it's a tricky thing. Once upon a time, as a preschool teacher in Watts, I was the only white person in the school. I saw a kindergarten kid scamper up a chain link fence and I said "wow he moves like a little monkey". All eyes were on me, frowns all around -- it took a couple of heartbeats to process what I said wrong. Finally I said "Yikes ! I am SO sorry - I put my foot in that one - I say that about my little brother all the time and I forgot where I am." Luckily people had gotten to know mw and know how I meant it, but those kinds of comment go back to the time when it was just fine to use the N word and call a "colored" person a monkey.
Re: Fine to refer to Bush as Chimpy
it's a tricky thing. Once upon a time, as a preschool teacher in Watts, I was the only white person in the school. I saw a kindergarten kid scamper up a chain link fence and I said "wow he moves like a little monkey". All eyes were on me, frowns all around -- it took a couple of heartbeats to process what I said wrong. Finally I said "Yikes ! I am SO sorry - I put my foot in that one - I say that about my little brother all the time and I forgot where I am." Luckily people had gotten to know mw and know how I meant it, but those kinds of comment go back to the time when it was just fine to use the N word and call a "colored" person a monkey.
Re: chimpy
"Chimpy" is a term the very left apply to Bush II, There is a photo of him that looks very chimp like. He is aslo sometimes called "shrub" .