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Cartoons consisting of racial undertones aimed at African-Americans are nothing new. The last attempt that made prominent news throughout the media was one published by the New York Post back in February. It depicted the police shooting dead Travis the Chimp then them saying, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.” This blatantly insensitive satire manifests the historic attack of African-Americans – specifically our President, Barack Obama – being synonymous with monkeys. Of course, there were "people" who urgently defended this monstrosity as innocently portraying current politics without any harmful intention. Consequently, it only further insults African-American critics’ intelligence and is simultaneously laughable. How many imbeciles do they really think they’ll truly beguile with such uttered swill? However, when cartoons are very apparent with their racism it only makes them more easily forgettable for their ignorance while others are tactfully less egregious. Disney’s upcoming 2009 American animated family feature film, The Princess and the Frog, is a little more subliminal with its approach.
