MONKEY

So today was a typical day off of mine, where I am running errands and doing everything that needs to be done when I am not at work or VB. So today at Walmart I am doing my grocery shopping and than got in line to pick up a perscription for Marlee today. As I am standing in their typical 20 min line there is a black lady next to us in the same isle and she is looking at the cough drops and what not. I was holding Mya and Mya said "mama monkey", and I figuring that she was looking at a monkey on a package somewhere. I was like "yea hunny do you see a monkey", not even turning around to see where she was seeing the monkey. She said it a couple of more times and this black lady turns around and says in a very harsh, rude tone, "I am not a monkey!" I turned around and was like "excuse me", than she said " your child keeps pointing to me saying monkey, and I am not a monkey." I said " oh I think she is not meaning you, she probably see's a monkey on some packaging or something" (as a quickly glance at the items on the shelf trying to figure out where she was seeing it). There was none, so she must have been meaning this black lady. I just said "oh I am so sorry, she doesn't understand yet, she is only two." I than got a nasty death glare and told once again she was not a monkey. I than saw her husband walk up to her in the isle, which he was a very large man, and she must have told him what happened because he looked pissed and started walking towards me. The lady than said "no let just go" and he turned around and they left. I wanted to crawl in my own skin, I felt terrible, I felt horrible. She might as well have called her the "N" word! I know back in the days people would call slaves and stuff monkies, but lady trust me I don't teach my 2 year old that. But after the total embarressment wore off, I was like are kinding me lady, she is two. She wasn't trying to be mean, and do I look like someone who teaches her that black people are monkey's, she's two, she doesn't know racial slang! I was mad she got that mad at her, Mya didn't know any better. None the less, I was so mortified! It makes me so nervous to bring Mya around a black person again. I really don't know where she got that! I promise I am a good mom and don't teach her such awful things!