Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Shaun King: Racism Finds Its Way Into Cincinnati Zoo Saga (Harambe sized barf alert!)
NY Daily News ^ | July 1 2016

Posted on 06/01/2016 9:47:00 AM PDT by drewh

As you have likely heard, on this past Saturday a 4-year-old boy fell into the gorilla habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo.

A gut-wrenching decision was made by the zoo to shoot and kill the gorilla to protect the boy and rescue him from the habitat.

The fallout over the incident has taken a decidedly racist turn as the public has now discovered that the boy and his parents are black.

Laura Collins, in Cincinnati writing for the Daily Mail, published an absolutely despicable piece on the young boy’s parents, including every detail of his father’s criminal history.

The actual lede and headline for her piece was all about how the young boy’s father,

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061 next last

1 posted on 06/01/2016 9:47:00 AM PDT by drewh
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: drewh

Lede??? I always thought it was Lead.....am I wrong?


2 posted on 06/01/2016 9:49:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ann Archy

that’s racist...


3 posted on 06/01/2016 9:50:34 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: drewh

First of all, I’m amazed that this self-promoting clown has a newspaper column.

Second, as usual with these race-baiters, he lets his singular focus on race undermine what might otherwise be a valid point. Why should there be a newspaper article about the boy’s father being a criminal? It has absolutely nothing to do with the story. But you can bet the farm that if the boy was white and his father was a convicted of a crime, they would be running the same story. Its just sensationalism, pure and simple.


4 posted on 06/01/2016 9:50:38 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ann Archy

They should report on all the BLM tweets just after it happened claiming that if it had been a black kid they would have let the Gorilla kill him. Then, of course, they find out it was a black kid. DUH!


5 posted on 06/01/2016 9:51:34 AM PDT by baxtelf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: drewh

I thought it had become racist prior to the knowledge that the child was black.

.


6 posted on 06/01/2016 9:51:44 AM PDT by Mears
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ann Archy
"Lede" is the correct term in journalism for the opening paragraph.
7 posted on 06/01/2016 9:51:50 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (So far, this is the oldest I've been.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: drewh

#GorillaLivesMatter ping


8 posted on 06/01/2016 9:52:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: drewh
including every detail of his father’s criminal history.

That IS an odd thing to include in an article about what happened at the zoo. Very odd.

9 posted on 06/01/2016 9:52:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: drewh
I kinda agree with this Shaun King. Not that it was racism, but that the dad's criminal record had no relevance whatsoever to the story.

By the way, is Shaun King the white guy who's been telling people he identifies as black? Or was that some other guy?

10 posted on 06/01/2016 9:53:16 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (So far, this is the oldest I've been.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Opinionated Blowhard

Actually there is more to it. Originally the story had it that BLM was mad because if it was a black baby they wouldn’t have shot the gorilla. Now they are trying to wiggle out of it knowing it was a black family.

In other words, blaming whitey didn’t work so now they are trying to figure out how to blame whitey.


11 posted on 06/01/2016 9:53:23 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Her name is no longer is Hillary. It's Hilarity. Try it on for size, it's fun to say)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Opinionated Blowhard

I’d like to know what kind of weapon was used to put down the gorilla.

Any real reporters would have had that in the first paragraph or two.


12 posted on 06/01/2016 9:54:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Ann Archy
lede
n.

by 1965, alternative spelling of lead (n.2) 
in the newspaper journalism sense (see lead (v.)),
to distinguish this sense from other possible meanings 
of the written word, perhaps especially the molten 
lead (n.1) used in typesetting machines.

13 posted on 06/01/2016 9:54:05 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Ann Archy

You are correct. It is short for “Lead paragraph” but somehow the spelling got changed.


14 posted on 06/01/2016 9:54:27 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Join the Jihad! Al Qaeda Members For Hillary! Keep John F. Kerry Sec. of Appeasement)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Ann Archy

It is correct......................


15 posted on 06/01/2016 9:54:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!..........................)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: drewh

I understand the father wasn’t even present. I first saw this family picture on Cincy TV yesterday, I think. I thought the father’s rap sheet being aired was entirely wrong.

Anything to take the focus off of how that 3 year old was unwatched enough to enter a gorilla habitat. Just because lots of us have slipped up in our watchfulness over our own children, that does not mean that we were absolved and actually watchful. Carelessness is carelessness whether many are careless or one is careless.


16 posted on 06/01/2016 9:55:03 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EQAndyBuzz

I sure would like to see some links showing that those handful goofy tweets had any direct link to BLM as an organization.


17 posted on 06/01/2016 9:58:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: drewh

I’ll tell you what’s despicable, a white guy pretending to be black for the purpose of perpetrating a hoax on the public to take advantage of affirmative action programs that he is not entitled to.

Shaun (the white sheep) King thinks he’s Malcom X belongs in a straight jacket writing with crayons at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.


18 posted on 06/01/2016 9:58:29 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: drewh

Does the author understand the Mail’s article was partly in response to the whole “white privilege” meme going around at the time? Does he also automatically assume the parents & children involved in the previous incidents he mentioned were white?


19 posted on 06/01/2016 10:00:20 AM PDT by BraveMan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Flavious_Maximus

Why? It worked great for Elizabeth Warren. And now she is seen as “presidential” by Democrats.


20 posted on 06/01/2016 10:00:42 AM PDT by Zarro (This tagline space available for rent)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson