Posted on 03/12/2017 4:22:42 PM PDT by Zakeet
With a new movie about King Kong coming out, a whole segment on NPR was devoted to proving that the fictional King Kong monster is actually a commentary on black people. The show interviewed Robin Means Coleman, a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Michigan who specializes in studying King Kong.
Yes, you read that right: a professor of Afro-American studies whose specialty is ... King Kong.
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This is ridiculous. Yes, in the past, some racists have compared blacks to monkeys. But that does not mean that all portrayals of monkeys are about black people.
In the original Planet of the Apes movie, the main chimpanzee was played by Roddy McDowall, whose voice was obviously very white-sounding (and more than a little gay). No one said the Planet of the Apes movies were about black people.
In Star Wars, the character of Chewbacca is obviously monkey-related. But no one says Chewbacca is a slur on black people.
Is Disney's Jungle Book racist for having a monkey in it? Is Tarzan racist as well? And what about computer games like "Donkey Kong"? Is "Donkey Kong" a game made by racists who want to give white people the ability to make black people jump in the air repeatedly?
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Coleman is a moron. King Kong was intended to represent that part of us which feels like a misunderstood outsider in our own world. He’s viewed as a monster, then becomes an antihero. He only climbed the Empire State Building in the first place to protect Fay Wray’s character.
I swear, black people see racism when the sun rises.
Leave it to the liberals to make disparaging remarks like this - I wonder if they told Samuel Jackson about their findings.....
Just add King Kong to the very long list of “racist” stuff. The stigma of “racism” has lost its sting.
Funny on how a satirical cartoon of a man with a monkey tied to a wind up box during the Obummer presidency is racist and now they want to say King Kong represents black people. Will they make up their friggin minds? Are monkeys racist or not!
Some would say this is an insult to gorillas. The behavior of Africans with a leftist inclination is far worse than higher apes. This expert on Kong should drop the stupidity.
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