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by Jo Ann Brown
May 7, 2014
Dehumanization of people is a fundamental characteristic of any Ism. In the case of racism, its a well-known fact that people of African descent have historically been associated with monkeys or apes; hence, the uproar that Jim Coughlans fiery tweet referring to Melissa Harris-Perry as an ape was racist.
Melissa Harris-Perry made an ad in which she made reference to the need for communities, not just parents, to take responsibility for the well-being of children.
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because weve always had kind of a private notion of children: Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility, Harris-Perry says in the ad that remains controversial among conservatives.
We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities, she adds.
This prompted Jim Coughlan, a Republican who is also eyeing a State Senate seat to tweet Harris-Perry: Unless youre my wife dont call them our children. Keep your stinking paws off my kid, you damned dirty ape.
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spanone
(135,828 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Turbineguy
(37,322 posts)a low below which they will not go.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,448 posts)out of town on a rail!
bpj62
(999 posts)That is Charlton Heston line in Planet of the Apes. The guy can't even come up with an original bit of racism. On a serious note it amazes me that many people on the right refuse to see this kind of statement for what it really is. Hate speech.
chrisa
(4,524 posts)That's like responding to someone with a quote from Lord of the Rings.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Remember when they got killed in the 2012 election? They promised to improve their outreach efforts to minorities and women.
This is simply a continuation of those efforts.
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)Oh God....yea, Faux, please talk about post-racial America.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)"Isn't Ms. Harris-Perry's mother white?"
they'd at least be less harsh on a bi-racial person, but as we've seen with her, Obama, and others, the one-drop rule is paramount when we're talking about the RW bigots.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Like they did for someone else?
Gothmog
(145,152 posts)Conservatives are stupid people which means that they lack a sense of humor. This idiot is simply too stupid to understand that his "joke" was racist and not funny. Conservatives are simply too stupid to attempt to do humor or to tell jokes.
otohara
(24,135 posts)They obsessed about it when they first aired the promo...he knew the color of her skin. He's lying and Now in hiding.