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Originally Posted by sealbeater
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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I've never watched an episode of Amos and Andy, so I can't have much of an opinion about the content. But it is worth noting that there
is (apparently) some disagreement about it within the black community:
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In 1983, a one-hour documentary film called Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy aired in television syndication (and in later years, on PBS and on the Internet). It told a brief history of the franchise from its radio days to the CBS series, and featured interviews with then-surviving cast members, as well as then-popular black television stars such as Redd Foxx and Marla Gibbs reflecting on the show's impact on their careers. Foxx and Gibbs emphasized the importance of the show featuring black actors in lead roles and expressed disagreement with the NAACP's objections that had contributed to the program's downfall.
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