TIFU By Accidentally Referring to a Black TV Show Character as a “Monkey”

So, I’m participating in a summer Rock Band Camp in a few weeks, and so is my sister. We are currently practicing the songs that were just revealed to us, and we have charts showing what instruments everyone plays for each song. There is one kid on the list named Lucas, (We haven’t met nor seen him yet) and she randomly mentioned that she‘s expecting him to look like Lucas from Stranger Things. Now this is the bad part lol… So, I remembered the character she was talking about, and I was going to say “Oh yeah, the black kid?”, to show that I knew which character she was talking about. But… I guess “the black kid” felt kinda weird and racist to say, so for some unknown reason, I instead opted to say “Oh, THE MONKEY?”

I have no idea where it came from, it just felt less racist somehow, even though it obviously isn’t!!! Anyways, we kind of just laughed about it, and I frantically took it back, but now she’s saying she‘s gonna tell the kid named Lucas at rock band camp that I called Lucas from stranger things a monkey… I really hope she‘s joking 😭

TL;DR: I accidentally called the character Lucas from Stranger Things a monkey in an attempt to sound not racist, and it did not work out at all.