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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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Bunch of fruit cakes.
This can only be “racially insensitive” if “blacks” identify with apes.
McClatchey article. That explains why it is so stupid and biased.
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.
#17. Paint the gorilla black and white with stripes and call him a Zebra.
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.
Gorillas. Watermelon. Bananas. The left has criminalized those thoughts.
Well, that’s what the gorillas will say...
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.
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.
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?
King Kong
Queen Kong
Baby Kong
“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.
This would be a non story if it was an albino gorilla.
“In other words, the people doing the complaining are the racists.“
Absolutely true, and anyone who does not understand that is a certifiable idiot.
Hmmmmmmmm
If one doesn’t say no, next they’ll come after the Sloths!
As soon as black history month was over they took down the display of the gorilla. Read between the lines.
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