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In reply to the discussion: Arizona Radio Host calls Obama a Monkey [View all]panzerfaust
(2,818 posts)50. "the 'monkey' part I can't see a being any different ..."
Because of ignorance of the history of anti-black racism?
Americans still linking blacks to apes
Crude historical depictions of African Americans as ape-like may have disappeared from mainstream U.S. culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley reveals that many Americans subconsciously associate blacks with apes.
In addition, the findings show that society is more likely to condone violence against black criminal suspects as a result of its broader inability to accept African Americans as fully human, according to the researchers...
Or because things like this just seem normal:
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The question begs an answer. Why would she call him a monkey in the first place and
teddy51
Jun 2012
#7
Should african-american republicans be offended by Bill Maher's recent comments?
toopers
Jun 2012
#52
I'm convinced that there's a not so secret program to hire dumbasses as talk radio hosts
MrScorpio
Jun 2012
#42