Cedo The Chimp | Real People | George Schlatter
Youtube channel: Real People
Video uploaded: Nov. 23, 2017
My thoughts:
Birthplace-based eligibility questions are nothing new. In or around the year 1980 a chimpanzee named Cedo ran for Office of Surveyor in Brookhaven, Mississippi (county seat of Lincoln County, Mississippi).
Cedo was born somewhere on the continent of Africa. According to the video he’d been living with Linsber Brister and his family on their Lincoln County farm for about eight (8) years in Mississippi.
According to an article in an archived newspaper called the Desert Sun (published in California on Sept. 12, 1980 and archived at the University of California, Riverside) Linsber purchased Cedo for $500 (or might be $1500) from a man who brought the chimp to Mississippi from Africa.
There’s not enough information available, or that I’ve found at least, to determine how long Cedo was in Mississippi (or the US) before he was sold to Linsber.
It should also be noted that an animal dealer from Louisiana (in New Orleans) offered to buy Cedo from Linsber for $10000. Linsber declined to sell and said, “Lord knows we need the money, but you just don’t sell one of your own family.”
Of course none of this is real serious business but it really did happen and it’s an example of birthplace-based eligibility being raised even when it’s a non-human running for public office. In this instance it seems like being non-human would have been a bigger issue but that’s not specifically challenged in this video or the newspaper article.
As we move further into a world of AI (btw, there’s no AI created content here on the WOBIK website) will AI agents who buy themselves robot bodies be considered eligible to run for public offices? They’re not alive and weren’t born anywhere. Cedo the chimpanzee was at least alive and proudly born somewhere in Africa.
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