So, when the left drew pictures of Bush as a monkey, were they being racist, declaring that Bush was as stupid as a black person and therefore we should draw him as a monkey?
Or did they mean something other than “he’s black and we are racist”?
If you think that using a monkey as a representation of a white politician makes sense, then you can’t argue that using it against a black politician must be racist. IN fact, I would argue that NOT using it against a black politician is racist, because you are discriminating because of race.
You want to ignore hundred of years of racist caricature. Sorry, it’s not going to fly.