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   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   >>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > >>>>> To the Sea Angel   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Riptide waves,   
   > >>>>> there goes the sea angel,   
   > >>>>> right above the waves.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> These mystery years,   
   > >>>>> where would I be without them?   
   > >>>>> What if I'd stayed happy?   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Years lost,   
   > >>>>> these last few I've played catch up,   
   > >>>>> drifting from the shore.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Barnacles on an olive shell,   
   > >>>>> brain choral in my mind.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Instrumental tune,   
   > >>>>> made by the incoming waves.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> I tossed a starfish back in,   
   > >>>>> watched it twirl away,   
   > >>>>> and thought of you.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> -Will Dockery (1997)   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> ***   
   > >>>   
   > >>> MMP: "Monkey" has often been used as a racial slur.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Historically, various minorities have been depicted as possessing   
   ape-like features.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Minorities that have been depicted in this fashion include J*ws,   
   Irishmen, Italians, and during WWII, the Japanese.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> That you would immediately jump to the conclusion that "monkey" =   
   "black," is telling.   
   > >>   
   > >> Dockery: I haven't seen these other specific depictions.   
   > >>   
   > >> MMP: There are many things you're unfamiliar with, Donkey.   
   > >>   
   > >> Dockery: Where does this put the "Planet of the Apes" series in modern   
   times?   
   > >>   
   > >> MMP: The same place "Monkey Planet" was when Pierre Boulle wrote it.  It   
   was intended as a comment on racism.  If there was any doubt, "Conquest of the   
   Planet of the Apes" made the parallels unmistakably clear.   
   > >>   
   > >> I don't remember any accusations of racism in comments on those books and   
   movies.   
   > >>   
   > >> Dockery: The use of the word monkey as racist seems mostly fairly recent.   
   > >   
   > > MMP: It's mostly from the caricatures of the 19th and early 20th   
   centuries.  By the mid-20th century (post WWII), racial stereotypes were   
   actively discouraged.   
   > >   
   > > In 1990, I almost got thrown out of college for writing a satirical letter   
   to the editor of the school paper wherein I mentioned Borel's infinite monkey   
   theorem.  So it was a sensitive word even then.   
   >   
   > Here's one of the 19th century examples:   
      
   One example from the comix that is often cited is Ebony from The Spirit by   
   Will Eisner:   
      
   https://thestopbutton.com/category/the-spirit/   
      
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