monkey racist?

I have called many people a `monkey’ in my life… normally myself. When I call myself a monkey, it is normally when I have done something silly, and that’s when I would use it for someone else to. Silly, not in an offensive way.

But yes I also use it in an offensive way… normally to `belittle’ someone’s idiotic action. On one particular occasion I was playing a cricket match in an internal league at work. The opposition captain was really being an idiot. He was playing wicket keeper and sledging our players. He would talk to the batsman while the ball was in the air and this even lead to one team-mate going out… and being rather upset.

Sledging… part of cricket maybe. Talking while the ball is in the air… maybe only Mark Waugh would condone that.

But it didn’t end there, he was also shouting at his own team mates when they made mistakes. Basically he was a prat.

So I started chirping him. I am not quiet on a cricket field, and my `Makhaya Ntini’ noise was directed at him when he was batting and we were fielding. I repeatedly called him a `monkey’, because he was being an idiot… and not in an endearing way.

He stopped the game… called our captain, and accused me of racism.

Oh…. I didn’t mention that he wasn’t white. Why? Because it had nothing to do with the reason I was calling him a monkey.

So, was that what happened in India v. Australia?

Was Andrew Symonds being a wanker? So did the Turbanator basically say, ignore him, he is being a monkey? Or perhaps it had something to do with that silly sun cream he wears around his lips?

I would be VERY surprised if the reason he called this `awfuly well behaved gentleman of a cricketer’ a monkey was because he happened to not be white? Hmmm… the monkey I refered to happened to be Indian.

And I would venture to say Shane Warne was the biggest monkey to ever play cricket.

But that’s just my 2 cents worth.