I've always thought there was something odd about VJ's upper lip, like it was solid. Now that someone mentioned it, kind of like the ones in the PotA movies. Maybe it's part of her ethnic background, maybe it's botox gone bad, maybe something happened to her, or maybe it's just the way she was born.
I think it's something of a leap to automatically assume it's racism just because there have been racist comparisons between blacks and apes.