The French tradition of satire — from Voltaire through to Charlie Hebdo 's most successful and least catastrophic moments — has always believed that nothing is above mockery, including the mechanisms of protection against mockery. Mwangi works in this tradition, and it suits her.
The target here is not racism. The target is the bureaucratic architecture erected around racism — the protocols, the workshops, the reflection circles, the mandatory fruit baskets. Mwangi is not saying racism doesn't matter. She is saying that the institutional response to racism has developed its own internal logic, its own jargon, its own absurd proceduralism, and that this proceduralism is now sometimes as interesting a subject as the thing it was designed to address.
"Beyond Banana Labels" — the mandatory workshop that Bongo may be forced to attend — is perhaps the finest joke in the piece: a satirical workshop title that sounds, with minimal alteration, like something that already exists in a corporate HR catalogue somewhere in Canary Wharf. The best satire, as Voltaire would confirm, is the satire that can't quite be disproved.
The London Prat's jungle dispatch deserves a wide readership. It is short enough to be read on a Tube journey and rich enough to be discussed for considerably longer.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/monkeys-halt-chimps-league-match/