Thank you!!! People are so sensitive and badshit ridiculous now. Even the child's own mother said on the news how stupid this whole charade is. It's just plain craziness.

I was actually thinking that some parents do call their children "little monkeys" as an endearment, but can't say anything because I'm white and I would be s**t down in a millisecond.

Debbie Andersson. I strongly want to see racism to cease, I get I don't understand things from the perspective somebody who's black. I would not claim otherwise or claim any privelige over any fellow human. One thing I do get to see is that the "crying wolf" approach and the reactions that come with it worsen attitudes and not improve them. Crying wolf has weakened the word "racism", meaning people take it less seriously and it does mean there is this side that now believes that "racism" is just a snowflake term, because they believe people get offended by anything that COULD be interpreted as offensive when it wasn' meant as such. You may not take it from me that it is crying wolf, would you be prepared to listen to the boy's mother who said the same thing. The assumption is "they're ignorant" and this lack of discourse is just going to make things worse, as it has already been. I think racism is f****d up and want it gone but I don't see how the current approach is helping...

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Why does Robert Williamson have so many downvotes? he´s right for crying out loud. But no, here we have a ton of whites going "But -I- have opinions!" "But -IIIIII- have observatet this and that", "But -I!!III!!II!- as a white person can still see what racism is!!!!11!!", "But -IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII- this it´s racist to see the kid as a black kid and not just a kid!!!", we, as whites, do NOT go through the same racism as they do, we do NOT know the same pain, and we are not blind, we do bloody see the kid is dark, it´s obvious, but we have no right to treat anyone bad because of their skincolor, thats the thing...You wouldn´t expect someone who is colorblind to see colors the same way you do, exactly the same does racism work, we do not see the world the same as dark people do, the history is still there, they do not have the same opportunities with buying houses, getting jobs and so on because who whites f****d them over in the past, so tired of whites entitelment...

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In the UK monkey was used as racist abuse. Footballers had bananas thrown at them and monkey chants and noises when they got the ball. Why a white woman is trying to decide what is racist lord only knows. Maybe just shut up and leave blacks to know what abuse they have suffered.

I mean, everyone can see hes black, but does it matter? I think not

That was my first impression too: that I could not see it until they pinpointed it, so they must be the racist ones. However, upon further reflection, I understand the word has a very negative connotation for many black people because the truth remains, just as much as it has been used in a cute way to address children, it has also been applied as a racist remark. I believe it to be a marketing mistake, not a racist one.

It's not "racist" to identify a race. Racism cannot be eradicated by ignoring it. The concept of "colorblindness" to race is just another word for ignorance.