In Facebook Posts, Cong. Aaron Schock’s Press Secretary Compared African Americans To Zoo Animals

BY JOSH ISRAEL POSTED ON FEBRUARY 5, 2015 AT 9:03 AM

In a series of Facebook posts obtained by ThinkProgress, the senior adviser for policy and communications to Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) posted racial comments and endorsed gentrification of his neighborhood.

Benjamin Cole, a former Baptist pastor and energy industry spokesman, posted a series of videos and comments on October 13, 2013 mocking two African Americans outside his DC apartment. In the first, he compared them to animals escaping from the National Zoo engaged in “mating rituals.” That message included a video of a woman, shouting and seemingly engaged in an argument with someone not visible as she walked. In each of his posts, he used the hashtag “#gentrifytoday.”





The National Zoo was closed that week due to a federal government shutdown.

The posts appeared to have been removed Wednesday.

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