\n“Lock this monkey up in a cage next to Bubba. Go get the other monkeys in his gang and lock them up as well.”<\/p>\n“Blacks are far too lazy and co-dependent on whites to ever change — if they did who’d pay for their babies and food?”<\/p>\n
“If it happened on Mars, I’d say he was a Martian. But it happened in Logan Square, so I said he was an illegal. Wanna bet?”<\/em><\/p>\n
Who would write something like this? Some of our faithful, foul-mouthed readers, that’s who.<\/p>\n
One of my jobs as a Web editor at the Sun-Times is to moderate the reader comments on every article — and man is it a messy job. Are there really that many racist people out there? Would they really say such appalling things in everyday conversation? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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