Hey, Don't Monkey Around, Calling Black People APES!

We all believe those sanctimonious people who solemnly say, "I don't notice color."

You kind of wish they'd get run over by a big yellow taxi cab.

How the fuck do you NOT notice if someone's white, black, brown, red, orange (tanning salons) or yellow?

The thing is, not to make it an issue. Same goes with a big nose, slanty eyes, kinky hair, or other ethnic traits.

A lot of black people, especially Africans that haven't yet porked white people or other ethnic groups, look simian. Why deny the obvious, child? They've got brown skin and flat noses. Hell, Muhammad Ali insisted Joe Frazier "looks like a gorilla. He's ugly!"

Well, some people think gorillas are cute. Baby gorillas are. So what's the point of THIS rant? This....

The lesson here isn't about racism, it's about the MOVIES.

Most of us are loaded up with movie catch-phrases. And anything that happens to us, we're likely to relate it to something we saw on TV, not something we know about from real life. As in, "Wow, there was a big fire...it looked like something out of a movie..."

So some politician quotes a famous "Planet of the Apes" catch-phrase. It's instantly branded as racist. In this case, the politician had no idea who the broadcaster was, or that she was an "African American."

(Whispering) Pssst...everyone...some black people look like apes. Let's ignore it.

I'm not saying it's right to go around saying black people look like apes, or that white people look like ghosts, or that yellow people look like Asians. I'm also not saying that if someone says something to hurt someone else, that person shouldn't be called on it. But I think we're all very, very tired of the "come to our website so we can charge more ad money" newspapers (it used to be "read the paper, we're full of juicy gossip and sex and violence). Here's a bullshit story trumped up to catch the eye and raise the blood pressure.

Now that the politician has explained that he's just a movie fan...SHUT THE FUCK UP.