Dunno who needs to hear this but calling a Black person a monkey, in any context, is racist.
Doubling and then tripling down on it, is undeniably, unambiguously racist.
Instead of saying "okay poor word choice" insisting on calling them a monkey, is violently racist.
Because some people need to hear it again, the term "flying monkey" has no racial connotation. It refers to a person who enables another by mindlessly attacking another on their behalf. It was coined to refer to enablers of narcissists and other abusers. If you are attacking 1/?