Remembering Harambe

The national anguish over the death of Harambe the gorilla continues. Jane Goodall wrote in a letter that "it looked as though the gorilla was putting an arm round the child."

Harambe was a seventeen year old gorilla that was just turning his life around. He recently accepted a basketball scholarship to Purdue University. And, he didn't do nothing.

President Obama visited Elhart, Indiana, to try to understand why the citizens there aren't rapt in adulation for Chicago Jesus. They don't seem to be giving him credit for the economic recovery. It reduced the President to a stuttering, muttering mess.

It must be racial, then.

While Obama seemed to be searching for the right words to understand Elkhart's lack of gratitude, he was eloquent in discussing Harambe.

Obama said, wiping a tear from his eye, "I don't have a son, but if I did, he would have looked like Harambe."

A few moments later, Obama added, his voice rising with indignation, "It's clear that the zookeepers acted stupidly."

The accounts of people who witnessed Harambe's tragic death are stunning. Jorge Zimmerman, visiting from Florida, was among those eyewitnesses. "After Harambe was shot, and his life was draining away, he looked pleadingly into the boy's eyes, as if to say, 'earn this,'" Zimmerman said.

The world of celebrities took the news of Harambe's death pretty hard, too. Debra Messing was taking a selfie when news of the shooting broke.

This was an excellent way to make the story of a silverback's death about Messing instead.

Hmmm, Debra's so dumb, she thinks Harambe was murdered at UCLA. Dumb broad.