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Originally Posted by barryem
Simon Winchester doesn't completely agree with you, or disagree. Did you watch the video? It's an excellent look at this part of this issue.
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He is welcome to disagree. A quick google search on his image tells me all I need to know about the quality of his opinion.
No, I did not watch the video.
Why don't you ask any Black person what their historical opinon of blackface was? I'm sure you could perhaps find some old black man and tell him what you just told me.
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Originally Posted by barryem
There were a lot of people who said that Amos and Andy was insulting to blacks; so many that it was taken off the air, including reruns. Then, a decade later black people and others began to realize that it was part of how whites began to perceive blacks as fully human.
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What?!?!
You think that black people began to realize that somehow it was a mark of honour that whites made fun of black people and perpetuated racist stereotypes for the amusement of the privileged stepping on the oppressed??
Wow..really, just wow.
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Originally Posted by barryem
Some say that the foolish character of Kingfish was insulting to blacks. Another show around the same time, almost as popular a show for almost as long, both radio and TV, was The Life of Riley, and the main character was even more foolish. And then there was Archie Bunker?
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I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. "Some say"?
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Originally Posted by barryem
These things aren't stereotypes of blacks or of whites. They're mocking the foolishness in all of us in exaggerated fashion and it's good for us. Leaving blacks out of that is what would be insulting.
Barry
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Wow. Your unconscious racism actually hurts. I looked at you as if we were kindred spirits, myself when I got a bit older but I can see that's impossible.
Those things are stereotypes of whites and blacks. Harmful ones that help the System.
They aren't mocking the foolishness in all of us. They are programming you to think whites are superior and to program blacks to think that we were inferior. That is nothing to celebrate.
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Originally Posted by barryem
What we're missing is a show with an oriental fool.
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First off, oriental is used to refer to rugs and vases, things, not people.
Second off, there were tons of shows with Asian stereotypes. Always played by white people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples_of_yellowface