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The Comparison of Black People to Primates (ae438887bf (images-10 (images…
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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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A racist meme not only saying Black people are a different species, but then saying they are inferior to White people
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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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This meme makes the "joke" that saying Black people look like monkeys is offensive to monkeys, inferring that Black people are less than Monkeys
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This image plays into the idea that black people are agressive and brutish, like apes
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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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This image is supposed to depict Jackie Robinson, the first Black Major League baseball player. He was also tormented with opposing players making monkey noises whenever he was on base
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Cartoons also depicted Black people as monkeys to try and prove that they were less civilized than White poeple
It also contributed to the idea that they were lazy, or less equipped
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Both of these images portray Black people as monkeys, along with including the stereotype that Black people love watermelon
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A very early journal entry depiction of an elderly Black man, depicted as an ape-like being
A post card featuring old cartoons portrayed Black people as monkeys, in an attempt to support hegemony
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Not only did some newspaper cartoons portray Black people as monkeys, but also portrayed them as being lazy
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Nott and Glidden, comparison between Black male and Gorilla
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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
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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
