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Throughout his presidency, there were a lot of "jokes" made about his race.
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A lot of famous Black actors have been compared to apes, which then infers that they are not civilized or intelligent
A lot of memes focus on the idea that Black people are a "step behind on the evolution chart" and are still monkeys
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This meme makes the "joke" that saying Black people look like monkeys is offensive to monkeys, inferring that Black people are less than Monkeys
This image plays into the idea that black people are agressive and brutish, like apes
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A lot of the "jokes" fall back on the idea that they eat bananas, so they must be monkeys, which makes no sense
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Old cartoons often portrayed Black people as monkeys, in an attempt to support hegemony
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Another example, is comparing Black people to apes when it comes to them being criminals, since they are agressive and "less civilized"
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A lot of people were outraged when H&M decided to advertise a sweatshirt that says "coolest monkey in the jungle" on a young Black boy earlier this year
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Not only did some newspaper cartoons portray Black people as monkeys, but also portrayed them as being lazy
All of these images portray Black people as monkeys, along with including the stereotype that Black people love watermelon
This was an ad fighting against equality, portraying a Black man as a monkey next to a White man
This was a cartoon ad talking about a school that could make chimpanzee's human, supporting the idea that Black people were monkeys
Images like this were often used to try to prove the similarities between People of Color and primates
This image was a comparison of a young orangutan and a black man's skull to try and prove the similarities. The second image is a black man's skull, a white man's skull, and a monkey's skull, trying to prove that the Black skull is more similar to the monkey skull than it is to the White skull
This idea started when travelers would visit Africa in the 1700's and would record in their travel diaries that it appeared that the indigenous people had been mating with the monkeys
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It also contributed to the idea that they were lazy, or less equipped
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