"So not only does Danny Baker post an image comparing a baby African heritage to an ape, but he has the audacity to say problem is that those of us who point out how racist it is have 'diseased minds'," Hirsch tweeted. Journalist Afua Hirsch was one of those who criticized Baker's joke, dismissing his claims that he did failed to see its racist connotations. "Just got fired from he added a short while later. Anyway, here's to ya Archie, Sorry mate." (Though not of course in that context.) Enormous mistake, for sure. About Contact Georgia State Employment University Policies Office of the President Campus Maps. "Would have used same stupid pic for any other Royal birth or kid or even one of my own. chimpanzee (photo by Charles Menzel) DSC1696 edit. "'Do you think black people look like monkeys?' Any other time you'd knock someone right on their arse for saying that. cameroon, pongo-songo, man carrying chimpanzee (pan troglodytes) in forest - white chimpanzee stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images In this photo illustration a child with headphones is sitting in front of a picture of an ape on Apin Bonn, Germany. Opened door, grinning Mail hack," Baker wrote. The next day, Baker said reporters had come to speak to him directly about the tweet before saying he had been fired over it. Was supposed to be joke about Royals vs circus animals in posh clothes but interpreted as about monkeys & race, so rightly deleted. Sincere apologies for the stupid unthinking gag pic earlier. Now stand by for sweary football tweets."Īfter posting several tweets about the soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Ajax in the Champions League semi-final second leg being played later that evening, Baker, who presents a weekly show on BBC Radio 5 Live, posted another apology as the backlash against his tweet continued. Soon as those good enough to point out its possible connotations got in touch, down it came. "Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased. They were injected with brain tissue from patients with. Chimpanzees were irradiated to see the effects on their bodies. "Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up," Baker wrote. Early chimpanzee experiments ran the gamutfrom infecting them with virtually every infectious agent known, to using them in head crash and trauma studies, or as unwilling donors for organ transplants. "Royal baby leaves hospital," Baker had tweeted, attaching a black and white photograph of a well-dressed man and woman holding hands with a chimpanzee wearing a bowler hat and jacket.Īfter fierce backlash by users aghast at Britain's first royal mixed-race baby being seemingly compared to a monkey, the 61-year-old deleted the offending tweet and apologized. "Danny's a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us." "This was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as a station aim to embody," a BBC spokesman said in a statement. A BBC broadcaster has been fired after tweeting a joke about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's newborn baby using a photograph of a chimpanzee.ĭanny Baker, a veteran broadcaster and journalist in the U.K., earlier apologized for his "stupid unthinking gag," which he claimed was not meant to have any racist undertones.
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