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DeRay Mckesson Is Super Angry About ‘Planet Of The Apes.’ He Thinks It’s Racist. There’s Just One Problem.

Hank Berrien

On Monday, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson decided to promote the idea that “racially coded messages” may be in the new film War for the Planet of the Apes.

Mckesson tweeted, then later deleted, this, as he circled an ape with a blue vest, whom he thought was supposed to be Mckesson, who wears a blue vest:

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