The Black & White Minstrel Show 1978 - Part 3

[pongomery4033]

Just like Soul Train,the gals are gorgeous but we could do without those brothers.

[iammaxed]

Baby boomers are fucked.

[sonicbut]

Great while it lasted..

[iammaxed]

@sonicbut What?? Bro, how the fuck can you say this shit is/was great? Just look at it...its fucked-ness is absolutely breath-taking.

[electric0adam]

@iammaxed You sound a little upset at this. Just ignore it; it's not happening now.

[iammaxed]

@electric0adam Yeah, I know...but fucking hell...how could they call this shit entertainment.

[electric0adam]

@iammaxed Because it entertained at the time…? By reacting the way you are, you are making a big deal out of it. It's not a big deal, it's nothing. It's less than nothing, it's not worth the upset.

Save your rage to combat racism today, where it actually matters.

[vanessamcqueen11]

This show creeped me out as a very young child and it continues to creep me out seeing it as an adult. I like old/traditional music but this is corny & awful. It was an interesting flashback to watch though. Any wonder my parents never watched it.

[chrishanson70]

About a thousand of those 13000 views must be mine!

[coquitoabkk]

what i find more amazing ... is how people can express thier racist or anti-racist views so easy online...but in "real life" its so taboo to even have a discussion about it ... makes you think right??

[murringo9]

Times have certainly changed. Was this really that popular?

[euphena]

So I take it this where all members of the BNP congregate!!

[madsocktm]

@euphena that wasn't funny the first time you said that

[euphena]

@madsocktm I will continue to expose racist individuals as long as i breath, 

[CelebrateDiversity1]

@euphena

You think that all white British racists should be hung,drawn and quartered?And the UK Govt is (of course) 100% right in saying that black people can never be racist as they are still such a minority?If you think that,I agree with you and I'm glad that many white women are very attracted to black men,steadily helping to turn the UK into a mixed-race nation! Good-as it will end the utter evils of racism!

[wallpaper72]

@euphena There are plenty of things worse than being 'racist' .Traitors are at the top of my list.

[thaines]

It's like the racist and sexist elements of this unbelieveably sketch are fighting it out to be more diabolical. Those who mock the X-factor may want to consider what was once considered acceptable entertainment.

[smarterthanyou25]

What the fuck is going on here? Seriously struggling to understand why this is good. The music is twat, the whole idea of the scene is hard to comprehend and I'm really quite confused as to why they have blacked up for this.

[326Ka]

white people are wierd man white guys hate the thought of black guys with white girls yet they make a show wear theyre painted like black guys singing to white women damn thaats wierd

[rubysson57]

What's weird is how blacks always prattle on about being 'Black and Proud,' then keep coming over to be with white people and wanting to knock all their women up. As for the so called 'enlightened' milltiants, white and black alike, they're the ones who have the vested interest in keeping you down. So you'll think you'll always need them to think for you.

[Cool2BCeltic]

It was fortuitous that there was a plastic bag for me to be sick into after I saw this.

[shaftsbury94]

where da white woman at?

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 You're right, it's a bit less, some of my students are in more than one class of mine, so I wound up counting them twice. But I am definitely a teacher, Media and Photography, actually, in a country town in Victoria

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 I thought you'd died...what a shame!

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 Don't hold your breath.

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 Why would I want you banned from Youtube? You've provided me with the biggest laugh I've had all week.

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 Frankly I'm enjoying exposing your inability to argue the point of the B&W Minstrel Show with even the remote quantity of intelligence. If you're unable to back up your claim you shouldn't comment on a public forum. Simple as that. Now I could go on about the social values shows like this represent, using codes and conventions, but I fear your steroid-filled brain would explode from the pressure

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 If you have such a disdain for the media, why did you comment on a piece of media then in media terms? I'm not the one being contradictory. You made a comment, I pulled you up on it, and then you went through a volley of insults and swear words in a pathetic attempt to hide you obvious lack of ability to back up your claim. YOU made the comment, YOU refuse to back up your comment, and YOU resorted to the language you used because YOU have the inability to back up your claim. Idiot

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 It's nice you have better things to do, I'll leave you to your Charles Manson, your serial killers and your body building. I'll go back to educating my 123 students. Have a nice life.

