Monkey chants, throwing bananas at what the perpetrators feel are less-than-human races simply means that these rogues are culturally challenged men left behind by evolution.
He is also viewed as a courageous pioneer with regard to the racial discrimination he humbly endured from spectators who hurled monkey chants and bananas at him from the sidelines.
That one day of monkey chants gave him focus, a way to honor a nine-year-old boy's fears, just as a room of sneakers honors that boy's hopes and dreams.
