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The state NAACP is demanding an apology from a former South Carolina official whose Internet posting suggested a gorilla that escaped from the Columbia zoo was an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama.

NAACP president Lonnie Randolph said Monday that former Election Commission chairman Rusty DePass has not offered a “proper” apology. Randolph says the NAACP isn’t giving DePass undue attention, rather decrying racially charged commentary against the Obamas.

Minutes after the gorilla’s escape was reported, DePass posted: “I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors – probably harmless.”

The Facebook posting was captured on a South Carolina politics blog. DePass did not immediately return a call Monday, but he told WIS-TV that the posting was a joke.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/haloone/ haloone

    who cares what he called michelle obama.im sure shes gotten called worse back in the day.what did she think? did she think she would get alot of respect because she is the president wife.let me tell you there is freedom of speech,or did you forget? ignore and move on you still get to shop and live in the white house,so who cares.i got a question who’s doing the cleaning cooking and watching the kids?are you still a mom or is the staff?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ASS_BACKWARDS/ ASS_BACKWARDS

    WOW!…..

    WTF is “I’m Sorry” gonna do or change?

    http://ownagizer.blogspot.com/

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Yasmine086/ Yasmine086

    A lot of Republicans are angry that Obama is in office and a lot of racist comments and emails are making their way into the public eye. It’s one thing for a layperson to make racist comments about the Obamas, but it’s another thing for senators, congressmen, mayors, governors etc. to make these comments. It goes to show how many racist people are in power and have been for a long time.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Quickness56/ Quickness56

    Ha

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dark_Zero/ Dark_Zero

    America is showing you what they think of us as black people. Even the ones in power that makes the decisions for us, so don’t be surprised. This is a damn shame seriously.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR/ DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR

    OK! BLACKS ARE NOT FROM MONKEYS ANYWAY! NONE OF US ARE! IF WE WRE, WHY ARENT MONKEYS STILL EVOLVING? EVOLUTION IS A STUPID THEORY!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SWANKness/ SWANKness

    this isnt the first time we’ve been deemed apes of any sort..it just shows his racism coming to the forefront..it shows more than just racism, it shows this man’s disrespect towards women

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/classy57lady/ classy57lady

    This is not the first nor will it be the last time that “people of color” are referred to directly or indirectly as apes, or gorillas so this is nothing new.
    Now here are the facts that have been apparent since the beginning of time. 1. LIKE THESE ANIMALS MOST WHITE MEN, NOT BLACK MEN, ARE COVER WITH LONG STRAIGHT HAIR (ever look at their backs…yuck?) 2. IF YOU SHAVE A GORILLA OR AN APE THE SKIN UNDERNEATH IS WHITE NOT BLACK. 3. THE BACK OF THE HEEL OF THESE ANIMALS DO NOT HAVE AN INDENTATION JUST LIKE THE BACK OF THE HEEL OF WHITE PEOPLE. and 3. THESE ANIMALS HAVE NO ASS…….I rest my case.
    Now it seems to me that those people who so readily call “people of color” apes or gorillas do so because they are using reverse psychology on us. If they can get us on the defensive we will not notice that, indeed, THEY, are more similar to these animals than we are.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/C4pricorn/ C4pricorn

    couldnt hav said it any better myself classy57

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/goodness4sho/ goodness4sho

    I REALLY HATE TO SAY THIS, BUT THESE HONKEYS REALLY HATE THAT A BLACK MAN HAS WENT FROM BEING BEAT BY THEM,HUNG BY THEM AND SLAVED BY THEM TO… TAKING THEIR WHITE WOMEN, EXCEEDING THEM IN SPORTS,MUSIC,TELEVISION,AND POLITICS. THEN TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY MOVES HIS BLACK ASS INTO THEIR WHITE HOUSE. I AM ROTFL@ ALL THE HATIN HONKEYS!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NeoPanther/ NeoPanther

    Apes, huh? Let me present something no one’s ever thought about: What race on the face of this earth is more hairy than white people? What color is a monkey’s skin under it’s hair? So I’m sorry: Who are you calling a monkey?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pinkie75/ pinkie75

    Some people are so f**king stupid that it makes no sense. It’s just wrong to disrespect Michelle Obama or any person of color in this way. If this had been said about a white woman by a black man they would try to find some way to have his life disrupted. Racist ass bastards just mad because a black man is the president and is fixing the mess that they created.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kenn-09/ Kenn-09

    It aint whyte people – its haters and they come in all colors. If u let them make u hate all whyte people then they won.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/davettalashley/ davettalashley

