Yeah and they are enslaved by a white guy who goes around conquering shit for the money.

The metaphor is there, but its also a bunch of Asian (or at least white) dudes in a series where there is like one black dude period, and almost nothing to do with a single other black relevant thing (the only sport is fucking baseball). By all stated forms of "representation" the rest of them demand, it should fail yet it became a classic.

Also the Latinos love it the same, so its not just the violent monkey people thing at work.