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"quit playing in the trees like monkeys" nets criminal charges?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 151087" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>That's not quite what happened in Virginia with Gov. Allen. It's fairly certain that Allen was deliberately calling the young man an offensive name considering Allen's mother is from French Tunisia where it's a common slur. Too much of a coincidence that he just happened to make up a word like that and applied it to a dark skinned person. He knew the young man only as a tracker from his opponent's campaign. Allen knew what he was doing, he just didn't think anyone else would.</p><p></p><p>The legendary sports announcer Howard Cosell got into a heap of trouble announcing a football game in 1983 when he said "look at that little monkey go" as a black player made a great run. What got overlooked in the ensuing bruhaha is that Cosell had often made the same comment when referring to white players. The operative word in the phrase for Cosell may have been "little" rather than "monkey" because he tended to say it about short, fast runners regardless of race.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 151087, member: 1498"] That's not quite what happened in Virginia with Gov. Allen. It's fairly certain that Allen was deliberately calling the young man an offensive name considering Allen's mother is from French Tunisia where it's a common slur. Too much of a coincidence that he just happened to make up a word like that and applied it to a dark skinned person. He knew the young man only as a tracker from his opponent's campaign. Allen knew what he was doing, he just didn't think anyone else would. The legendary sports announcer Howard Cosell got into a heap of trouble announcing a football game in 1983 when he said "look at that little monkey go" as a black player made a great run. What got overlooked in the ensuing bruhaha is that Cosell had often made the same comment when referring to white players. The operative word in the phrase for Cosell may have been "little" rather than "monkey" because he tended to say it about short, fast runners regardless of race. [/QUOTE]
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