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In a column recently offering his treatise that liberals do not love America, DC Republican Examiner used an unfortunate racial code word: monkey. He said that liberals behave like “scalded monkeys” when accused by their opponents of lacking patriotism. While I am willing to accept that he is merely ignorant rather than racist, I can’t simply make that assumption just on good faith.
So I did a little research for him and found this compelling and thorough essay about the term “monkey” and its history as a pejorative directed at African-Americans. In it the author Jackie Jones quotes David Pilgrim, a sociology professor and chief diversity officer at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan and curator of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, “…there are derivations, like porch monkey, and we have tons of images of African-American children being portrayed as if they were monkeys. It’s part of a continuum from the past, and I ask myself how could any adult American not know this?”
Now you make look at me and wonder why I take offense since I’m not African American and all liberals are not African American. Well to certain people anyone who opposes racial discrimination is disloyal to their white heritage and race, so blacks and liberals are equally deserving of their hate. In the spirit of fairness I can only assume that the DC Republican Examiner only allowed his hyperbole get out of hand, nothing more insidious than that.
I can speak with some authority on the subject as I received my first reprimand as an officer for the Transportation Security Administration for objecting to the openly discriminatory workplace culture at TSA. Later I was verbally warned by a supervisor for not randomly selecting enough black passengers for additional screening. It was his opinion that I was biased due to my history of speaking out and he informed me that I was considered disloyal by management
I’m an American and proud of it. I’m a Southerner and proud of it. But I know our history and I’m proud that leaders such as A. Philip Randolph took a stand for the true spirit of America. I’m proud I can write openly about the racist killer William Zantzinger. I will speak out and ask the DC Republican Examiner to find a more artful description of his perception of liberal’s reaction. Feel free to contact me; I’m always willing to help.
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