NEW YORK (CNN) -- Leaders of the NAACP on Saturday called for the firing of the New York Post cartoonist whose drawing lampooning the federal stimulus bill has drawn charges that it's racist and encourages violence toward President Obama. NAACP's Benjamin Todd Jealous says the  organization will take issue "national" if Post cartoonist isn't fired. Speaking at the civil rights group's annual meeting in New York, NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said that if Sean Delonas is not fired, the group will call for protests of the paper and Fox television affiliates, which are owned by Post parent company News Corp.
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NAACP threatens to protest paper and Fox television affiliates if cartoonist is not fired
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Group also calls for the cartoonist's editor to be fired
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The drawing, which lampoons federal stimulus bill, has drawn charges of racism
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Post offers qualified apology accusing some of jumping at chance to attack the paper
"There is consensus that if the @placeholder does not ... get rid of the journalists who are responsible for this bit of hate speech seeing the light of day, that we will move this from a local, regional issue to a very national issue," Jealous said.