    Oh, please. Who wants a forced, insincere apology? Let them make their stupid jokes. I bet if you look into this joker’s finances, you’ll find a whole lot of interesting inconsistencies. Let’s see how funny he finds being audited.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Yasmin_25/ Yasmin_25

    People are ignorant to the fact that we are all the same inside and out and the only thing that makes us different is the color of our skin. can you really imagine a world where everyone looked the same and was the same color,ethnicity,religion,nationality, etc the world would be pretty bland….and boring.if their was a rainbow with just one color would it still be beautiful??? ask yourself that racist people….if their was a field full of the same color flowers would that still catch every one’s eye in being beautiful…people are blind and need to wake up if the use this same kind of energy and talent to say and do the right things then the world would be a better place and to the Gov of south Carolina he looks like a dried up piece of tissue i blew my nose on. Michelle Obama has style and grace and he’s a hater!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Accountant/ Accountant

    GOD forgive me for this. but i feel we should start lynching whites and turn them into slaves and rape their women and children because clearly they have forgotten that WE OWN THEM AN ASS WHOOPIN. AND CLEARLY THESE WHITES MUST HANG WITH SOME P***Y ASS BLACK FOLK THAT CANT STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES. I’m ITCHING TO SLAP FIRE FROM A WHITE MAN OR WOMAN THAT MAKES A RACIST COMMENT TO MY FACE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pinktwizler/ pinktwizler

    Since no apology was issued that means it’s open season. Why is is when wet they smell like dog,does that mean that his ancestors had four legs. That would explain why they lick them in the mouth like it’s nothing. Dogs get treated better than human beings. We can even make gorilla sexy, but you’ll always smell like a dog PEW!WEE!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/new_year_new_things/ new_year_new_things

    all of this is just an attempt to throw our president off his game.. he’s making so much progress at the speed that most of the g.o.p could only wish for. and just like a game their trying to distract him from doing his job because with most new moves mr obama makes. he gains momentum. and they can’t stand that… so to the people making all these racist images. its too bad your not good anything else but being a lame… get a hobby. or trade.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The_King_87/ The_King_87

    i see some of the people that comment are just as stupid as the people their talking about…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/STYLISHDIVA777/ STYLISHDIVA777

    First off, the racists of America are in “fear” mode. Afraid their pseudo superiority is slipping away. This guy is obviously a racist, redneck cracker too ignorant to even comprehend the fact that she is far superior to him. She is a Harvard educated attorney who mentored our President at his first job at a law firm. Technically, SHE is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She has class, style and grace, the trifecta. There is nothing scarier to a racist than an educated minority! Every racist in America sat by and let Bush and Cheney run this country into the ground and they voiced their support for his lame platform and even lamer war. Eight long years of incompetence and never a word from the right wing idiots! Now all of a sudden, we have a competent President that happens to be black and that scares the hell out of other inept whites. Intelligent white people are never as threatened by minorities as the illiterates.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fuller77/ fuller77

    Who cares what this idiot have to say?

    On a different note, stop discriminating against them homos for purely political purposes Obama.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/STYLISHDIVA777/ STYLISHDIVA777

    WHAT’S REALLY SAD IS THAT HIS GUERILLA STATEMENT SAYS FAR MORE ABOUT HIS IGNORANCE AND LACK OF LEADERSHIP ABILITY THAN IT DOES ABOUT THE FIRST LADY. MICHELLE OBAMA IS ABOVE HIM AND HIS INSULTS. THAT’S WHAT HE’S SO TICKED OFF ABOUT. IF THAT IS THE ONLY WAY FOR THIS POLITICIAN TO EXPRESS HIMSELF, THE AVERAGE GUERILLA PROBABLY HAS A HIGHER IQ THAN HE DOES. FOR THE MOST PART, THEY ARE CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MORE INTELLIGENT CREATURES OF THE SEMIAN SPECIES.

