The New York Post released a cartoon by Sean Delonas, of a dead chimpanzee, shot by two policemen in turn symbolizing that a monkey wrote the stimulus package.

In the cartoon a monkey lay dead with two bullet holes in his chest. "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," said the caption.

What was the New York Post thinking? No matter what it symbolized they had to know that the cartoon was going to cause controversy, or maybe, controversy was exactly what they wanted. Maybe papers are not selling.

Here is my thought on this whole situation. Sorry, to all of you who like Reverend Sharpton, but he is just as racist as anyone else. I acknowledge that most of what he does is in good intention, but for this world to become free of racism, like Al Sharpton wants, this kind of thing has to come to an end. We need to get to a point where stupid cartoons are just that, stupid cartoons.

As people we need to let things change and evolve. We are not the same today as the society we were when slave owners ruled America. We all have the same rights, kind of, but that's for another post.

With this being said maybe I'm just to naive to understand because I'm white and I feel as if I'm opening Pandora's Box with all the above statements. Where can we drawn the line? In my opinion there should be no line. Are we really free if we have to hold back on our expression of the contents of a stimulus package because maybe they might offend somebody?

In Delonas mind there was no racial issue in this cartoon. In Sharpton's mind there was. If there is ever going to be a line drawn put it there; between the opinions of two very different men. They are opinions and should be taken as such. Isn't there some kind of amendment that states this; oh yea, the first one.

Freedom is what America was built on. How free are we if we are killed by our own opinions. This world is on a steady spiral into a world where freedom may as well be buried deep in the ground with a tombstone that says,"What happened to us?"

I agree with the message in this cartoon. The Stimulus bill may have well been written by monkeys. The fact that there is a President of a different race should not be a factor in this. But, of course Reverend Sharpton jumped all over the opportunity to take on the New York Post and make this an issue.

Before he jumped all over the symbolism of this cartoon being racist, maybe he should actually look at the intangibles of the Stimulus Bill itself and the fact that there were more people than just Obama who worked on the package.

It may help some people who really need it, but in reality it is helping people who wrote checks bigger then they could cash. People who, with their income, took out a loan they essentially couldn't afford.

If you're going to take my money from me I want to help someone who really needs it. Someone who isn't struggling right now becuase of greed, but because they lost their job simply because the economy is bad. I could be wrong but I feel like the Stimulus Bill is bailing out a ton of greedy people who took to much when it was there and is not going to help the people who made did not mistakes, they were just victims of this economic downfall.