I don't know if it is overtly racist or not, although certainly anyone should know better, but I agree with others that the main point is using the chimpanzee attack in a cartoon, where the woman had her face eaten off supposedly, and a teams of doctors did surgery on her for 7 hours supposedly, is in such awful, absysmal taste..obscene. If it had been an ordinary chimp depiction, then we should have the racial discussion, but this is so way beyond that that other things have to be talked about first and foremost.

And read up on this chimp attack. Very little sympathy is expressed for the woman whose face was ripped off. Too much for the woman who kept a lethal animal in her house. I guess the sympathy for the chimp is reasonable, saying he should have been on a refuge for chimps or something.

So I think Sharpton et al should turn their energies into the appalling subtext of this and show their horror of this entire situation and let the racial discussion be tabled for now and brought up in a different situation. What I am saying is it was not one race or another, but the entire human race in this instance. mg