**But I've seen plenty of white and Mexican kids acting crazy and I don't see their behavior being compared to monkeys.**
Didn't you ever sing this little ditty to a brother or sister you know?
Happy birthday to you.
You live in a zoo.
You look like a monkey,
You act like one too!
The one I remember at the end goes
Happy birthday to you
All the monkeys
In the Zoo give their best regards to you
Happy birhday to you.
Of course I sang that little rhyme as a child but the monkey appelation takes on a whole another dimension if a white person sang that to a black child.
The interesting thing is that it is not uncommon to hear blacks refer to other blacks as apes and monkeys.
Yet,like the N word,I wouldn't advise whites to go there.