Lol, this would never be allowed on the air today: [video=youtube;sls5H4xVHys]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sls5H4xVHys[/video]
These types of cartoons provide a lot of insight into the mind of the creator(s) and their destructive aims. Denigrating cartoons are usually part of extermination campaigns so I don't find the humor in them. Some Muslims probably recognized this troubling aspect of such cartoons, which is why I saw their reaction to the Hedbo cartoonist as a defensive mechanism instead of an extreme reaction.
How far to carry it. I use to enjoy my mother reading me stories of Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox. The Uncle Remus stories. Remember the Briar Patch? Walt Disney did a version as, Song of the South which was vilified. I liked it. [video=youtube;g42_oEQnvkQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42_oEQnvkQ[/video] Then I was taught Not To Like It. Exemplary of Uncle Tomism. That lesson never took. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Remus And some of the stories were representative of African, folk lore passed among the slaves. Check out the link for an eye opener (or two). PAH-leeze check out the link and don't throw me it that briar patch. How far do we carry the fear of expressing racism. Ban Uncle Remus. Was he a pedophile or just a kindly, old, Black gentleman? Banned for that A shame because his stories are a link to Black oral history and folklore from Africa. Not just white guy fiction. Mark Twain next. Imagine a publisher's disgust as he refuses a script in Twainesque dialect (the pre War Between the States, South dialect). How was Twain ever translated into foreign languages? Maybe Eastern Euros used Gypsy accent for . . . Moi Zippity Do Dah [video=youtube;6bWyhj7siEY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY[/video] r > g No
I remember seeing these kinds of cartoons upon occasion growing up. I used to watch Amos & Andy (early all black comedy show on TV) I also had a racist Southern grandmother. Christianity taught me that prejudice is a sin. I didn't grow up to be racist and neither did most folks I grew up with.
I was expecting something a lot more offensive. I remember finding an old newspaper from the 1930s, was used as insulation. There was a comic in there and it took me a few moments to realize that the monkey-like character in the picture was actually supposed to be a black guy. That depiction alone is obviously very racist, but in the cartoon you showed the woman who got off the boat... was she supposed to be black too? The way she was portrayed was sexy, and in no way negative that I could tell...
Yeah, but do you remember that when Amos & Andy started on radio it was two white guys, and very few people noticed? Enjoy!
No I don't personally remember listening to Amos & Andy on the radio but I do know that they were white. Back then it was typical for whites to play blacks I guess because of discrimination in the entertainment industry. Thank God we have been able to enjoy all those great black talents that racism would have continued to take away from us.
And one of the greatest was Al Jolson. He would appear in blackface makeup and sincerely perform those negro gospels with all the feeling they deserved. Enjoy!
Will We Ever See her eating a big wedge of w'melon? Decades ago I worked with a Black Nurse. Very good one too. The office got some Watermelon and she helped prepare them but would not eat it in public. Moi r > g No
The white woman looked and sounded like Judy Garland--for those of you old enough to remember her. Very funny cartoon
