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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “The Banana as a Hate Symbol,” on a recent kerfuffle in Texas over a banana holder that was used as a prop at a Texas city council meeting — and on whether the conventional wisdom that blacks are associated with bananas because of monkeys is in fact correct. (more…)
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“A Monkey-Themed Banana Holder Is Tearing a Texas City Apart” reads a Daily Beast headline that attributes so much magical voodoo power to a banana holder, one suspects it may have been written by a black person. (more…)