    WHY ARE PEOPLE SO AFRAID OF CHANGE? PROBABLY BECAUSE IT MIGHT JUST LEAD TO EQUALITY AND THAT HAS NEVER BEEN HIGH ON THE WHITE MAN’S AGENDA. AND HISTORY WILL SUPPORT THAT.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/authoratthat1/ authoratthat1

    If it takes a supposedly, professional political WHITE MAN to exemplify hatred towards the BLACK WOMAN. Who can EVER stop the BLACK MAN?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MinisterMace/ MinisterMace

    This tpye of behavior will go on forever. What a small minded low life. Again I say praise God For the Obamas. Mechelle Obama is doing a wonderful job as the first lady and will continue to do what she was called to do.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shea_Shea23/ Shea_Shea23

    wowwwwwwwwww is this what we come to. if based our lives on what racist people said we would not be where we are today. In the end they look very ignorant and we are still breaking down barriers that they never thought we could so thanks haters for your motivational comments because we have just begun

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LIBOONEY/ LIBOONEY

    DePass!!! hum are you sure it’s not DeAss……….lol, how you like that monkey

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Azrael3/ Azrael3

    I don’t want an apology from him. I want him to be fired–not resign, but be FIRED. I want him to be publically shamed and humiliated.

    What a low-life.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fiyonda/ fiyonda

    People like that surely is going to bust hell wide open.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Moment/ Moment

    People like that?

    He is in office….NOTHING Will ever change,,,,honestly after all this country has done to people in other countires and its own…”I am starting to believe that it is not America that the Teerorist hate…It is our Goverment who loves to use the words,,,”The American People”…like they really know….Who is the last friend OBAMA had that made less then $300,000,000.oo a year…And I am talking about before he ran for president…POLITICS only work when the people make thier own choices…not based on any platform…If INDEPENDANCE DAY every really happen…I guess they only made plans to save themselves…lol

    THERE WILL BE A WAR SOON…I KNOW it…I FEEL it…and I can almost see the enemy…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PRIMALMINDS/ PRIMALMINDS

    This doesn’t surprise me in the least. The GOP are still acting like a bunch of spoiled brats (which they are)& still can’t except that the fact they are out of touch. As for the racial (hate) comments & mail….they’re showing their true colors. Micheal Steele should re-evalute himself about being a memeber of these people. It never going to stop.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hersey1/ hersey1

    why everytime some a*****e makes a racists remark the naacp wants an apology what the f**k is an apology?! whoever made the remark is still just as racists and even if they are just making jokes and arent racist they should still be held accountable for not having the common sense to know as a political figure you cant make racial jokes hell unless you’re apart of the race thats being joked on…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pimp_rider/ pimp_rider

    Here we are again. Someone says something stupid/racist/offensive and we fire up the stationwagon to hunt them down to put on camera. Now we’ve added another log to the racist fire that has been raging since the beginning of the ability to reason. Racism will not end. However it must be dealt with through educating those who feel oppression. Education and knowledge are Kryptonite to racists. Next, I’m not so much offended by the remarks as I am by the people who are now openly making them. In the past it happened at the racist clubs, campfires, and crossburning gatherings. But no longer. They are now media attention getters. These folks and their statements are not news worthy. When they are put in front of the camera you are making them heroes to their followers. Yes, they say they are sorry. I do believe they are. That is SORRY uses of skin and air. But this is the type of response that is desired to cover for some clandesdin maneuver that is on the forefront. But again, these folks are not worthy of any costly response. They need to be swept under the rug with the rest of the dirt. Finally, as for me, I’m not offended by Evolution. I am, however offended by talk of civil war and Revolution. I praise the ability of the Primate to endure all hostilities of nature to survive while gaining intelligence. There has never been such an adaptation and overcoming since speaking of their ability to truly multitask. With their limited ability and lack of skills only they could give rise to the most powerful descendants on the planet. I say let the real education of this here United States of America finally begin.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_STANFIELD/ MR_STANFIELD

    man u knw its a shame when they see a strong BLK WOMAN.. it just eats @ them knowing that we more than rap. and clothes….. .. I KNW IT GOING 2 TAKE A MIN FOR EVERYONE 2 BE EQUAL.. BUT DAMN ITS 2009/10 ..LET THIS RACIST S#$T GO.. LIVE YUR LIFE IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT MOVE OUT THE UNITED STATES

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoulDana/ SoulDana

    i find these comments emails and pictures ridiculous. how can a nation that is mixed like the usa be so ignorant and do stuff like that. people call other countries in the world racist, but people here have not realized that the most racism is praticed in the united states where all the nations are represented in this country. we have chineese, japanese, korean, vietnamese, iraninan, iraquis, arabs, german, french, scottish, brittish , italian, canadian, spanish, mexican and so on and so on. THIS COUNTRY should be ASHAMED of themself especially POLITICIANS that are acting like a bunch of idiots. i came to this country due to my husband serves in the army and i am proud of him for what he is doing but i never have looked at anybody in a different way. we are all aliens in other countries we have to grow up and face that it does not MATTER WHAT COLOR a person has its about what u can accomoplish and dream. we are not here to judge anybody we are here to act as a nation to make a better present and future. but i guess this will never happen????!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Imperfect_Gentleman/ Imperfect_Gentleman

