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The monkey around the 15-20 minute mark...


umm....so the monkey has a jamaican accent?

yea, no subtext there.

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HAHA! When the monkey came on I leaned over to my girlfriend and said, "That's kind of racist..." I made sure her kid didn't hear.

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I also cringed. Such open racism.

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An ape, not a monkey...but still...I kind had the same thought. xD Not that there should be anything insulting about the chimpanzee, one of the most intelligent and amazing species on the planet...unless you already have some kind of association there. :/ After all, the cat's voiced by a white guy. Are cats somehow superior to chimps (which ARE African natives)? I understand the thought here, because obviously it was the first thing that jumped to my mind as well--but the more I thought about it, the more I had to wonder whether the implied "racism" would be on the parts of the filmmakers, the viewers, or both. xD;

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I noticed that it sounded like he said his name was "Dark Marcel". I think I died a little when he turned up.

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Du bist was du isst

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I don't see how a monkey having a Jamaican Accent is racist. Would you also be offended if they had an albino monkey with a white person's voice? Also what if it were two horses talking and 1 was white and 1 was black? Would the black one "legally" need to have an African voice for you Racist police and the white horse needs to have a white voice? The only way to be anti racist is to not See race. Calling something racist is just as racist as anything. So if you truly aren't racists which you have proven you already are, you would accept the fact the monkey has a Jamaican accent and move on.

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