For her actions, Hawkins, who is African American, has been subjected to a wave of racially fueled criticism that is truly appalling. She has received hate mail, with comments like "You are a filthy, dirty, ugly subhuman gorilla," and "Let's hope that AIDS will do what sickle cell anemia failed to do, exterminate your whole simian race," the Daily News said.
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