SAfrica: Black vagrant dressed as primate, does monkey tricks and monkey dance to amuse majority white motorists

Black vagrant dressed as primate does monkey tricks and monkey dance to amuse majority white motorists in Rosebank. pic.twitter.com/4fFhcRMlcW

— Marc Evan Aupiais (@SACNSNew) February 14, 2014

I saw this gentleman Today when driving back from Rosebank. My first thought was of the monkey king, and then of a man in India, worshipped as a diety for his monkey tail (a mutation).

Then I thought of apartheid, of how black South Africans were compared to monkeys and so I felt deeply insulted. He jumps around pretending to be a monkey, doing tricks hoping to amuse white drivers and convince them to give him charity. To me it seemed dehumanising. I was upset by his escapades, clearly ones which paid off, that he is so kitted out for such.