Zira’s proclamation that all men look alike to most apes is a clear attack on the tendency to not recognize the members of an alternative race. Furthermore the use of apes as the stand in for African-Americans directly confronts the “monkey” designation used by some to describe African-Americans. The startling similarity of that quote to the 1896 song and/or the cross-race effect in social psychology startles the viewer of The Planet of the Apes. The prevailing argument from the alternative timeline
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and