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 I'm emotional? Who's the one slinging around the swear words and insults? Have the men in the little white coats come to collect you for the asylum yet? You clearly need help for you delusions of your own sanity. You're the one making up the wild and unfounded assumptions of me, and all I've asked you to do is back up your ludicrous comment, which I might again remind you, you made on a public forum.

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 And as for your comment "anyone can do your mickey mouse degree", without knowing about the courses I've done or where, how would you know? For the Bachelor course, 400 people applied, 40 people got in, based on a folio of films produced and on a panel interview. That was just for the undergraduate. For the postgraduate, you needed to have done the undergraduate. Yep, with a 90% rejection rate, anyone can get it.

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 OMG, now I've heard everything!!! You're upset because I commented an idiotic comment you made 6 months ago, and yet you want me to do as pointless and exercise as write to the BBC for a show they made 33 years ago? That's just too funny!!! And I'm not ranting and raving, I'm merely getting you to be accountable for your idiotic comment.

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 I'm not the one who is ranting, raving, using obscene and offensive swear words, or insulting others, making ridiculous assumptions about my qualifications, carrying on like a pork chop, so I don't know how you can call me a "deranged loon". Given the unfounded insults you've thrown in my direction I think I've remained quite sane and calm under your verbal abuse.

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 Oh, and further, Lenny Henry was born in August 1958, and first appeared on Black and White Minstrel Show in April 1975 - making him 16. Looks like you're the one who needs to research

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 Incorrect, I didn't contact you, I merely replied to your ludicrous comment that because Lenny Henry appeared on the show (as a 16 year old) it makes the Black and White Minstrel Show okay. That is not making contact with you personally, that is replying on a public forum. Post a ludicrous comment like that on a PUBLIC forum, expect people to want you to back up your claim WHICH YOU REFUSE TO DO. You're an idiot, who resorts to offensive swear-like insults to hide your own cowardice

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 You are continuously missing the point. You made a value judgement, and you are the one refusing to back it up. You're a coward. If you want to make a point, have the balls to back yourself up. Otherwise, keep your trap shut.

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 Oh, I'm an idiot, am I? Should now be the time I point out I have a Masters in Arts Education, specialising in Media and Drama? If we're resorting to personal insults now, you're the idiot because you made the comment that black and white minstrel is okay because Lenny Henry was on it (basically placing a judgement on someone from a decision they made at 16) and won't back it up. Writing to the BBC will be like writing to a gov from 30 years ago - completely and utterly pointless.

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 Perhaps the most confused and nonsensical comment I have ever seen on Youtube. You really have no idea what you're crapping on about, do you?

[298625]

How can this possibly be 1978? Hard to believe. Blackface and bell bottoms. I just don't get it.

[xandar2711]

This show used to sell to African countries and everywhere! I watched it in Nigeria. It was very popular there. Only the Americans started going on about how racist Minstrel shows were, because of their own history of theatre discrimination - and that was used as an excuse to cancel it.

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 ah, but you DID answer to it, you said it was okay because Lenny Henry was on it. I never said you had anything to do with it - I was also a kid, and for some reason this was on TV in Australia. As for your comment about being a "prole in the big scheme of importance", you are a member of the viewing community, with viewpoints and opinions. Don't underestimate your role in the scheme of things. As a media teacher, my role is to educate what the role of the media plays in forming them

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 then I will have to deduce you have no reasoning and that like a lot of ignorant people, you fail to see what the point is to the objections to these shows are.

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 Explain your reasoning

[nupthatisit]

@drdawn86 Does it? Lenny Henry was 16 when he first appeared. And he was told by the television producers that as a black entertainer, it was the only job he was likely to get. He is terribly ashamed of his involvement in this show. So does it make it okay, just because he appeared on this piece of shit?

[chupacabrajackson]

This show is not racist because it disgraces humanity as a species.

[iammaxed]

@chupacabrajackson Can't argue with that...

[josephgioielli]

Love it or hate it, can you honestly say you have ever seen anything like it?

[gazzah54]

let me at them white women

[GoodByeKyle]

not only do they all look  a like... but they all look like commander Data

[agaichapter25]

how stupid people must have been to call this entertainment.

[jase3001]

The worst TV clip I have ever seen bar none. Absolutely tasteless and offensive and I am not easily offended. This is the reason why PC came about in the first place. Good riddance.

