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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE
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To: sandintoes who wrote (19189)4/10/2008 7:10:57 PM
From: pompsander  Read Replies (2) of 25737
 
"What sports announcer called some black player a monkey? He said, something to the effect of "look at that monkey run." and he was fired immediately."

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No, that was Howard Cosell. He was not fired. There was a brouhaha for a couple of days but Cosell had a lot of credibility with the black community because of his support of Muhammad Ali. A week later, life went on as before.
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