New York Post har bedt om unnskyldning for tegningen av president Barack Obama som en sjimpanse som blir skutt av politiet. Men det holder ikke for interesseorganisasjonen NAACP, som krever både tegner og redaktør avsatt. NAACP mener tegningen er en oppfordring til attentat på presidenten.
NAACP har igangsatt en landsdekkende boikott av avisen.
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called on the tabloid to remove editor-in-chief Col Allan, as well as longtime cartoonist Sean Delonas.
Earlier this week, the newspaper apologized to anyone who might have been offended by the image printed Wednesday, which some say likens Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police in Connecticut.
Jealous said the cartoon was ”an invitation to assassination.”
On Thursday, after protests by notable figures including director Spike Lee, the paper posted an editorial on its Web site saying the cartoon was meant to mock the federal economic stimulus bill, but ”to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.”
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