Sounds like their butthurt because they think that DC is calling them a bunch of uncivilized apes?

http://tinyurl.com/buttgrave

Gorilla Grodd isnt racist, he is a speciest, if you can even call that word

Well, on pain of coming across insensitive to some parts of the human species, perhaps I can share my observations, living in a very mixed city (New York City).

1) I've noticed that if you simply keep your ears perked in the subway, about 4 out of 10 times you will hear some poor, likely mildly-deranged black person standing there and muttering darkly under his breath with hat in his eyes words like "Gonna KILL all the F***ing white motherf***ers 'cause of their bulls***!" and continuing on down the line.

2) there is, from observation, a sense of entitlement held that somehow all black folk should be allowed to essentially do whatever they want to non-blacks out of a sense of "just revenge" for the past. Mind you, I am reasonably sure that said individuals probably cannot trace their ancestry to someone directly oppressed, or moreover, someone truly of slave descent. This however doesn't stop their train of thought nor does it prevent them from using this excuse to justify rudeness and viciousness.

3) I have prior engaged in a number of conversations which devolve rapidly from logical discussions of the criminal justice system of New York to a "There's a conspiracy against us black folk by the law!", backed up usually be rather one-sided significantly-crackpot theories that I can only describe as ludicrous. About 50% of the time this conspiracy theory rapidly inflates to extend to the whole of the US.

Just these three, in addition to many others, has engendered in me a conclusion that apparently the general black populace feels to this day oppressed, still enslaved, persecuted, and indeed considered sub-human, and that this is, whether spoken of or not, whether action is taken or not, the general consensus held by all non-blacks against them as something verging on a crime. With this kind of persecution complex present, and with added to this the feeling that they should be allowed a just revenge of hatred and oppression upon those who aren't black, well, anytime you seat something on that kind of bubble that might seem in the slightest bit as being misconstrued as hateful/harmful/slanderous of black folk, they will lash out with the full fury of this persecution complex's engendered hatred.

And yes, while long-winded, it has meaning, sadly.

I really wish it didn't sound like there are no exceptions (as there are quite a few), but the majority of folk I've met who eschew a traditional education (for various reasons) tend to hew to this. It makes me rather sad.

Yours,
Mika

Well, Grodd techincally is racist, afterall he thinks only apes should rule the earth, that everyone should look like an ape, and that humans should be enslaved.

it's called "trolling". i understand that it's hard to identify around these parts, but this is comparatively an obvious example of it.

no, seriously. no actual argument could maintain this as valid for more than five seconds, this only exists because of internet logic.

it's called "trolling". i understand that it's hard to identify around these parts, but this is comparatively an obvious example of it.

no, seriously. no actual argument could maintain this as valid for more than five seconds, this only exists because of internet logic.

My intellect says give the benefit of the doubt, but my heart says; "DC is trollin." Unfortunately, my heart is the one that is usually right about this kind of thing. In your last journal or so, you just wrote about how the comics industry deliberately does stuff to get attention. This could very well be an example of example of that.

They probably knew the racist comments would come, but... Last I knew, Gorilla City WAS set in Africa. So it only makes sense that if the apes were a world power, they would control a chunk of Africa like displayed on that map.