Maybe I missed something, but if I want to hear someone talk about african wild life and its behavior, I am going to take what a Maasai tribe member says a lot more seriously than what some professor, who MAYBE has spent a few months in Africa has to say- its not racist at all... Its just an aknowledgement of the person's unique knowledge-

If you go to a museum on native american culture would you really take a British tour guide seriously? Granted the article was about a zoo, not a museum, but the Maasai KNOW the animals in question in a way few people do- who better to educate people about them?

I think its a bit of political correctness taken way too far and the Seattle Times decided to run with it- I doubt that many people were upset before the article....