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Brickbats

Brickbat: Damn Dirty Ape

Charles Oliver | 3.6.2018 4:00 AM

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Officials in Corsicana, Texas, removed a statue of a gorilla from a park after receiving complaints it was "offensive" and "racially insensitive."

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