you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey

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Proverb[edit]

you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey

  1. (ethnic slur, offensive) Black people, in the view of racists, behave badly regardless of their whereabouts or socialization.

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