Racist Cartoon?

For any of you who haven't observed the controversy yet: 
New York Post Political Cartoon

Apparently, Al Sharpton and the rest of the attention seeking Racism Alert crew are all getting worked up about a cartoon depicting two police officers having shot a monkey with a caption lampooning the stimulus package.  For those of you who aren't familiar, a few days back a woman was mauled by a chimpanzee that went berserk.  When it tore the door off of a responding officer's cruiser, he shot the chimp multiple times with his 9mm service pistol and it ran away, dying shortly after of its wounds.

For those of you not familiar with the linguistic custom of mindlessness to be equated to monkeys, I'd like to remind you of that part of our heritage.  If you put a monkeys in a room with a typewriter blah blah you'll get Shakespeare.  Is that saying about black people?  No.  It's about monkeys randomly banging on a typewriter producing Shakespeare, eventually.  Mindlessness.  Code monkey--slang for the job of low-level programmers' jobs writing boring, tedious code.  Is it slang for black programmers?  No.  It's slang for the mindlessness of the position.  What does it mean when you are monkeying around?  Does it mean you are pretending to be black?  Hell no.  It means you're not being productive, you're just mindlessly doing whatever.

So now that you're familiar with these non-racist concepts, it should be fairly obvious that the cartoon (which you can see at the link provided at the start of this entry) is meant to combine the two current events together:
- Lady mauled by chimp being shot
- Stimulus package that conservatives consider...you guessed it...misguided and mindless

The cartoon is only racist if you are looking for it to be.  Every time anything can be twisted or seen in a racist light, in come the Anti-Racism Brigade being as loud as possible.  Guys, chill.  Your cause prevailed like 35 years ago.  I'm 22 years old and I cannot remember a world where race was a big deal unless old people were actively making it one.  Just because you folks are living in the past doesn't mean that you share the same relevance in the present.  Are these jokers just addicted to the lime light or something?  Have they been crusading for so long that they're just blind to realizing the world they wanted is the world we're largely in?

If they're going to continue to make a big deal out of everything, we'll never be able to completely move on.  Seriously guys, there's no big deal with this article.  Why make a soap opera out of it?