Last week, maybe the week before, the New York Post had a cartoon that showed cops shooting a chimp. It was right after police had to kill the ape living with that woman in Jersey (thinking about it...if your an ape, living with a spinster in Jersey, you were probably praying for someone to put you out of your misery).

In the comic strip, one of the officers says something like "Now they'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."

Everyone cried racism. And it gave Al Sharpton, the biggest racist and idiot on the planet, yet more talk shows to spew his garbage. Unfortunately, this time, I agreed with him.

Rupert Murdoch even got involved, as Chairman for the New York Post, saying he is responsible. He apologized for anyone offended, said it was a mistake, and that it wasn't meant to be racist, only to mock a badly written piece of legislature.

To me, the biggest problem with it, was that it wasn't a funny cartoon. On a lot of different levels. And how can you say it's not racist?

Believe me, I'm the first to complain about blacks that want to play the race card. Because, they always seem to do it.

I was downtown with my girlfriend last week, and we were coming out of our first dog training class. It was dark, and I heard noise behind me as we're getting in the car. I looked behind me, and there's a tall black guy walking up. And, I did what I always do when I make eye contact with a person on the street. I smiled. To me, anything else, is rude.

He then started saying something to me, but I couldn't hear him. As we sat down, he walked by my car and continued. My girlfriend said, "He's saying that you don't need to look at him, he wasn't going to rob you and that he has a job, just like you."

It then became a big fight between us, because I made a comment she deemed highly racist and offensive. I said, "See? That's what I mean. Blacks are always jumping to these conclusions, and using faulty logic." The fight lasted for two days!

Another story popped up, out of Los Alamitos. The mayor sent out an email that shows the White House lawn, planted with watermelons. The title says "No Easter egg hunt this year."

When a woman complained, an apology was issued. But get this...Mayor Dean Grose said he was unaware of the racial stereotype that black people like watermelons.

So, what I'd like to ask this dimwit is...well, first I'd ask him how he doesn't know about a stereotype like that? I'd find out what stereotypes he WAS familiar with. I'd say "Have you heard that people say Jews are cheap? What about Polish people being stupid?"

I'd see what he does and doesn't "know." I'm sure he'd THINK he knows where I'm going, and he'd lie and say, "No, no...I never knew that Irish people were stereotyped as drinkers."

I'd then say, "Okay. Let's just say for the sake of argument, you didn't know of all these stereotypes, that probably most of the population does know. Then, my question is...what was funny about the email you sent? It shows watermelons, on the White House lawn. If you have no clue about this stereotype, you would see an email like this and you'd think...what the hell does this even mean? You'd then delete it, and that would be the end of it. I mean, if someone sent me an email that showed the President and had a caption that read: President Obama has replaced the Cherry Blossoms in D.C. with orange trees.

I would respond to the person that sent it to me with: What does this mean?

When they explained it, I'd then delete it. Unless it was hysterically funny (which, I doubt it would be, if it needed an explanation).

On a side note: all you idiots that forward jokes to everyone in your address book...give it a rest. The jokes are rarely funny, and we're all busy with other things. Unless it isn't 10 years old, and IS actually funny, don't bother sending it. You'll be doing us all a favor.