Please excuse my ignorance but I gotta ask why I heard this term several times on my last reach. Hopefully everyone here knows that I don't hate any race but that thingy in my head will not let me sleep at night without understanding stuff.
So, the term is monkey or monkey man. I've heard both in reggae songs and also as negative references to black people but more than once this reach it was used more like a casual reference to dumb people maybe without regards to race.
Generally I'm quick to snap at anyone regardless of color for saying the "N" word for many reasons. This time I snapped at a few people for the monkey term and they corrected me saying it was just a term for a dumb person without regards to race. For me, it seems like the evil references to black people being like monkeys but to some Jamaicans its just a casual term...
Thoughts?
Toots and Maytals song