But I'd like to ask, instead: is this cartoon racist if you didn't remember, like me, that the creature holding up the baby in The Lion King was a monkey? (I had a vague confused image of the daddy lion with a cub in his paws.) And is it racist if you, like cartoonist de Reijger, aren't American, and haven't grown up with that particular slander? (Of course, he still had to make some kind of cognitive leap from "American President with some African heritage" to "Disney movie about talking lions.")
And, even more importantly: does it make any sense? In the movie, the monkey displayed the new heir to the throne for everyone to see and worship -- but cartoon-Obama is here doing pretty close to the opposite. And what's up with his expression?
