RAs tell UMass students Harambe jokes are an 'attack' on African Americans

An email sent to some students at UMass Amherst is drawing criticism after students were told not to make drawings about Harambe, the gorilla killed at the Cincinnati Zoo earlier this year. A photo posted to Reddit Saturday indicating it is from a Cincinnati area school shows a man in a gorilla suit mockingly fighting a child. In this May 30, 2016 file photo, Alesia Buttrey, of Cincinnati, holds a sign with a picture of the gorilla Harambe during a vigil in his honor outside the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, in Cincinnati. In May, Harambe grabbed a 4-year-old who fell into his enclosure and was shot and killed by zoo keepers.
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