NAACP Fights to Remain Relevant

Well, folks, it looks like we've come full circle.

This blog began one day when I felt obligated to put my two cents in regarding one of Spike Lee's prior racial crusades, and now I return briefly from my medical hiatus--in spite of quite a bit of pain--to put yet another pair of Lincolns in on this ridiculous subject of a certain NY Post cartoon.

Due to the pain I'll get right to the point: It's much ado about nothing.

It's clear that the NAACP is flailing about at this, the most flimsiest of causes, in an effort to remain relevant. I suppose, once a "colored person" rose to become the duly-elected President of the United States, the "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" felt that their advancement agenda was somehow threatened. At least, that's the only explanation I can come up with at this point for why they'd go all-out on this NY Post cartoon "issue" without thinking it through.

The cartoon depicts the wayward chimp from recent news getting gunned down by police as one says "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill." I'm no fan of the Murdoch Empire, but I have to stick my neck out in this case. The NAACP would like for us to believe that the cartoon is making a racially-charged statement about President Obama, but that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Everyone knows that the legislature writes the laws, not the President; although the President can submit items of legislation to members of the legislature for consideration and possible introduction. We all know that Barack Obama did not write the stimulus package. Hell, it's likely that members of Congress didn't even write it. It was written by lawyers, bureaucrats, and lobbyists just like most other pieces of legislation these days.

The verdict? The cartoonist was alluding to the common cliche about terrible writers: "I bet a room full of monkeys wrote this."

The NAACP jumped the gun, but have they also jumped the shark?