“8/05/2009, 5:00pm EST”
“The choice of words were poor; but they weren’t meant to characterize professor Gates as a banana-eating jungle monkey.”
— That’s an excerpt from Boston police officer Justin Barrett’s lawsuit against the city, which seeks to reverse his suspension from the force after he sent an email that “used the ‘jungle monkey’ phrase four times, three times referring to Gates…” (CNN) Racism, species-ism, and revisionism, all rolled into one big dumb package. H/t Aaron.
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