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I agree even though I'm a nature lover and was sad to hear the gorilla was killed (before I knew all the details), I understood why they made their decision and stand in support of the zoo officials. When I read the comments, I knew what was up. Then, when I read the mention of the father's criminal history that sealed it for me. I thought, what does his criminal past have to do with the child falling into the gorilla's enclosure? What was even more strange was that not one article mentioned the father being at the zoo with the mom and children.
As an African-American, I'm not surprised at the outrage and anger towards this child's parents at all. There is a 250 year history of this mentality in our country towards certain people when they commit any offense, intentional or accidental. It is par the course as there is a sizable number of our Caucasian brothers and sisters who never fail to show their ugly side given the opportunity. Just goes to show people of all races are flawed regardless of culture, religion, socioeconomic status, or IQ.
The last time I saw them this upset regarding animals was with Michael Vick. What he did was extremely wrong and reprehensible, YES, but I saw more outrage and hatred for him (who hurt dogs) than for Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, school shooters, movie theatre shooters, and all the other WM serial killers (who murdered innocent people) put together. Actually as I remember, those murderers (of humans) where often compassionately labeled as mentally ill, loners, or victims of physical abuse by their "stepfathers, grandmother's cousin, mean substitute teacher" as if that justified the crimes they committed.
Had that child been a little blonde child, most likely the parents would have been supported, the zoo would have been accused of being negligent for not having a 25 ft sealed iron curtain between the gorillas and the public, the shooter would be named an American hero complete with a medal ceremony attended by Pres. Obama, a movie deal reiterating how noble the shooter is and scenes recounting how he married his childhood sweetheart, and Harambe the gorilla would have been called the N-word, thug, or attributed to being from Africa hence the reason for his violent tendencies and need to be shot.
Wasn't it the Brookfield Zoo where a similar incident happened several years back. Except in that incident the gorilla was a female and was obviously trying to help the kid. That one had a happy ending.
I had forgotten about that. We avoided the gorilla enclosure so we didn't have to worry about that. I thought they modified the enclosure after that incident, didn't they?
I had forgotten about that. We avoided the gorilla enclosure so we didn't have to worry about that. I thought they modified the enclosure after that incident, didn't they?
The incident was way back in 1996.
Apparently Binti Jua (the gorilla's name) is alive and well and still resides at the Brookfield Zoo.
OH LORD. Anyone who brings race into this is an idiot, I really don't know why people have to do this. I remember reading somewhere that the kid was saved because of "White life" only for them to retract that statement when they found out the kid was Black. It's unbelievable to me. A BLACK KID was saved, a BLACK KID was saved, HIS BLACK LIFE was saved and BLM people still have to find something to make into a racist issue. I bet if a White kid was saved they would have went on and on and on about the precious "White life" being saved. Instead certain groups of being happy that a kids life was saved, they're worried about the freaking race. Unbelievable.
These people are addicted to PC crack. EVERYTHING and ANYTHING instantly takes a racial spin, as they take another suck on the pipe with every bit of news they read... if they can actually read.
I didn't see any video of the mothers neglect, I heard people who claim she was wasn't watching her child but if all these people noticed this then why didn't any of them stop the kid or even alert the mother? Stuff happens, I'm glad the kid is okay. i think everyone cares about the gorilla but when the kid went in there wasn't of anything else they could do.
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