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City hauls away ‘racially insensitive’ statue of ‘Dobby’ the gorilla from Texas park
Texas Star Telegram ^ | 03/02/2018 | Matthew Martinez

Posted on 03/02/2018 7:20:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind

A gorilla statue’s presence and then its sudden removal from a park playground have taken up a disproportionate amount of time and energy from city officials in Corsicana, Texas.

On Tuesday night, Mayor Don Denbrow said in a statement that the caged gorilla statue affectionately known as “Dobby” would be hauled away from Corsicana’s Community Park after “a few citizens” complained that the statue was racially insensitive.

Corsicana resident Betty Lambert told the Corsicana Daily Sun that she sees both sides of the argument surrounding the statue.

“My grand nieces love Community Park. The gorilla cage was a favorite,” Lambert told the newspaper. “I am sympathetic to the idea that it could be thought of as a metaphor for the institution of slavery. I support the removal of the gorilla on the grounds that it could offend members of our community. At no time did I ever think of it as anything other than King Kong.”

“It was not possible to leave the gorilla without the cage due to safety reasons,” Debrow said in the statement. So the gorilla had to go, prompting one man to reportedly stage a protest by refusing to come out of the cage until the city promised to return the statue. And an “In Memory of Dobby” Facebook page sprang up and attracted 1,100 likes in just over a day.

Corsicana, which sits about 55 miles south of Dallas, has a population estimated at just under 24,000 by the U.S. Census Bureau.

But one of Corsicana’s four City Council members, Jeff Smith, said Dobby’s supporters would not let this (fake) gorilla go the way of Harambe, the (real) gorilla famously killed at the Cincinnati Zoo when a child fell into his enclosure.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: race; sensitivity
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To: SeekAndFind

Bunch of fruit cakes.


21 posted on 03/02/2018 7:59:19 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
If you've seen previews the the upcoming movie Rampage (based on a popular video game), the gorilla in the movie is white, whereas in the arcade it's brown.... (no doubt done on purpose, since the plot of the game and movie is that the gorilla tears the city apart)


Movie Version



Arcade version


22 posted on 03/02/2018 8:00:40 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

This can only be “racially insensitive” if “blacks” identify with apes.


23 posted on 03/02/2018 8:06:38 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

McClatchey article. That explains why it is so stupid and biased.


24 posted on 03/02/2018 8:07:09 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Carry me back
Keep in mind Corsicana is not a college town or a resort community, but a largely blue collar exurb of Dallas and Fort Worth. Since 2000, Navarro County has been reliably Republican in Presidential elections, with Trump carrying the county by a 3:1 margin, despite a substantial black and Hispanic population, representing about one-third of the residents.

Most likely, the minority residents, particularly the blacks, are concentrated in Corsicana proper rather than in the rural portions of the county. The events in Tulia, Texas, a smaller town in the Panhandle, about 20 years ago, where a good portion of the black community was arrested in a drug bust, which later turned out to be instigated by a rouge cop, had an effect on small town politics in Texas. The local white gentry, who run the businesses and legal structure, tends to run scared of the blacks. That is not necessarily fear of the local blacks, but of the DFW and even national media.

25 posted on 03/02/2018 8:08:14 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: ronnie raygun

#17. Paint the gorilla black and white with stripes and call him a Zebra.


26 posted on 03/02/2018 8:08:52 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Skywise
I’m scratching my head trying to figure out how this is racist.

There are races among gorillas--the western gorilla, the eastern gorilla, the mountain gorilla, etc. But I don't think gorillas are all that concerned.

27 posted on 03/02/2018 8:13:56 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: SeekAndFind

Gorillas. Watermelon. Bananas. The left has criminalized those thoughts.


28 posted on 03/02/2018 8:15:38 AM PST by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature. Liberals are insane. Liberals should be in strait jackets.)
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To: American in Israel

Well, that’s what the gorillas will say...


29 posted on 03/02/2018 8:16:46 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: headstamp 2

These people who complain are insane. “Lets wipe out racism by calling attention to something that’s not racist”

Now by this action all these kids who would have otherwise grown up thinking a gorilla is just a gorilla will now associate a gorilla with black people. Way to go.


30 posted on 03/02/2018 8:20:10 AM PST by penguinhunter
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To: SeekAndFind
"On Tuesday night, Mayor Don Denbrow said in a statement
that the caged gorilla statue affectionately known as “Dobby”
would be hauled away from Corsicana’s Community Park after
“a few citizens” complained that the statue was racially insensitive."

I'm trying to figure out what part of the human
race the gorilla belongs to. Does the gorilla know
discrimination when it happens? Has the gorilla now
become a Homo Sapien?
What's animal is next feel discrimination --- chimpanzees?
Excuse me. I said the word "Homo". More feelings hurt.

31 posted on 03/02/2018 8:32:55 AM PST by StormEye
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To: SeekAndFind

This is another manifestation of TDS. Remember how it was reported that Trump likes to watch gorillas on TV (yes, it was fake news, but liberals may not have caught on yet)? Since Trump likes gorillas, and Trump is white, gorillas are racist. See how simple this is?


32 posted on 03/02/2018 9:13:57 AM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Mardi Gras in New Orleans

King Kong

Queen Kong

Baby Kong


33 posted on 03/02/2018 9:26:31 AM PST by Romulus
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To: headstamp 2

“In other words, the people doing the complaining are the racists.”

And they don’t want a gorilla reminding them that they look like gorillas.


34 posted on 03/02/2018 9:27:19 AM PST by aquila48
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This would be a non story if it was an albino gorilla.


35 posted on 03/02/2018 9:31:46 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: JockoManning

Or this...

https://youtu.be/xF9HyOMV5h0


36 posted on 03/02/2018 9:34:42 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: headstamp 2

“In other words, the people doing the complaining are the racists.“

Absolutely true, and anyone who does not understand that is a certifiable idiot.


37 posted on 03/02/2018 9:39:09 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Delta 21

Hmmmmmmmm


38 posted on 03/02/2018 11:01:53 AM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: headstamp 2

If one doesn’t say no, next they’ll come after the Sloths!


39 posted on 03/02/2018 11:09:38 AM PST by GOYAKLA (" Winning not Whining"!)
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To: SeekAndFind

As soon as black history month was over they took down the display of the gorilla. Read between the lines.


40 posted on 03/02/2018 11:10:53 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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