And for many people, comparing a black man to a monkey crosses all sorts of lines. But what if you're comparing both a black man and a white man to monkeys? And a woman to a pitbull-monkey?
TheSock Obama is relying on a strange type of equality. Eah whatever.
The real hypocrisy on the page is the warning:
Beware of cheap imitators.Then the product images still sport that classy timestamp. They're professionals.
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Gross. In what inglorious pits are you wallowing to stumble upon the worst mankind has to offer each day?
The scariest thing is that this was an ad in my gmail window.
wow. That surprises me, though I suppose it shouldn't -- as if Google can be expected... to... have... any sense of decency or morality that transcends the dollar (?!).
For whatever reason, this event pops into my head:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cosell#The_.22little_monkey.22_incident
Howard Cosell says "Look at that little monkey go". I guess it isn't all about intentions, right?
yeah i thought of that too. i also think back to the chick hearn incident. a player dunked the ball and hung onto the rim. hearn said something about giving him a banana.
he said he wasn't thinking about race but agreed that it didn't matter. he felt the need to apologize simply for having said something that hurt people.
One time after sinking a set-shot from about 17' in a high school game in Michigan, a radio announcer compared me to a tortoise:
"Hey, Pratt sinks one! -- remember the tortoise and the hare? Sometimes slow and steady wins even on the basketball court."
I was a little offended.
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