Andrew Symmonds is sick and suffers from chronich inferiority complex. He pines for attention from his peers and countrymen, who have ignore him and treat him as a secondary citizen. This is evident from the fact that they never considered him as a captaincy material when he has keen interest and ample ability to do so. This is just case reverse discrimintation.
Finally, we all monkeys at least may be evolved from them. How does this word have any racially demeaning overtone? I believe this is in the eye of the beholder - Symmo's inferiority complex.