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02.23.2009 1:58 pm

Guest blog: What makes for a good conversation about race

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Below is a guest blog from Jonathan Smith, acting chair and assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at St. Louis University.

Smith’s column is in response to a Feb. 19 blog item by Kurt Greenbaum — “Living up to…

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02.20.2009 10:13 am

New York Post “apologizes” for chimpanzee cartoon

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The New York Post has apologized for the chimpanzee cartoon. If you consider what follows to be an apology. Under an online headline “That Cartoon,” the Post offers:

Wednesday’s Page Six cartoon - caricaturing Monday’s police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut…

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02.19.2009 10:14 pm

Was the chimp cartoonist a victim of subconscious indoctrination?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In its ongoing discussion about the controversial New York Post chimp cartoon, Wednesday’s edition of Richard Prince’s Journalisms looked at the historical correlation between blacks and monkeys.

Kyra Phillips with “CNN Newsroom” recited text from a theological-based 1867 piece titled “The Negro: What…

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02.19.2009 1:02 pm

NY Post cartoon was topic of online chat

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The flap over the New York Post’s cartoon depicting a police officer who has just shot a chimp and another saying, “they’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill” is big, and not just on this…

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02.18.2009 12:23 pm

Political cartoon of chimp is being called racist

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A political cartoon in today’s New York Post is being called racist.  At the least, it would seem to qualify as tasteless.

St. Petersburg Times media critic Erics Deggans writes in his blog:

Is this cartoon racist?

Riddle me this: the New York…

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