KOCO Channel 5 TV morning host says her black co-anchor looks like a 'gorilla' during a news segment

[O4L]

Cultural Appropriation....

You gotta be shatting me!

 

[John6185]

There was that female newscaster that had a rope shaped like hangman's noose and and I believe she was terminated. "Hanging out." There is too much emphasis on hurt feelings today. While we're all concerned about hurting someone's feelings, the Chinese and Russians are forging ahead of us.

 

[tRidiot]

She'll be gone soon. Same as the OKC Thunder sportscaster a couple years ago who mistakenly blurted out about Russell Westbrook when he was on a wild scoring tear that he was, outta his "cotton-pickin' mind!" He got shitcannz0red.

 

[CorpsVet]

Prejudice is pre-judging someone, based on some attribute.
Example: young adults males with pants hanging low and backwards ball caps are homies, gangbangers, or banger wannabes.
I'd say that's also a stereotype. But there's the possibility that someone who looks like that might be an upstanding citizen.

But I say; you wear the uniform, people are gonna pre-judge you to be that stereotype. Hopefully the person doing the judging will hold open the possibility that this is the exception to the rule.
But if you've got the low pants thing going on, I'm going approach you with extreme caution.

And, if you're in a suit and tie, I'll give more trust by default, also knowing that you could be the exception to that stereotype, and be a thug that beats and robs me.

I always heard that if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and is seen the company of ducks, chances are it's a duck

 

[Cowcatcher]

Does it matter that she said the gorilla looked like the fella or is that the same as if she had said the fella looked like the gorilla?

I think that what happened here was not a white lady saying black folk look like gorillas. She was just joking with a friend. I make jabs at folks all the time about things they cannot change and they do the same to me. I guess just cuz I do it don't make it ok but it's ok with me and my opinion is all that really matters here. Our individual opinions because there is no law for these things. Yes maybe someday they can ban all jokes/jabs from this country. Gonna be a while before they get that law wrote.

 

[CorpsVet]

It's making national news now, I predict she won't be there much longer

 

[montesa]

You would have to be bananas to make that mistake. I bet she’ll quit monkeying around on the job now. Someone is going to go ape shi* over this.

 

[adamsredlines]

I'm gonna play my race card next time somebody says I'm a gorilla/ape/sasquatch....which is fairly frequent (several times a week if I had to take a guess).
People need to get over themselves.
Basically, its OK for me to be compared to stuff like that, which doesnt bother me at all and I find it funny...but if I were black it would be a no-no based purely on skin color? Isnt that the very definition of racism, treating someone different purely because of their skin color???

 

[TwoForFlinching]

Isnt that the very definition of racism, treating someone different purely because of their skin color???

Definition of racism

1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

It's not defined as white, black, brown, yellow. Any person who believes any one race is superior to another.

Treating people different because of their race might actually just be respect and common courtesy. The same as you wouldn't speak to your mother or wife the same way you speak to a subordinate at work or buds at the range/locker room/deer camp. That doesn't make you misogynistic, it'd make you a caring person.

 

[Aries]

Folks, please keep in mind that there are decades of history in this country of people (mostly white) calling/comparing black people to apes, monkeys, gorillas. It used to be much more common, and make no mistake it was intentionally derogatory and racial.

I doubt the woman meant it as a racial slur, I think she was teasing her workmate. And I don't doubt that he took it in the best possible way, at least at first, but they have thousands (maybe millions) of viewers who are black, and it is not unreasonable that they may have been offended, given the history of such comments toward blacks. It was, at best, insensitive and she was right to apologize.

If you don't care about their feelings, I guess you just don't care. But I don't think that says anything positive about your character.