New York tabloid in racism row

A cartoon in a New York tabloid is causing big racism row in the US. A New York Post cartoon depicts police shooting a chimpanzee with the caption reading 'They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill'.

At first glance, the cartoon appears to be another reference to the shooting by police on Monday of a pet chimp that viciously attacked it's owner.

But far too many feel it's an obvious reference to Barack Obama and the longstanding slur of portraying a black man as an ape.

The newspaper's editor-in-chief however says that, the cartoon was a parody of a current news event -- the reference to shooting of a violent chimp in Connecticut.