Yogimus wrote:"i'm ok with that" is the only response to accusations of racism.
"But I have friends that talk to black people" is a better one, when you need to shut someone the fuck up.
It might shut them up quicker to say, " And you have friends who talk to black people, so you should know racist."
Taking the blackface out of "Holiday Inn" would be like airbrushing the famous cigarette holder out of pictures of Franklin Roosevelt.
The use of the word "but" usually indicates that everything preceding it in a sentence is a lie.
E.g.:
"I believe in Freedom of Speech, but". . .
"I support the Second Amendment, but". . .
--Randy
"Taking the blackface out of Holiday Inn" is what TV edits have done in perpetuity since about 1965.
It's also the reason Disney's Song of the South essentially no longer exists in the physical universe, why Heckle and Jeckle cartoons stopped running in syndication by the early '70s, and why the entire Sambo's restaurant chain (which had nothing to do with black people in any way, shape, or form) disappeared by the late 1980s. At this point only Dumbo, Twain's Huckleberry Finn, and the Washington Redskins seem to have the power to escape that cultural black hole. You should pardon the pun.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Aesop wrote:"Taking the blackface out of Holiday Inn" is what TV edits have done in perpetuity since about 1965.
It's also the reason Disney's Song of the South essentially no longer exists in the physical universe, why Heckle and Jeckle cartoons stopped running in syndication by the early '70s, and why the entire Sambo's restaurant chain (which had nothing to do with black people in any way, shape, or form) disappeared by the late 1980s. At this point only Dumbo, Twain's Huckleberry Finn, and the Washington Redskins seem to have the power to escape that cultural black hole. You should pardon the pun.
This is true. Although there are instances of Roosevelt losing his famous cigarette, which is admittedly a separate issue, and Huck Finn is a perennial favorite of book banners
The use of the word "but" usually indicates that everything preceding it in a sentence is a lie.
E.g.:
"I believe in Freedom of Speech, but". . .
"I support the Second Amendment, but". . .
--Randy
Windy Wilson wrote:Let's not forget that racist anthem, Irving Berlin's "White Christmas."
Great movie as well. One of my wife's favorite Christmas movie.
I tried to share one of mine. I have pleasant memories of watching Bing Crosby in 'Holiday Inn" at my grandparent's house. Unfortunately, I forgot about one of the character's doing a blackface routine during the middle of it. My wife got some outrage and refused to keep watching. Talked about that situation with my best friend. He made the comment that people get called racist for doing the blackface routine all the time, yet no one ever called the Wayans brothers racist for "White Chicks".
Or Eddie Murphy for that SNL skit when he did the same thing to "infiltrate" white society and the privileges they give one another.
There must be an end to this intimidation by those who come to this great country, but reject its culture.
That only works if you're a self-loathing liberal white. (I was going to add "male", but in regard to Perez, there's no way to prove that with existing technology. I notice you never see him and Chastity Bono at the same place and time.)
Conservatives get crucified regardless.
The sooner they accept this, stop taking prisoners, and instead hoist the red "No Quarter" flag, the sooner the monkey business will stop.
And I mean monkey business in the most NAALCP-inflammatory way humanly possible.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Personally, I'd do both.
Everybody needs to get a copy of that music on CD; we'll need it to blast at the perimeter when the minions of evil come to get us.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
