Staffer Quits After Comparing Black People to Zoo Animals

Gawker: “Another calamity barreling out of Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock’s (R-IL) office today: Benjamin Cole, Schock’s senior adviser for policy and communications, resigned this afternoon after a series of racially-charged Facebook posts—including one in which he compares black people to zoo animals—were obtained and published by ThinkProgress.”

“In another since-deleted post, Cole writes that he ‘thinks they should build a mosque on the White House grounds,’ in an apparent dig at Obama.”