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?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“You know what’s not racist? Disney. To prove it, Thor has a new love interest, on the right”
It’s a good thing that I looked. I thought you were going to say it was a guy.
Marvel is now owned by Disney.
Or KK Blvd for short!
Libs are racist.
Yes and the Abominable Snowman represents white people.
Mostly snowboarders.
I never associated monkeys with black people. It's not really a natural likeness. So, maybe, as usual, when liberals accuse you of something that doesn't even make sense to you, probably what's going on is that Liberals associate monkeys with black people and what they really means is we are quite sure conservatives think black people are more like monkeys than WE think.
This is an enduring pattern with Liberals. Whether it's unconscious projection due to guilty feelings, or whether they are merely using what they consciously do on a regular basis and believe as a matter of fact is up for debate.
One thing is certain: if they are accusing you of something, and you just kind of squint your eyes in a 'WTF are you even talking about' gesture, they have just accused you of something they do. It's how they came up with something that seems random on the surface.
Prof. Coleman continued......"King Kong was a metaphor for black masculinity. This is a big black man, a big black ape who is absolutely obsessed with ... white women."
Sounds like Coleman's been rejected a few too many times by such types.
Question: Who thinks of African Americans when they see apes?
Answer: Democrats
LOL!
Which one? Disney made more than one Jungle Book movie. There’s the animated one, there’s the live action one starring Jason Scott Lee, and I believe yet another Jungle Book.
Kanye West?
Last January I heard a guy saying that he was off work one day for Martin Luther King Kong Day.
I wonder how much money she makes a year bitching about white people, making stuff up and not teaching anything. I’ll bet it’s more than most. It’s hard to have a contest for most idiotic thing I’ve read this week when there are so many now.
I totally believe it; makes total sense.
The only thing missing is for some talented Freeper to photoshop a BLM tee shirt on the sucker...
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