Editing New York Post (section)

===Accusations of racism===
In 1989, the ''Post'' described the five black and Latino teenagers arrested following [[Central Park jogger case|the rape and assault of a white woman in Central Park]] as coming "from a world of crack, welfare, guns, knives, indifference, and ignorance [...] a land of no fathers", and having set out "to smash, hurt, rob, stomp, rape" people who were "rich" and "white".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Alissa |title=A changing America finally demands that the Central Park Five prosecutors face consequences |url=https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/27/18715785/linda-fairstein-central-park-five-when-they-see-us-netflix |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |language=en |date=June 27, 2019 |access-date=September 20, 2021 |archive-date=January 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114133838/https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/27/18715785/linda-fairstein-central-park-five-when-they-see-us-netflix |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hinton |first1=Elizabeth |title=How the 'Central Park Five' Changed the History of American Law |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/when-they-see-us-shows-cases-impact-us-policy/590779/ |website=[[The Atlantic]] |language=en |date=June 2, 2019 |access-date=September 20, 2021 |archive-date=January 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114133849/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/when-they-see-us-shows-cases-impact-us-policy/590779/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Dahl |first1=Julia |title=We were the wolf pack: How New York City tabloid media misjudged the Central Park Jogger case |url=https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2011/we-were-the-wolf-pack-how-new-york-city-tabloid-media-mangled-the-central-park-jogger-case/ |website=[[Poynter Institute]] |date=June 16, 2011 |access-date=September 20, 2021 |archive-date=January 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114133828/https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2011/we-were-the-wolf-pack-how-new-york-city-tabloid-media-mangled-the-central-park-jogger-case/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The teenagers' convictions were later overturned after the confession of a serial rapist, which was confirmed with DNA evidence.

In 2006, several [[Asian-American]] advocacy groups protested the use of the headline "Wok This Way" for a ''Post'' article about U.S. president [[George W. Bush]]'s meeting with [[Hu Jintao]], President of the [[People's Republic of China]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/04-22-2006/front/story/411080p-347724c.html|author=Paul H.B. Shin|title=Post's 'Wok' Head No Joke to Asians|work=[[New York Daily News]]|date=April 22, 2006|access-date=June 7, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070308035513/http://www.nydailynews.com/04-22-2006/front/story/411080p-347724c.html|archive-date=March 8, 2007}}</ref>

In 2009, the ''Post'' ran a cartoon by [[Sean Delonas]] of a white police officer saying to another white police officer who has just shot a [[Common chimpanzee|chimpanzee]] on the street: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009|stimulus bill]]." The cartoon dually referred to U.S. president Obama and to the recent rampage of [[Travis (chimpanzee)|Travis]], a former chimpanzee actor. It was criticized as [[racist]],<ref name=CNN021809c>Roland S. Martin, [http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/18/martin.cartoon/index.html Commentary: NY Post cartoon is racist and careless] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221083106/http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/18/martin.cartoon/index.html |date=February 21, 2009 }}, CNN, February 18, 2009, Accessed February 19, 2009.</ref> with civil rights activist [[Al Sharpton]] calling the cartoon "troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_en_ot/ny_post_cartoon|agency=[[Associated Press]]|title=NY Post cartoon of dead chimpanzee stirs outrage|date=February 18, 2009|access-date=February 19, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221191405/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_en_ot/ny_post_cartoon|archive-date=February 21, 2009}}</ref>

The [[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy]] song "A Letter to the ''New York Post''" from their album ''[[Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black]]'' is a complaint about what they believed to be negative and inaccurate coverage Black people received from the paper.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Christgau |first1=Robert |last2=Tate |first2=Greg |date=December 14, 2020 |title=Chuck D: All Over the Map |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/12/14/chuck-d-all-over-the-map/ |access-date=June 18, 2022 |website=The Village Voice |archive-date=January 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114133834/https://www.villagevoice.com/chuck-d-all-over-the-map/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2019, the ''Post'' displayed an image of the World Trade Center in flames targeting Rep. [[Ilhan Omar]], one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress. The image had been displayed due to Ms. Omar's widely criticized quote "Some people did something" which was viewed by many as insensitive and minimizing the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Eli |title=A 'pure racist act': N.Y. Post slammed for using 9/11 to attack Rep. Omar over speech on Islamophobia |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/11/pure-racist-act-ny-post-slammed-using-attack-rep-omar-over-speech-islamophobia/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |language=en |access-date=April 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416061908/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/11/pure-racist-act-ny-post-slammed-using-attack-rep-omar-over-speech-islamophobia/ |archive-date=April 16, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Yemeni American Merchant Association announced a formal boycott of the paper and ten of the most prominent Yemeni [[Convenience store|bodega]] owners in New York agreed to stop selling the paper. As of June 2019, the boycott had extended to over 900 individual stores.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Weiss |first1=Ben |title=Yemeni Bodega Owners Are Making the 'Post' Feel the Pinch |url=https://indypendent.org/2019/06/yemeni-bodega-owners-are-making-the-post-feel-the-pinch/ |website=The Indypendent |access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=January 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114133828/https://indypendent.org/2019/06/yemeni-bodega-owners-are-making-the-post-feel-the-pinch/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Yemeni-Americans own about half of the 10,000 bodegas in New York City.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goldbaum |first1=Christina |title=The New York Post Inspires Boycott With 9/11 Photo and Ilhan Omar Quote |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/nyregion/new-york-post-boycott.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 14, 2019 |access-date=April 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415185942/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/nyregion/new-york-post-boycott.html |archive-date=April 15, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>