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February 23, 2009

Spike Lee Calls for NY Post Boycott
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In other media news, protests are continuing outside the New York Post
over the publication of a cartoon that critics say depicts President
Obama as a chimpanzee. On Friday, filmmaker Spike Lee called for a
boycott of the newspaper and urged athletes and entertainers to shun the
paper’s writers. NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous has called for
the ouster of cartoonist Sean Delonas and editor-in-chief Col Allan.

Lloyd Riddick: “I was in the Air Force six-and-a-half years. I’m
seventy-four years old. I’ve been through hell for this country,
including when they stationed me in Biloxi, Mississippi. And that was in
1954. And you could go into a store and look at a pair of pants and hold
them up against you, but you couldn’t try them on, because a white man
had to try that pair of pants. I know racism. You could hold a hat up
over your head, but if it touched your head, you had to buy it. I know
racism.”



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