    Wow… Its amazing… What will they do next… These Good ole Boys are starting to realize they are just Old and no one cares and their hold is almost over… They use to walk away with some dignity, now they just do anything to make it seem like they are fighting back…Freaking a-holes

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MsCassann/ MsCassann

    Why do we give these people more credit than they deserve. Ignorance is something that needs to be ignore. My comment Stupid people gives me a headache. These are attention seeking people and we give them exactly what they want when we get all fired up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/demented8/ demented8

    The NAACP SHOULD demand an apology? What the fukk is wrong with people?! We weren’t “gorillas” when we served as slaves and subordinates, or back when the idea of a black president was far unseen, but soon as one of us makes it, we have these stupid azz rednecks making ridiculous comments like this! I agree with one of the posters: they say and do this stupid shiit because they’re old and about to die. If they want to rush their emiment deaths, I dare them to SAY it directly TO a “gorilla” and see if they don’t get stomped the fukk out!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/K_G_21/ K_G_21

    the NAACP is a joke. and we a blacks should ignore all this ignorance. we must be doing something good in order to garner all this hate. racism has been around since the beginning of time almost and not going anywhere anytime soon. i wouldnt even give all this mess the dignity of a response.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BreakitDown69/ BreakitDown69

    The NAACP should demand a apology. Wrong is wrong. The “Good Ol Boys,” have been getting away with BS since the beginning of time. Dude disrespected not just a black queen, but also the first lady. She should have the such utmost respect. Everyone who’s hating on the president and the first lady, should just get over and get a damn life!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigj97216/ bigj97216

    @haloone- shhhhh, you’re showing your ignorance. This is a grown folks conversation. Go read a book.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/4merHorse06/ 4merHorse06

    And just who the kcuf is the broke joke NAACP to be “demanding” anything from anybody? Those knee-grows act like racist is something that started on January 20, 2009 at 12:05 pm. Blacks have bee the target of racism since….that far back, and NOW it’s a problem ’cause Hussein & his wife are in the White House? Puh-leese, them flok need to get a life.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Hokage-Sama69/ Hokage-Sama69

    LMFAO@ YALLS COMMENTS…have him apologize for 400 years of oppression too while you’re at it

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    [...] Republican Makes Michelle Obama Gorilla Joke On Facebook [...]

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    I was taught in 4th grade that caucasians evolved from ape like creatures that walked dragging their knuckes on the ground.creatures that lived in trees and ate raw animals[like they do now so they can taste the blood],and walked around s**tting like cows.they are still blood thirsty creatures.they are responsible for spreading all the worlds diseases to other races through raping women and little girls of the other races.they have spread skin diseases to other races,because their pale skin is diseased.you can tell just by looking at it.their bodies start to decay internally as they age,and they will be responsible for the diseases infecting the other races in the future.the decaying of their insides makes their breath smell rancid.So for them to talk about black people being monkeys or gorrillas is funny,and downright stupid.that’s why it would be better if they were kept isolated from the rest of the worlds population.!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kristin_ImaDiva_D/ Kristin_ImaDiva_D

    I think that this proves the theory that white people are aliens. Why do you think that they want to take eeevvveeerrything over. They have taken almost everything from the black culture. Our music, our way of comminicating, our ways of expressing ourselves through dress, the way we where our hair (perms what white person do you know that was born with hair so curly that they had an afro). I could go on and on. They came here and tried to imitate the first people who were on this earth, (African people, it has been proven, look it up), but they couldnt look like us so they made their skin pale and their hair straight. They reason why they have so many diseases and why their body starts to decay as they age is because the alien is dying. I think on reason these aliens hate us so much is that they can not be us no matter how hard they try.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/thefactsarepower/ thefactsarepower

    I have been reading all the posts Michelle Obama being compared to a gorilla which is completely foolish and ignorant; however, the majority of your posts are not factual.

    First, white people do not want to be black any more than black people want to be white.

    Secondly, the black population have the highest AIDS, HIV, Sickle Cell Anemia, drug addiction rate of all races.

    Third, 75% of black children are growing up in fatherless homes and most of the children have different fathers thus, all having different last names.

    Fourth, 85% of food stamp and child care assistance is received by black families.

    Fifth, 80% of our prisons populations are filled with black people!

    Yes, white people would just love to have those astonishing statistics~also, notice this is not an immature hate post, but factual. Pray about it~

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