At two weeks old they were probably assholes...  

At a certain point babies act like monkeys (hanging on you etc), I've called my daughter a monkey or a little monkey...it had nothing to do with race.

My daughter tried to rip my nipple off yesterday, like a god damn rapid chimp or something... With her sharp little nails it hurt and she's shockingly strong for her size.

Your baby doesn't look like a monkey.  Your baby looks like a cute little baby.

I grew up in a German Catholic farm community in the Midwest where the women got married while in their teens and bore children from shortly after the wedding to menopause.  6 children would be considered "a good start". Now couples in that same community "get talked about" if they marry young and have more than three children.  Funny the difference one generation makes.

Hmm if I were to hear that, I wouldn't have thought anything of it.
Several  people I associate with call their small children monkeys.

Of course, I wasn't there to hear how it was said, so I may be off base.


But screw them.  They are worthless.

Possibly it wasn't a race thing. My wife calls our four kids monkeys (and I call them midgets). Or maybe it was in reference to the carrier?

That's a good one...gonna have to borrow that one....sage like & pithy...

Who gives a shit…

Look, when you go giving a shit what others say about you, you give them power over you. Are you really going to let some half heard, offhand comment, from some drunks you don’t even know affect your mood?

First off, you probably don’t really know what was going through those guys drunken heads. I’ve called babies and children “monkeys” before, including my very white nephews and my blonde haired blue eyed step grandchild. Referring to children as “monkeys” is not uncommon, derogatory, or racial. However I will say that is probably not what those drunks meant. But it might have been, you don’t know for sure.

Second, people have all kinds of stupid, violent, evil, and just plain wrongheaded thoughts running through their minds at all times. You do, I do, everyone does. Your mind is supposed to filter those thoughts, keep the good ones, and reject the bad, evil, stupid, and wrong thoughts. The thoughts you keep are the ones that make up your personality and become part of who you are. The thoughts you reject are just random crap that came into your head and got thrown out.

Drunks are often really bad about filtering out things and will say the first stupid thing that comes into their heads. Sometimes it’s just random drunk talk and sometimes the drunk thinks he will get a laugh out of his stupid comment. People on the internet also have a pretty poor filter and will say all kinds of stupid things for a laugh as well.

And third, there are bullies that will say all kinds of stupid shit just to cause you pain. I personally have plenty of experience with that and by the time I was 8 or 9 years old I learned not to be overly hurt by people’s stupid offhand comments. Like I said, you don’t want to give people power over you. Have you ever been for a walk in the woods and heard a squirrel barking at you? That squirrel is probably saying some really uncomplimentary things about you in squirrel talk. But you don’t care what it’s saying because it’s a frickin squirrel and you don’t care about what a squirrel thinks… My advice is to learn to treat most of humanity like squirrels in this regards.

Anyway, I do wish your family all the happiness and success in the world. Rest assured that the nasty comments of a couple of drunks does not reflect the opinion of society in general.

Your baby and wife are cute and that is an empirical fact.

OP, though, well, you are best viewed in a more impressionist form.  

couple of hateful cunts . that's who .

live well , love your kid , ignore haters .

To your daughter.

My brother and sister [paleface] both called their new borns " my little monkey"

Not to be the one to derail this "it's racist!" train, but are you sure it was meant as a slur?

I've heard people refer to children as "monkeys" my whole life, and it was never in reference to race...

Disgusting, and if I was a father and heard that, I'd likely be in jail for battery.

Ignore them OP, idiots are everywhere. You raise your kid right, she will excel farther in life than ones raised by the likes of them.

Awww she's adorable, and your wife shoots! win/win

Really?  Quite a few posters have said they innocently use the term.  I'm trying to give you and the OP benefit of doubt, but this butthurt overreaction shit is getting old.

Yeah we called our son 'Monkey-boy' from just before he could walk at 16 months until about the age of 5 or 6.
Thant kid could climb like a monkey

Screw the ignorant jerks, ignore them. If they get you upset they win.  Sad that people find the need to say things like that.

I didn't read anything in the thread other than OP post but it might have been not what you think.

I call my niece and newphew all kinds of things like "turkey" or "monkey" just to get a rise out of them.

They could have been doing the same thing but didnt realize the context, in other words it was possibly a harmless mistake.

Who says that about anyone? There are A-holes all over the place, dont let them affect your happiness over a new baby. And congrats on a healthy child.

I too was referred to as a monkey as a child.  That said, my uncle laughing at shenanigans is different than some drunk fucks making a comment about a biracial kid in a carrier.  

I was climbing trees and acting a fool, those guys suck.



