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...should duly be most troubling to the black community. There's a line of hip-hop apparel available in stores such as Footlocker, long a hotbed of black youth consumer activity, and others that should dismay black leadership. If memory serves me correctly, it's Fifty Cent's brand of hip-hop/youth oriented apparel and displays large, bold font on tee shirts, jeans and sweaters that reads: "400 lb. ape - official size and weight", as well as "400 lb. gorilla - official size and weight''. It has occurred to me and many people that I know that the worst culprits in perpetuating the black-people-as-simians myth is, well, black people. What with the constant, seeming unconstrained use of pejorative language that draws correlation to between other black individuals and simians used by other blacks, it's no wonder that the public at large are still scratching their heads over all this. Don't just assume that this is a phenomena unique to the white population, either. There're just as many, if not more, south east Asians, south west Asians, middle easterners, hispanics and other ethnic groups that still associate blacks with simians. Case-in-point is the comic book series that WalMart pulled off of the shelves a year or so ago that featured a young monkey widely perceived to be a black child, a favourite among Mexican readers, apparently.