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 ...
I saw the new move. Great movie, stupid metaphor.
Now you will think that King Kong is a Negro every time you see a picture or a movie. How Racist of you!
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Godzilla is a Negro, too. Godzilla is a Japanese denigration of African people. Hmmm that word- denigration... would that be akin to specialized ethnic cleansing?
I am embarrassed to not know that. Although I am a DC guy, my daughter works for Disney and she is a regular at ComiCon
It can’t be Disney since there is not another guy involved
Its easy to see why
No, but Rodan does
“Sounds like Coleman’s been rejected a few too many times by such types. “
From her screed:
“He escapes and asserts not only his physical prowess but also, potentially, his sexual prowess by abducting Fay Wray’s Ann Darrow, the blond, virtuous personification of white American womanhood.
Clutching the object of his forbidden, impossible desire, Kong is chased to the pinnacle of the inescapably phallic Empire State Building ... There, his savage defiance of the democratic capitalist order (and of firmly-defended racial taboos) sees him executed summarily by biplane.”
We don’t need to study Freud or Jung to figure out what’s going on inside her head.
They always project their own evils onto other people.
Maybe they will now remake SON OF KONG.
Instead of the island being destroyed by an earthquake, White SOK will warm himself with burning coal seams until the ice caps on the island melt submerging the island in avalanches and flash floods, unfreezing the ice plugs in the volcanoes and wrecking havoc on the world.
Actually Disney’s Jungle Book is pretty racist.As was ERB's Tarzan of the Apes.
Based on contemporary standards, of course.
When I hear “King Kong”, I think of the Larson cartoon with a guy munching down a burger at a diner, with the caption “Ever wonder what NYC did with King Kong’s body?”
executed summarily by biplane.”
“Question: Who thinks of African Americans when they see apes?
Answer: Democrats”
Maybe it’s Kong’s aversion to single engine airplanes ?
So she’s a believer in Evolutional Theory and Eugenics?
Godzilla’s French, btw. A product of their nuclear testing in the Pacific.
“”This is a big black man, a big black ape who is absolutely obsessed with ... white women.”
Kanye West?”
The libs were about to give away the end, when a hispanic man shot Kong when he was hopped up on Grape Drank.
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