A Monkey-Themed Banana Holder Is Tearing a Texas City Apart

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Courtesy of Nicole Calderone, The City of Hutto and Getty ImagesThe City Council meeting in Hutto, Texas, had been in session for just a few minutes on Aug. 31 when local resident Nicole Calderone stepped up to the podium, moments after another speaker angrily rebuked Mayor Mike Snyder.What happened next would plunge the city of less than 40,000, just a half-hour drive north of Austin, into a ferocious debate about racism. At the center of the c

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