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In reply to the discussion: What a shock, Gorilla Killa Mom is a Jay-sus freak [View all]saltpoint
(50,986 posts)mention by the mother in her public comment. I completely understand the role of Zoo personal pulling that trigger, as well as the trauma of killing a rare animal, one they almost certainly had come to love over a long period.
At one level, the thread imposes a linguistic or philosophical standard on a parent who might have lost her child (though who also allowed the child to slip free), yet on another level (rightly) condemns her reaching in to the slogan bag and pulling out 'God is awesome,' and this just did not cut it with me.
My first choice is that Harambe not have been in captivity in the first place, but I'm too damned old to expect that I'll get my first choices very often.
CincyDem, you are one class act and I thank you for that. If a 'Dem' you be, I would tell you that some (very) many years ago I volnteered for the mayoral campaign of one of my favorite Democrats ever, Roxanne Qualls. Would that Cincinnati had held onto her for a much longer time.