Benjamin Cole and Rep. Aaron Schock are having a very bad week.
Benjamin Cole, Rep. Aaron Schock's (R-IL) communication director, is having a very bad week. First came the story of Aaron Schock's
Downton Abbey-inspired office remodel, which didn't paint
Benjamin Cole in the best of light and now
Think Progress has obtained Facebook rants comparing African-Americans to zoo animals.
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.”
For what it's worth, Benjamin Cole is a
former Southern Baptist pastor.
12:27 PM PT: That didn't take long. As of this afternoon, Benjamin Cole no longer works for Congressman Schock.