Lede??? I always thought it was Lead.....am I wrong?
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.
I thought it had become racist prior to the knowledge that the child was black.
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#GorillaLivesMatter ping
That IS an odd thing to include in an article about what happened at the zoo. Very odd.
By the way, is Shaun King the white guy who's been telling people he identifies as black? Or was that some other guy?
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.
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.
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?
I’m just always amazed how the British press (especially the Daily Mail) reveal facts to the story that the US media tries to censor. BTW, did they ever identify the Houston gunman?
“...public has now discovered that the boy and his parents are black.”
Huh? The kid looked white to me.
He should talk. Because we ALL know he’s an expert on racism.
We should call King Kunta Kintay.
So, a dangerous animal was shot in the rescue of a hapless child.
Oh, it was a gorilla? Better still! If Hollywood could make a gorilla’s presence any more dangerous for the production of a celluloid fantasy, then I would bet the house that the real thing is much more dangerous.
Oh, the gorilla had dark fur?
Oh, the Black Live Matters crowd is screaming ‘racism’ for shooting the gorilla?
My last statement: “It’s dead, Jim.”
Sorry, bro, but Black Lives Matter initiated the racial flogging by proclaiming the gorilla’s death as a consequence of white privilege.
It went from an sorry incident to an inflammatory diatribe in moments because the BLM group decided to play the race card.
Everyone would be better served if you acknowledged the truly abysmal beginning to this story.
Sigh... Dear Shaun King. I’ll address your rant here as I have no desire to bolster the ratings of your crappy paper or your racist rant. The answer to your question is very simple, and it has nothing to do with racism. Look at all the similar examples you listed and see if you can spot the difference.
Here, let me help. Not one of them included an outcome where a beloved primate had to be put down. (No, that unto itself is not the reason.) Killing the gorilla brought out death threats to the family made by PETA wackos and other unhinged animal “lovers” with misplaced priorities.
Get it? Death threats to the family. As a “journalist” you should know that if such threats are made to a family then the media will then ask the question about WHO the family is. It’s part of journalism 101, you know, the 5 Ws and an H? Who, what, when, where, why and how.
Then again, perhaps the “5Ws and the H” foundation of news writing is racist?! Maybe I just gave you the topic of your next column?
Racist moron.
“People often ask why guys like me “make everything racial” as if we made the system this way. We didn’t. Race and racism are obviously deeply entrenched in this ugly world and stories like this are required to fight back against it.”
You didn’t make it that way, Mr. King, you just perpetuate it because it is deeply entrenched in YOUR ugly psyche. Get a life.
Shaun is an idiot.
Shaun needs to realize that so many liberal people don’t really value life — white or black.
- Have progressives been screaming about the genocide against Christians in the middle east?
- Are progressives up in arms against the genocide at Planned Parenthood (especially since the original intent was for blacks to be aborted).
- Are liberals up in arms about the violence in the black community?
- Do liberals give a flip about so many black children without a father in the home?
Shaun, you’re trying to make this about race. The problem is that you and your fellow liberals don’t really value human life.
Well, it’s possible. Harambe was an African-American.
“July 1 2016 “
Time travel?