After a gorilla escaped from a Columbia, South Carolina zoo last week, an aide to the Attorney General posted a harmless note about it on his Facebook page. [GOP activiest] Rusty DePass replied, "I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors - probably harmless."
"I am as sorry as I can be if I offended anyone. The comment was clearly in jest," DePass says, adding, "The comment was hers. Not mine." According to DePass, Michelle Obama talks about how humans were descended from apes all the time.
Re: so... is this racist or just dumb?
Hell to the naw.
Seriously, WTF?
And Heather, I have a crush on you and your activist side. Your posts are always full of passion about things dear to your heart. I like that. )
I looked up M.O's speeches and could not find a single reference to evolution in any. Do you have a source you could provde to back this up?
Sorry...I think I misread yours.....I didn't read that it was him saying this....I understood it to be a fact that you were saying....not him.
amelias, michelle is "always" talking about that? i'm a big fan of hers, and i've never heard her talk about gorillas or apes. j.crew, maybe, but never primates.
You would seriously have to have just arrived on this planet - in your little spaceship, wearing your little spacesuit - not to know that comparing an African American person to an ape is racist. So - either he's racist or SO EFFING DUMB it's unbelievable. One of the two.
And I have NEVER heard Michelle Obama talk about humans being descended from apes. She probably does believe in evolution - but it's certainly not one of her talking points so let me add insane to the list as far as this dope is concerned.
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Read my retraction
I was waiting for you!
unless you are planning on being redundant...to me racist is dumb to the extreme.
I agree with this, but think before you Facebook... honestly..... that was dumb.
Racist, dumb and ignorant but definitely racist.
All of this. Seriously people, WTF.