The head of the nation's oldest civil rights organization urged readers to boycott the New York Post, calling a cartoon the tabloid published an invitation to assassinate the president.
Earlier this week, the newspaper apologized to anyone who might have been offended by the image, which some say likens President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police in Connecticut.
But the apology wasn't good enough for the NAACP, and President Benjamin Todd Jealous said the cartoon printed Wednesday was ''an invitation to assassination.''
He said the tabloid should remove editor-in-chief Col Allan, as well as longtime cartoonist Sean Delonas.
"The New York Post's decision to publish a blatantly racist cartoon comparing our commander in chief to a dead chimpanzee is absolutely unacceptable, especially given the historic racist stereotypes of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys," the NAACP posted on its web site.
On Thursday, after a series of protests by notable figures including director Spike Lee, the paper posted an editorial on its Web site saying the cartoon was meant to mock the federal economic stimulus bill, but ''to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.''
A spokeswoman for the newspaper Saturday referred The Associated Press to the paper's editorial when asked about the proposed NAACP boycott.
Jealous called the editorial ''a half of an apology, without elaboration.'' The drawing, he said, ''picks off the scabs of all the racial wounds.''
The NAACP officials said that if the Post does not take ''serious disciplinary action,'' they would reach out to organizations across the country to join them in their efforts against the tabloid.
Bond called publication of the cartoon ''thoughtlessness taken to the extreme. ... Anyone who is not offended by it does not have any sensitivity.''
(Source: CBS2 HD)
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