Editing Banana (section)

=== Racial signifier ===

{{See also|List of ethnic slurs#Banana|Racism in sport}}

In European, British, and Australian sport, throwing a banana at a member of an opposing team has long been used as a form of [[racial abuse]].<ref name="Mills-2016">{{cite web |last1=Mills |first1=Charles W. |last2=Hund |first2=Wulf D. |title=Comparing black people to monkeys has a long, dark simian history |url=https://theconversation.com/comparing-black-people-to-monkeys-has-a-long-dark-simian-history-55102 |website=The Conversation |access-date=13 July 2024 |date=29 February 2016}}</ref><ref name="Jackson-2014">{{cite web |title=The ugly, racist trend of tossing bananas at black soccer players continues |first=Allison |last=Jackson |website=The World |date=13 May 2014 |url=https://theworld.org/stories/2014-05-13/ugly-racist-trend-tossing-bananas-black-soccer-players-continues |access-date=13 July 2024 |others=[[Agence France-Presse]], [[GlobalPost]]}}</ref> The act, which was commonplace in England in the 1980s, is meant to taunt players of [[Black African]] ancestry by equating them to apes or monkeys.<ref name="Evans-2016">{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Richard |title=Richard Evans: Throwing bananas at black sportsmen has been recognised as racism across Europe for decades |url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/richard-evans-throwing-bananas-at-black-sportsmen-has-been-recognised-as-racism-across-europe-for-decades/news-story/afcb5d4a634119b327507e7616755e0b |access-date=13 July 2024 |work=The Advertiser |date=22 August 2016 |location=Adelaide}}</ref>