Then perhaps daydream you would like to read this. http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/african/3-coon/6-monkey/
But just in case you can't be bothered, here is a short excerpt:
Much of the anti-Black ape association was directed toward Black celebrities, especially athletes, and it was often done outside of mainstream pop culture. Jackie Robinson, famous for integrating major league baseball in 1947, often was the victim of racial taunts. In one incident, visiting Cardinals manager Eddie Stanky mocked an injured Robinson by performing a limping ape routine in the visitors dug-out. He grunted, hooted and scratched his armpits. Such epithets directed against standout Black athletes were still happening late into the century.
Or perhaps you would like to read some indigenous history closer to home from the excellent Foley essays?
http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/essays/essay_8.html
In Australia Social Darwinism was also very popular, especially among the scientific community. Andrew Markus has said, โone doesnโt have to read extensively to discern that a central concern of anatomists was to establish whether Aborigines were closer to the animal than humanโ. The Elder Professor of Anatomy at the University of Adelaide in 1926 said that Aborigines were, โtoo low in the scale of humanityโ to benefit from โthe civilising influence of Anglo Saxon ruleโ. In the 1920โs and 30โs Australiaโs Aborigines were a treasure trove of curiosity for scientists and academics who believed that here was the โmissing linkโ species that would advance the cause of Social Darwinism. Consequently, thousands of Koori peoples in communities all over Australia, were subjected to the whims of โscientistsโ interested in such things as similarities between Aborigines and Chimpanzees, brain capacity and cranium size (one study in 1920 concluded that, โthe average brain capacity of Aborigines was between the normal medium intelligence of twelve or thirteen year old childrenโ) This Australian fascination with racial theories, phrenology and eugenics, closely mirrors a similar obsession with identical notions by German society of the same period in relation to the Jews.
Many eminent Australian scientists of the day were to express similar attitudes. In Victoria, as Christie notes, โThroughout the frontier years (between 1835 and 1850) the intellectual argument that the Aborigines more closely resembled โthe ourangoutangs than menโ made it easier for the squatter to treat the Aborigines as subhuman, to lump them with the dingo and shoot them as a โrural pest.โโ
...British settlers in Australia were imbued with a similar fear and loathing of Aborigines, who they considered to be closer to apes than humans. Those fundamental beliefs, stemming from extremist, white racialist notions, fuelled settler outrage when Aboriginal people sought to resist the invasion of their lands, and the numerous resultant โpunitive expeditionsโ bear a resemblance to the einstatzgruppen activities after Operation Barbarossa in eastern Europe. In other words, in both instances fear and loathing were powerful forces that produced both the motivation and justification for mass murder.
There is absolutely no excuse for this type of racism in this day and age.
And there is no excuse for anyone who thinks these comments were harmless.
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