Monkey Cartoon_---------Poor Taste!

On Feb.18, a cartoon printed in the NY Post shows a monkey getting shot by 2 cops with a terrible caption. I am a white woman and find this totally racist and just plain tasteless! What the heck are people trying to do??/ This country is in such turmoil now, and yet we have people making cartoons like that. The writer has denied any offense to this, but I do, and so do many others. How could he do this? Does he want to start a darn civil war??? Sure, we have freedom of speech and freedom of the press and etc., but this was just awful. I wish they would hire me for the newspaper==== I would really get the country going---but not in a negative way!