fsilber:

When a white man insists that black men look like apes, isn't it reasonable to assume that he's a racist?

How is it any different if he tells us that a black man on a magazine cover looks like King Kong?

All human beings are descended from Apes-Some evolved in subtropical areas where black skin was needed as protection from the sun. Some migrated to northern latitudes and no longer required the large amount of melanin. That is the only difference