NY Post is missing a link

I tend to be overly forgiving when it comes to gaffes, faux-pas, and general stupidity, but I have to send a back-of-head smack to the NY Post's ed-in-chief Col Allan on this one. I'm going to give a pass to cartoonist Sean Delonas, because a cartoonist is bound to create images that push the envelope. That's what they do.

But, Allan, old chap, the reason you have a job with the word "EDITOR" stenciled on your door, is because you have the good sense to balance the statement-making with good taste and sensitivity. You went to college, and a very good one I'd imagine. You sat through similar English classes as I did, learning all about metaphors, and the same history classes, getting a in-depth education on the colorful colloquialisms of the racist along with the lectures on the Civil Rights movement. And if you skipped those classes to play hacky-sack on the lawn of the administration building, surely you must have caught a few episodes of "All in the Family." You have to know the hot button insults and innuendos. People are talking a lot about a "post-racial" America, which the election of Obama has ushered in, but I think some have mis-interpreted the idea. This doesn't mean that we are in a cultural free-for-all where racial jokes can be bandied about and no one is allowed get offended.

Yes, the political cartoonist's job is to poke holes in egos of the talking heads that run this place, but the cartoon that Allan let slip by him isn't just offensive. It lazy. It's a cheap laugh for some, and a great way to stir up some controversy. But it really flushes my respect for the cartoonist as a thinker and Allan as a editor.