The first time my wife showed me a photo of her that somebody put on social media pictured next to a monkey, I wondered what kind of sick-minded, evil person could have done something so vile and disgusting to another human being? As far back as I could remember, putting a black person in any context with that of an ape was nothing to laugh about. It was something you just didn't do. After I saw all the pain and suffering this caused the woman I had loved for seventeen years, I had to find out how and why this happened.