Macaca
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Welcome to the board!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaca_%28slur%29 Macaque[1] (allegedly[2] also pronounced[3] and spelled macaca[citation needed]) is a dismissive epithet used by francophone colonials in Central Africa's Belgian Congo for the native population. [4] It may be derived from the name of the genus comprised of the macaque primates. The genus name Macaca is the Latin-ization of the Bantu or Kongo ma-kako[5], monkeys.UsageThe first European settlers in the Congo Free State derogatively referred to natives as macaques, according to an anonymous Italian account: [6] Later, in the Belgian Congo, colonial whites continued to call Africans macaques and insist that they had only recently come down from trees. The term sale macaque (filthy monkey) was occasionally used as an insult.[7] The word is still occasionally used in Belgium (both in Flanders and in Wallonia) as a racial slur, referring not to Congolese but to Moroccan immigrants or their descendants. In the ceremony in 1960 in which Congo gained its independence from Belgium, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a speech accusing Belgian King Baudouin of presiding over "a regime of injustice, suppression, and exploitation" before ending "We are no longer your macaques", as the Congolese in the audience rose to their feet cheering.[8] In the Adventures of Tintin written by Belgian writer-artist Herg??, Captain Haddock uses the term macaque as an insult, along with other terms with racial overtones.[9] In a 1994 essay, literary scholar Patrick Colm Hogan discussed the racist symbolism surrounding the name Makak, the protagonist in Derek Walcott's 1967 play Dream on Monkey Mountain.[10] 
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