Yes, it’s true. Watch that scene in the 1933 version, where the Skull Island natives and Denham’s expedition work together to block the gate that keeps Kong out. It shows, without the need for lofty speeches, that the natives and the “whites” are in the same boat.

But in Jackson’s version, the *natives* are monsters – mindless, vicious murderers, totally without redeeming features, barely human…. and so Jackson tacks on an idiotic, phony “message” bit just at the end, and thinks he’s taken a stand against racism.