Friday, July 31, 2009



A very naughty man

It's just fine to make thousands of references to GWB as a "chimp" but ...
"The race row that has inflamed the US took a bizarre twist last night when a Boston police officer was suspended for abusing Harvard scholar Professor Henry Louis Gates and calling him "a banana eating jungle monkey".

In a furious and at times ungrammatical rant at a reporter on the Boston Globe newspaper, the anonymous email, allegedly written by Officer Barrett said: "If I were the officer he (Professor Gates) verbally assaulted like a banana eating jungle monkey I would have sprayed him in the face with OC (capsicum spray)."

Later in the email, quoted in full on the Boston Globe's website MyFoxBoston.com. the 36-year-old former English teacher suggested the headline for the newspaper's article on Professor Gates' arrest should read: "Conduct Unbecoming a Jungle Monkey - back to one's roots."

Source

While it was a comment in breach of current speech rules, it does seem to be a reference to what Gates said and did rather than his race. I imagine that the cop would argue that the excited chattering and screeching which apparently emanated from Gates was reminiscent of monkey behavior -- but I live on the other side of the world so I could well have it all wrong. If the cop had referred to ALL blacks as jungle monkeys, THAT would certainly be a racist utterance.

I think the cop should have called Gates a chimp. We know from how often the Left used it about GWB that it must be an OK term to use. Or am I missing something? Surely Leftists are not saying that GWB really does not look like a chimp but Gates really does? That sounds like racism to me!

6 comments:

Stan B said...

"Monkey" in any form these days in America refers to blacks, you know that John.

"House Monkey," "Jungle Monkey" (although here in the SOUTH, the term "Jungle Bunny" is more prevelant), etc...

Remember the row over the "Chimp Attack / Stimulus Bill" cartoon?
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/US/02/19/chimp.cartoon.react/art.cartoon.nypost.jpg

If the term "monkey" is involved, it's automatically racist!

Anonymous said...

Here's another way of seeing it Jon. The notoriously Left-wing Boston Globe was "deliberately" looking for a remark which could then be used to make Gates's case of racism. Ambush journalism at work, once again.

Make no mistake. The professor, a well-known, radical, black nationalist, and his unapologetic pal in the WH will end up making that Sgt. look like a racist fool. In fact, IMO, he's a fool for going to that "meeting". He is the injured party here, not the professor. Not the president. President Obummer owes the Sgt. and the entire Cambridge PD an apology. And it must be made on national TV, as was his asinine and racist remark. But don't hold your breath waiting for it.

A. Jolson said...

Well said Mobius. It certainly shows who the "true" racists are in this country. That is, for those who choose to see the truth.

As for Al $harptongue, (a.k.a. Race Pimp) understand that Al doesn't get involved in anything unless he can get some free TV air-time and there's a quick buck to be made.

JR said...

"Monkey" in any form these days in America refers to blacks, you know that John."

So Bush was a black? A chimp is a monkey, you know

It's the double standard I'm getting at

Anonymous said...

No double standard here. First of all it's different to insult an institution and/or an A-list celebrity or a politician than someone caught up in his 15 minutes of fame. Secondly, it's racist to call a nigger monkey but it's not racist to call a white man that. I won't go to details but you can take my word for it.

The e-mail was obviously racist - no doubt about that. The question is so what. Political correctness is only problem because people allow themselves to be enslaved. If you're a racist be one and be proud. You think men apologized for their world view in the 50's? Why should they now?

Robert said...

Considering how the various stripes of Marxists seem to want to define "racism" down to cover entirely normal behavior, such as legitimate criticism of non-whites, we may soon see "racist" become a term for which nobody need be ashamed.
On another note, a market analyst I've listened to for quite some time, when talking about everything he sees that indicates a big, nasty depression coming on, said "You can learn like a man, or you can learn like a monkey." The man learns from historical examples and good explanations of phenomena, to predict what will happen well before it happens. The monkey can only learn once the consequences actually happen to him. Of course, it seems fair to say that this Obama administration can't even learn like a monkey, let alone like a man!