Danny Baker (ND)...

[Matty]

...is, if Twitter is to be believed, a closet racist who's waited 40 years to post a picture of an monkey in a suit and show his true colours.

Yes, it was stupid, and part of me doesn't understand how he didn't make the link in this day and age, but it seems like a genuine mistake and they've hung him out to dry. Seems harsh - I notice Dara said similar (not defending it, but saying the sacking was harsh) and he's getting pilloried too.

[Zonda_]

I don't think it was harsh at all. It was plain racism and no company in the public eye could allow someone like that to represent them.

[NotoriousREV]

It was really fucking stupid and ignorant. I don’t believe he’s a racist person but he’s supposedly a clever bloke and should have spotted the connotations of what he was posting. Sacking him was the only option open to the BBC. Being accidentally racist isn’t OK either.

What’s really fucking stupid is his constant attempts to justify it. His response has been to say “it was a terrible thing, I apologise but come on...blah, blah, blah”. Just apologise, explain it once and let the fuss die down, ffs.

[JLv3.0]

Fuck me - how did he expect that to go?!! What a fucking mumbloid.

[Broccers]

Professional offendz are out in force.

[ste]

It's all a bit fucking strange. How do you not expect a photo of a couple with a chimpanzee to not have racist connotations?

[dinny_g]

For a man so into his Football, as he is, to claim he didn’t make the connection between Monkey and Black or Mixed Race person is so frankly unbelievably it beggars belief.

Deserved everything he got

[Simon]

Fuck me - how did he expect that to go?!! What a fucking mumbloid.

I'm offended.

[Carlos]

It's all a bit fucking strange. How do you not expect a photo of a couple with a chimpanzee to not have racist connotations?

I must be some sort of country bumpkin as I didn't see it as racist but if I'm honest I didn't even realise she was black/mixed race.

I thought he was mocking the Royals for parading the new borne around like a puppy.

[Rich B]

I can believe it was a mistake, but he should have known better. Suck it up, you fucked up.

[Simon]

Our baby will be mixed race, but I've never even thought about that when I try and picture what he/she will look like. I just see a baby in my head.

Baker isn't racist, he's just an idiot.

[JLv3.0]

I thought he was mocking the Royals for parading the new borne around like a puppy.

Perhaps then, just maybe, compare it to a puppy? Or are chimpanzees often paraded around in a similar fashion where you're from?

[evostick]

I've seen that pic used to celebrate a royal birth before.

It wasn't racist then and it's not now.

Except it is in the minds of people that think that chimp in a suit = black person.

I didn't even know that the baby was mixed race and I expect that the extremely unfunny DB didn't either. I guess that doesn't matter as we now have to police all online content as if we're all incapable of thinking for ourselves.

Time to switch off the internet.

[JLv3.0]

I've seen that pic used to celebrate a royal birth before.

For reals?

[NotoriousREV]

It wasn't racist then and it's not now.

Except it is in the minds of people that think that chimp in a suit = black person.

You want to explain that to the black footballers having monkey noises directed at them during matches, for example?

[Jobbo]

I wonder which old friend of Danny Baker might recruit him to his radio station...?

I’m quite fond of Danny ‘Daz Doorstep Challenge’ Baker. I can see that he posted it to pillory the freak show nature of the royals but I can see the connotations. Maybe he should have posted a nice innocent picture of Noddy, Big Ears and a Golly.

[evostick]

It wasn't racist then and it's not now.

Except it is in the minds of people that think that chimp in a suit = black person.

You want to explain that to the black footballers having monkey noises directed at them during matches, for example?

Yeah, they should be encouraged to ignore morons too.

He wasn't making monkey noises at a black person though Dave. Not that it matters what he actually did because he's been tried and convicted already.

[Zonda_]

I refuse to believe anyone who claims they didn't know the baby was mixed race unless they have been in a coma for several years.

[Mito Man]

He’s 61 years old, probably a little racist on age alone. It’s the kind of silly thing an older person would say or do to a closed group and no one would bat an eyelid but the idiot did it on Twitter.

The biggest racist is little Archie’s own great grandfather

[Swervin_Mervin]

I refuse to believe anyone who claims they didn't know the baby was mixed race unless they have been in a coma for several years.

This.

I think he's a twat but not racist. I reckon he was pissed.

Ah well, bell ends be bell ends