Last Saturday, this cute, yet somewhat terrifying baby gorilla was born at the Oklahoma City Zoo. She weighed 4-pounds and probably needs her eyebrows trimmed:
Unfortunately, the baby’s mom decided to take advantage of our state’s “Safe Haven” laws and abandoned her child.
Via News 9:
The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden welcomes a new member to the family. A female Western lowland gorilla was born in the early hours of Saturday, August 16, inside a Great EscApe day room to mother Ndjole and father Togo.
The baby gorilla weighed a little more than four pounds at birth, and she appears healthy and strong. However, zoo officials said the mother has not demonstrated any signs of maternal care toward her baby since giving birth, and the Zoo’s veterinarian team and gorilla keepers have made the decision to hand rear the infant.
“Ndjole was given several opportunities to bond with her baby within the first 24 hours and didn’t show any interest in her, putting the newborn’s life at risk,” said OKC Zoo Veterinarian Dr. Jennifer D’Agostino.
According to officials, caregivers will provide around-the-clock care for the infant gorilla in an off-exhibit area in Great EscApe to keep the baby in close proximity to other gorillas. It is the Zoo’s goal to explore every option to reunite the infant with other gorillas as soon as possible.
That’s depressing. Ndjole better return all the gifts the other female gorillas gave her at the baby shower. You can’t keep the stuff if you reject the baby.
Obviously, once news broke that a cute little baby gorilla was born at the zoo, the social media bandits from all four TV news stations pounced on the clickable OMG! CUTE! ADORABLE! story and posted it on Facebook. As we know, there’s nothing they love more than a like-inducing post about an animals.
Unfortunately, this woke up some Derplahomans who were sound asleep in their double wides. Never afraid to share their racist, 19th century views on the world, they took a break from sewing confederate flags to dazzle us with their sophisticated humor.
Here are 18 totally real Facebook comments I took from the Channel 4, Channel 5 and Channel 9 Facebook pages.
Serious question: do the local news channels not have anyone out there to moderate their Facebook pages? How can you allow blatantly racist stuff like that? The right to free speech doesn’t protect you from being a racist on someone else’s Facebook wall.
To bait the Derplahomans, the fledgling KOCO Channel 5 Social Media Bandit even asked for suggestions on the name. What could go wrong with that?
In all fairness, not everyone posted something blatantly racist. I’d say 95% of the comments were positive and had nothing to do with race. Some people even took on the racists:
Anyway, I hope everything turns out well for the yet to be named baby gorilla. On a positive note, at least she’s a gorilla and isn’t aware of how idiotic, stupid and embarrassing some of the humans out there in the world can be.
Best sentence: “On a positive note, at least she’s a gorilla and isn’t aware of how idiotic, stupid and embarrassing some of the humans out there in the world can be.”
^^^ Did not skim the article. At all.
I’m just relieved (and quite frankly shocked) that none of my classmates made the Derp list this time.
What I was thinking too!
David Patterson looks like a catch.
A thumb with a face….
Thank you, TLO, for calling out these 18 pieces of shit. Sadly, there were actually more than that. I too was fearful when I read KOCO’s encouraging of names for the new baby. I actually replied to one of the racist dickholes yesterday. Do these people have no filter or sense of right or wrong? Just, … wow.
“I actually replied to one of the racist dickholes yesterday. Do these people have no filter or sense of right or wrong?”
That’s perhaps the most ironic statement ever posted in the history of the internet. Is your filter broken?
Dumbass.
Ironic? Really? Well, if you think the good folks of the nation of Dickholia will find my comment equally racially offensive, then yeah, you got me. Or, by your logic, maybe calling someone a “dickhole” is on par with someone making deplorably racist remarks.
You see, one is just name calling and the other is racially charged and generally frowned-upon commentary. Childish on my part? Maybe. Ironic? Hardly, Alanis. So, upon further review, I believe the filter is working fine.
Even bigger dumbass.
+1
the good folks of…
This thing is just plain ugly, nothing cute about it.
Gerrn B wins for referencing and Alanis Morissette song. No oneed saw it coming. Congratulations, sir or madame.
And the Buddha said
“with our thoughts we make the world” The opinon pages speak volumes of a culture’s inability to evolve. Look at the history of the state, Tulsa’s race riots of the 1930s, the treatment of native Americans before state hood. The disgusting truth is this country is founded on the same ideaologys that fuel the hatred and racism that your seeing in those post. Only over time have we evolved to allow women and all races a chance to be heard, my personal opinion of these lost souls is that a bus ride up to Ferguson Missouri would open there eyes. But alas even I am at fault here, for it was Gahndi that said. “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.
The Tulsa race riots lasted 3 days in may of 1921, not the 30s, 39 people were killed, over 1200 were admitted to area white hospitals. Thank you Wikipedia, my heart bleeds for Ferguson, Mo.
And even those facts of the death toll are sketchy. The Tulsa Tribune said 62 died some accounts say up words of 300 perished. Its a really fascinating read, and could explain the racist post mentioned in the article. It would seem Oklahomans are still evolving .
Some of us are a LOT more highly evolved than others, I assure you. I cringe when I see things like this.
Sad… Really sad.
I’m more offended by how uncreative the racist comments are. Oprah, Obama, yeah that’s fresh.
I suppose their criteria for selecting those names was something along the lines of “black people who are more successful than me”.
If you want to see where the fight is just check out democracy now. The world is watching st.Louis, military tactics used against the local populace. This is America…
This is so tragic. It only goes towards further fueling the rumors that Oklahoma is a backwards racist cesspool of rednecks