Every race, ethnicity, creed, gender, lifestyle, etc has it's stereotypes.
Gay interior decorators, Chinese laundry, Hispanic gardeners, Irish cops, Italian gangsters, etc...
This film merely provides a brief look at how blacks have been portrayed in the past.
These images are just a small sampling of how black people have been portrayed on a daily basis for many, many years.
The seven second scene that starts at 1:40 was not meant to be in the final edit. It was used as a "marker" for several shorter shots and was accidentally left in.
I'm am working on a newer version, to help clean-up several editing errors.
All of the clips used in this film were shown on television up until the 1980's.
Many episodes of the Little Rascals have been "ethnically cleansed" over the years.
Some 20 minute episodes were edited down to a mere 8 after removing all racial images/slurs.
Several episodes were removed completely from the series.
All of the major studios, produced both live-action films and cartoons portraying blacks in this manner. Stereotypes thrived on film as comic relief.
These films are a product of their times and while certainly not suitable for children, they are important historical documents.
They represent a period of American history where views were very different than they are now.
It is also important to remember that they were intended to be funny, not hurtful.
One does not have to look far to find many other examples of racial stereotyping in popular media in the first half of the 20th century.
Radio shows, movies, and comic strips were filled with caricatures of Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, and every other minority.
It is to our great credit that we have evolved as far as we have since then, but we should preserve our history and not try to rewrite it in some Orwellian attempt to excise those parts of it that we now find abhorrent.
As for the music, it is a modified version of Cab Calloway singing "Some of These Days" from the film soundtrack, "Forbidden Zone"
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Albeit one positive aspect of this "new" layout is that you are able see the frown I have on my face in your subscription section as I'm pointing to ItsBarryLife, because that is the face I actually make while pointing at ItsBarryLife in real life.
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"Bekkum An Hero." LOLOLOL
Aqua never went away... like all Euro acts, they get the shot at US fame via one CD and that's it---back to Euro-global fame they go.
Mike:
Some people do. I know I'm practically comatose here, but that's just me.
I have much more going on in Facebook. Meeting oodles of guys---REAL guys, not pompous freaks who barely pass the test.
Here? Meh, it's a wonder I haven't closed my own channel out of the boredom I experience when coming on here for whatever the fuck it is I come on here for.
But... summer's almost here and it's time for me to take my shirt down, put on my short-shorts, and strike a pose for a couple hundred thousand views in two days, easy.
No need to even OPEN my mouth or try to sound "ultra-deep" with a fitfh of maudlin for good measure.
I do want to see her just run him down, and then down, and then all. the. way. dowwwwn.
No man that simpering deserves anything better---he's married to the woman he has to be. Until he gets something called B.A.L.L.S.
And on that other account... yeah, big whoop, I'm so angry 'it' came to my channel, grr-grr---
---or then again, Y.A.W.N.
I was expecting Kate to destroy Jon, but that didn't happen.
I am so, so upset!