting an unarmed, gorilla-like primate on the ground; being shot by two law enforcement officers. The caption indicated that the gorilla represented the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama.
Such a blatantly racist cartoon is not only highly disrespectful but it is also dangerously suggestive. Sadly, we know that far to many unarmed Black men have been murdered, shot to death, by law enforcement officers all across the Country." Dukes said.
"There is no signature or byline on the cartoon, showing further the usual shameful cowardice of those who are responsible; and the complicity of the entire Post staff who published it. This a new low, even for the Post." She continued.
"We remember only too well, the link between such racist stereotypes of years gone by that led to the humiliation, degradation and brutal assaults on Black citizens everywhere." said Dukes.
How ironic the celebration of African American history and the NAACP 100th Anniversary, further that one of the founders of the NAACP 100 years ago was a journalist and the publisher/owner of the New York Evening Post, Oswald Garrison Villard, a white man who was the grandson of abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison. He even donated space in The Post to issue the "call" to the formation meeting for the NAACP. He must be spinning in his grave.
Such a blatantly racist cartoon is not only highly disrespectful but it is also dangerously suggestive. Sadly, we know that far to many unarmed Black men have been murdered, shot to death, by law enforcement officers all across the Country." Dukes said.
"There is no signature or byline on the cartoon, showing further the usual shameful cowardice of those who are responsible; and the complicity of the entire Post staff who published it. This a new low, even for the Post." She continued.
"We remember only too well, the link between such racist stereotypes of years gone by that led to the humiliation, degradation and brutal assaults on Black citizens everywhere." said Dukes.
How ironic the celebration of African American history and the NAACP 100th Anniversary, further that one of the founders of the NAACP 100 years ago was a journalist and the publisher/owner of the New York Evening Post, Oswald Garrison Villard, a white man who was the grandson of abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison. He even donated space in The Post to issue the "call" to the formation meeting for the NAACP. He must be spinning in his grave.
Hazel N. Dukes, President
NAACP New York State Conference
39 Broadway, 22 Floor
New York, New York 10006
212-344-7474 Ext. 103
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