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

A racist meme not only saying Black people are a different species, but then saying they are inferior to White people

A lot of the "jokes" fall back on the idea that they eat bananas, so they must be monkeys, which makes no sense

This image infers that there is a similarity to a man sagging his pants and a baboon's butt

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

Comparing young Black children and monkeys can seriously damage their self-esteem and self worth

Comparing Black basketball players to monkeys is another old and very common stereotype

Another example, is comparing Black people to apes when it comes to them being criminals, since they are agressive and "less civilized"

A baby doll was sold along with a monkey plush animal and on the hat it said "lil monkey"

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

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

Both of these images portray Black people as monkeys, along with including the stereotype that Black people love watermelon

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

Not only did some newspaper cartoons portray Black people as monkeys, but also portrayed them as being lazy

Nott and Glidden, comparison between Black male and Gorilla

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