Very cute kid.  Biracial kids usually are very attractive adults too.

That's a Vegitails bit done by Larry. I like that one. Twist ending.

Nah. They'd say, "post fetus. Pre voter." Children aren't people until they are old enough and can be bought and owned by the system to vote democrat.

F them, humanity will have pieces of shit, on the important note congrats on the little one.

That's grounds for a beat down in my book. Fucking assholes ruin everything!

 

Perhaps the comment was made due to you doing the baby toting, especially if you did so with one of those across the chest baby toting apparatuses with two women that could have been accomplishing that task trailing behind you.  

Yeah, I know times have changed but men of my era would not be caught dead doing such a thing.....Just saying.

That's your wife, BUT, dude....how could you?
She''s left-handed!!!

Cool pics of her & your daughter. Don't let a few drunked small brained morans (sic) get to you.

Assault and battery is justified because freedom of speech? Fighting two drunk guys in front of your wife, kids, and MIL at the fair over a possible racial slur sounds like a really stupid idea. Jail time, court dates, legal fees, and getting tagged with a charge while your youngest is two weeks old is not the ideal way to raise a family.

welcome to animal nature.

who brings an infant with apu\umbilical still chewy and probably still attached  ....to a 'fair' ?  carnies and ex cons running the show....  

i wouldnt.

You are winning at life.  Beautiful family OP.  Fuck those racist fucks.

I just read all six pages of this thread hoping that this would be explained, but apparently everyone already knows what the racist term for 'broken bottle' is.

For someone who doesn't know, can I get that explained?

I'm going to go on the "don't immediately jump to racism" side because that's what liberals do. But maybe go with the logical side.





See how those could be compared?

beautiful family OP!! the hell with the assholes at the fair. Karma has a way of biting people in the ass, they'll get theirs someday, props for keeping your cool

VERY well said. +1

Monkey is a commonly used word for little kids, white and black.  When my kids hang on me my wife calls them little monkeys.  Are you implying that my wife is racist to our white children?  Or do you just see everything as a racial issue?

After looking at the pictures, I doubt the drunks even knew your infant was half black.

Unfortunately, ignorance and idiocity has largely taken over.  Any bets on whether they were arf.com members? certainly plenty of racists around here .

i see nothing out of the ordinary here.... except putting the wife to tears is bullshit.  remember the Rambo m-60 radio room scene?

Nice family OP!  Enjoy the new, little one.  They grow up in the blink of an eye.

The monkey thing is tricky since it is commonly used when referring to children.  I believe that Howard Cosell was fired when he referred to a receiver as a "little monkey".

6 pages and not one Beamy Baby?

I personally think all babies look like lizards or old jewish men.
But thats just me.


Ignore the background noise, OP. There will be plenty of it, and plenty of other things to worry about the next 18 or so years.

Im a father of 2 grown ass young men that had HAVOC birthmarks on their foreheads.

Ok, broken bottle reference explained, please.

Whoa!! Slow down Chris Brown.

Monkey is a term of endearment that I and MANY use for kids, all kids, MY kids.


You were the one who injected race. I'd point and laugh my ass off at you for papoosing a newborn, but it wouldn't be about the kid or race or......

From a Buddhist perspective, try to imagine how sad and miserable they are to lash out at you like that. It is really sad,but also unacceptable behavior.

In these times of trouble, we need to work hard at putting ourselves in the other guy's shoes. All peace loving people want freedom and independence, but that does not mean that we should not defend ourselves if force and violence are waged against us.

This is how idiots get shot.

Monkey aside.....why are you taking a 2 week old out in the germ filled public?

Pics of full of WIN

Drunk assholes at fair are drunk assholes.

dont you guys think OP and wife have the mental acuity to discern whether 'little monkey' was said with malice or affection?  putting the wife to tears is a clue.....

I thought about that. Maybe the fair is safe to go to where OP is at, but I'm not taking my wife and family here. The fair is where you go to get food poisoning and shanked with a dirty kitchen knife.

When my daughter was first born we would call her a little marmoset monkey. I'm not agreeing with the assholes with what they said, its not their daughter. The cool thing about babies is that they are color blind and only become assholes if the parents teach them to be an asshole.

OP Congratulations to both you and your wife with the new addition.

I had to look up what biracial meant.  

People come in all flavors.  Avoid the flavors you don't like ......... or destroy them.  But mostly moving on is best.

ETA: I just looked at the pics.  I am thinking 'Monkey' was innocent.

I'll buy you a box of Kleenex as well.

Yea because a woman who had a kid 2 weeks ago is a great judge of emotion.