user submissions to urbandictionary.com (none make the phrase a good one):

yard ape

1. Inbreed white "trash" species of the human race, not specifically human, that sit in lawn chairs outside their trailer homes with no more then 3 teeth in their mouth and drink Budweisers in Coozies.
"I don't like going through Park Place trailer park. All those yard apes stare at me all jealous like."

2. Black kids out in the yard. Usually many of them since Black culture looks down upon birthcontrol.
Mostly it defines lots of black kids playing in the front yard with the sprinklers in the summer because they have /or cannot afford air conditioning.
"Dont drive over on Franklin road, all those damn "yard apes" always play in the fucking road. I swear I'm going run one of them over!!!"


3.The term "yard ape" refers to a black person. It's derivation is from the lawn ornaments of black coachmen holding lanterns, or black children fishing, or many of the other lawn ornaments of that type. It has devolved into a perjorative term for blacks.
"Those yard apes drank all of my 40s"

4.
1.Semi-evolved or primitive person, characterised by speaking with grunts and moans. 2.Person of low intelligence. 3.Person who cannot master simple technology such as calculators or toasters. 4.Simpleton. 5.Native Australian (see boong).
"Aboriginals are such yard apes."

urbandictionary.com?



I had no idea that yard ape was a racial slur either. I thought it was just a clever handle. I say bring back the ape!

It's not a real dictionary. It's submissions by various users and from various sources giving possible variations of word and phrase origins. Not necessarily accurate, sometimes offensive.

Blanco = ("white") native of Spain transplanted to America
Criollo = progeny of two Blancos
Negro = ("dark") inhabitant (almost always enslaved) in the Americas
Indigena / Indio = (largely) interchangeable term for those living in Americas at arrival of Columbus
Mulato = child of one Negro and one Blanco or Criollo
Mestizo = child of one Indigena or Indio and one Blanco or Criollo
Sambo = child of one Negro and one Indigena or Indio

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Creole = Louisianan, white or black, with French background (correct?)

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Sambo = native, dark-skinned hero of a children's story set in India (there are no tigers in Africa, pips) -- not an African in story's context, then, and it's popularity in U.S. (for a time... sadly, not today) not a product of marginalization and stereotyping of blacks... I suppose dot-heads [sic] could take offense though... But, I never recall hearing the out-cry from empathic [sic] whites and Indians over the song, but rather empathic [sic] whites and African-Americans

To bring it back to music:

Jimi Hendrix era sambo. Lenny Kravitz es mulato. Vanessa Carlton es mestiza?

Y esta chica que conoci, cuando era (muy) joven (2 o 3 anos de edad), era verdadera judia negra. Ciara/Sierra es hija de una judia y un rastafariano.

A este punto, la unica "Black Jew" autentica de quien he oido. (Mama judia iguala hebraica -- "su mama es su mama, su papa se puede ser quienquiera.")

g wins this thread. Just sayin'.

Hey, call yourself what you want. I only know about the racial connotations because I'm in the South. Besides, I don't know what more than half the boards usernames mean. I was gonna call myself "trailer trash" over here, but I figured I'd use ))type(( instead. Really intended to be the same thing. See?

I was aware of its racial overtones but didn't think it was that big a deal... for a list of all racial epithets please visit the racial slur database at www.rsdb.org Quality stuff.

Lepracoon and Jewbacca are two of my favs!