Demand to the NY Post concerning President Obama

To:  The New York Post Publishers

We, the African American people of the United States of America, an nation that was built upon the backs of our ancestors and profited in unique ways because of it; we, the African American people of the United States of America, also being free men of whom some of our ancestors were not slaves in this nation, but who were also subjected to some of the most horrific and atrocious physical, psychological and emotional abuses known to mankind in modern history, is prepared and preparing to pull together to demand equitable justice from the New York Post news, its publishers, editors, advertisers, and subscribers for the racist depiction of our President, Barack Hussein Obama, in its pages.

The foundational history of this nation's bigotry and hatred against African Americans and its black citizens is well-known and documented, as is its continued targets against a people who are also the citizens of this nation. We have lived in a nation for more than 400 years that claims it loves America, but apparently are not tolerant or respectful of certain Americans.

Our forefathers and foremothers have bled and died and are the heart, root, and soul of this nation. They tolerated many racial injustices to bring us to a day when this would end. However, you have insulted our communities, and have paid the highest form of treason and disrespect to our President by allowing this racist and filthy cartoon to be printed in the folds of your disreputable newspaper.

The message that you continue to send, as is part of your history, is that it is "creative enterprise" to disparage races and ethnicities of people who are blood-bought born citizens of the United States of America and you send an illegitimate and ill-conceived message that it is of no consequence to continue to act in this manner toward us.

We sign this Petition today to let you know, symbolically and realistically, that this kind of thing will no longer be tolerated. Our methods and our motives have always been those of peace and the actions of the New York Post seem to want to create and stir up hatred and death and destruction inthe midst of all efforts by the African Americans citizens to remain at and live in peace and quiet contentment of their lives, land, homes, and properties.

This kind of statement is viewed as a blight on the nation, as any nation that would sit back and allow this kind of thing and not rise up in force of numbers to dissuade and stop it, is no better a nation than some of the countries it attempts to help become a democracy. The United States will never be able to address freedom in the world until it understands respect for all of its citizens, including the ones who have African ancestors, whether they were slave or free.

Freedom of the media is one thing, but there must come a time when major violations of this nature are brought under control expediently. Because we are free does not give us the right to trample upon the values that made us that way.

America has adopted a set of principles on democracy called the United States Constitution, and by the rule of law and proper governance, this matter is not only considered to be racist, harassing and insulting, but it also suggests the murder of our President, which we consider to be a federal crime for which the members of the Post who allowed it should be arrested and tried in a court of law for issuing death threats against the President of the United States. In this we find no respect for human rights, not respect for the rights of black citizens, and no respect toward the nation itself that decided that President Obama should be its leader.

We hereby call upon the New York Post to fire the cartoonist and the editors and publishers who allowed this to be published; and to issue a front page national declaration of apology to America's black and colored citizens for the racist and disrespectful depiction and also a front page full page apology to President Obama for the suggestion that his life should be taken as a result of his efforts to return public tax money to the people who earned it.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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