monkeys are used for comical purposes. to personify:
Ignorance, Playfulness, or Oddity.

i dont know if this ad was racist intentionally. but it is just not good to use.

i remember when people flipped out over Obama Sock Monkey. but that was not racism to me. Sock Monkey’s are a long time American toy and well loved.
but it is understandable why people took offense to it.

They could have settled for KITTIES

I knew a few black people who went to japan, every time they went into a store they where watched like a hawk. although many younger boys came and shook hands with them, possibly mistaking them for famous american rappers maybe?

japan has allot of racism, but its mostly just baseless suspicion of something that they don’t understand, you won’t find any hicks shooting somebody because the “nigger” looked at his daughter or something like that.