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2024-05-08 20:28:47 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 46C3986A8A527DE73237740E2236F1A6BAC1CD45D9DB98EEACE02689F7EBF7BD
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Staples is on video mocking a black protester with monkey/ape-like acting. Comparison of African-Americans to monkeys and apes is a long-used racist theme to demean and dehumanize them — as is calling people who oppose racists and racism un-American. https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/links/essays/vcu.htm https://daily.jstor.org/in-the-mccarthy-era-to-be-black-was-to-be-red/ https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/communism https://snccdigital.org/inside-sncc/international-connections/red-baiting/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opinion/roseanne-racism-blacks-apes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://theconversation.com/comparing-black-people-to-monkeys-has-a-long-dark-simian-history-55102 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/us/politics/ronald-reagan-richard-nixon-racist.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/teacher-at-school-where-black-student-was-called-monkey-said-she-didnt-know-it-was-an-insult/amp/
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