Triggered by Banana Peel

[Pat Mustard]

Now, them hanging on trees... there's a message there. Forgive me the Portuguese ignorance, what is the origin of this racial slur? bananas???

The thinking amongst racists (especially racist soccer hooligans) is Black people=from Africa, apes=from Africa, popular culture maintains that apes love bananas (and the racist idiots think bananas are African too!), therefore if you throw bananas at Black people then like the "apes" that they are they'll start pining for Africa and return. Or some such.

Of course that's forgetting the little fact that white people are both African and apes, too.