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Feed them more bananas!
If you’ve watched the news in the last few days you couldn’t miss all the media coverage of the Justin Barrett case. In the fallout from the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest, the Boston Police Department has suspended an officer named Justin Barrett for using a racial slur in reference to the Harvard professor in an email he sent to the Boston Globe. He used the phrase “banana eating jungle monkey” to describe Gates in the email. This was poor choice of words. And in our current culture—— not a wise thing to say.
My skin is obviously light beige. I'm just furry.
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In the video below you’ll hear him below yap and say he’s sorry about how his word’s were perceived and how he was only referencing the behavior, not the man. Then goes on to say the standard line that “I have friend from all different cultures and races” blah blah blah. Doodiepants.com has devised a way better defense than that…….and no it’s not the Chewabaca defense.
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Question:
Why is it less acceptable to call someone with darker skin a “jungle monkey” then it is a person with lighter color skin? Isn’t more racist to not allow equal relationship with the phrase “jungle monkey”. I for one wouldn’t want my cultural\ethnic group of people attached to a phrase like that. Oh…..and the monkey’s skin color above lighter than Larry King’s. So I don’t even see a physical relation between dark skin people and monkeys. And monkeys live in many different geographical locations and aren’t in any way connected to any specific ethnic group of people.
Disclaimer: We view the comments of Justin Barret as completely unprofessional. But we do wish the world could someday get to the point where we can just insult people and offend them without any BS. I thought the point of insulting someone was to offend them; regardless of what race they are.
