You may not find anything racist in monkey. But its okay. You don't know half the things that go on in the world.
Follow European football and you'll know what Monkey means to a person of African origin. Monkey chants have got fans life banned from games. If you still don't get what's wrong with Monkey-African connection, when you call a person of African origin as monkey, it means they have still not evolved fully into human beings, and are still living up in the trees..
Got it mate? That is what was explained to Harbhajan earlier during Aussie tour of India..
He still seems to have used the slur again.. I'm not saying he DID, but he may have. That's what's wrong.
And BTW Symonds does look like a monkey because he is from African origin. And THAT is what's wrong to call the African people as.