[jovialduke]

what is this shit

[2010dispencer]

why can't people see beyond the color of people's skins? So the guys have black faces? They are good singers and dancers. Why discriminate against minstrels? Bring back the Black and White Minstrels and stop this political correctness,

[jeffmusselman]

i'm sure you had to be there to appreciate this the first time around. yikes, this is horrid.

[GoodByeKyle]

that one looks like commander data

[UzumakiMatrix]

i wonder if their cocks were as big as black people's cocks! when they put the make up on!!

and if it went back to normal little white size after lol !!!

[hhistory]

i must be on drugs. what just happened?

[Lockbar]

This is really crazy.

[Toussi21]

Wowseriously? You Brits aren't embarrassed by this crap? And to think you have the nerve to talk about Americans...Utterly pathetic, this is.

Never has an American negro uttered the words relaxe-vous.

[incongra]

@Toussi21 we're not embarrassed in the slightest. And who said we talk about americans? Don't you think we have better things to do? We all know how well you all get along in the USA ... that great cultural melting pot.... just ask Epic Beard Guy!

[boz1867]

Anyone who thinks that this is a look back at the 'good old days' wants their bumps felt. Sad, sad, sad.

[JOCKATEO]

looks like some off the people coming out of a sunbed place by me or this black man was angry with me so i told him don,t give me those dark looks

[kev123n]

Just shows you,coloured people always had it,soul and rhythm.

[threecoloursblue1]

Are they blacked-up for a free council house?

[cosmicjazzer]

this is very, very strange....

[Jagdtoq]

Multicultural Britain innit?

LOL

[Majik47]

I remember even in the 70s I would cringe over a show like this. Nowadays, it's even worse.

[PympHarD]

white people need to be ashame of themselves

[mytonprop]

whats the problem??

still today you get white people trying to be black,,,,have you seen the white hip hop culture in britain?? same thing but no ione jumps up and down about that

[TheReviewKid]

Yeah, but they're not "blacking" themselves up, they are embracing a type of music.

[groveavenue]

If a programme like this was shown on TV today there would be such a rumpus from the black community's spokespeople.

It's OK for nostalgia, I suppose.

[SadAnorak]

Top quality entertainment, no wonder it was so popular. I used to love this BBC show shame it is not repeated.

[kinatube]

ooo! the good old days,... i mean the nostagic evergreen songs.

[SadAnorak]

LOve thishappy sing along video

[threecoloursblue1]

You mean they're not actually black men? there must have been a shortage

[Skeelzy123]

There wasn't a shortage of black men, Its just they didn't want to employ them. Its called institutional Racism

[ajgolfer1]

this is like lawrence welk but duller and more boing and in 1978! wow.

[j0andc0]

One could think this would of brought a bit more harmony between us all, obviously not, still not satisfied.

[darkangelofhorror]

Aaaaah, good clean family entertainment!

A wonderful show, from an era when people didn't take things too seriously and had a sense of humour about each other.

Not like today, when people scream blue murder at the mearest hint of offense!

They should bring this show back!

[kingbrude]

Ive never really had an opinion on B/W Minstrels but after watching this I am horrified by the promotion of Race Mixing that this vid seems to be encouraging.

[KnwName]

If this is consider funny, then I think some people need to recalibrate their comedy meter....this is terrible

[dimmer505]

Babes - Yes - nothing racy (R A C Y) just good fun.

This surely goes back to the late great Al Jonson a Jewish man that blacked up.

Please everyone lighten up and enjoy the great entertainment.

[vonsmitty1313]

The women on this show were some smokin' hot British babes,probably the only reason a lot of dirty old "Andy Capp" type Englishmen tuned in. The Benny Hill show sure would've been a lot less watchable without "Hill's Angels"...

[marktomarketguy]

This was from a great time.

Britain has since gone downhill with its sad PC ways.

What harm is represented on this clip.

LOOSEN UP BRITAIN!

[ThaduisMallowmare]

White people in black face wearing preppy clothes doing "country club" like activities and singing fairly wholesome songs? This is racism?? I think they are doing it wrong :P

[Mushmit]

to think the Two-Tone movement was just a year away..............

[Wolfenfang]

WTF ??!!?!?! Sooo creepy, racist and repulsive.

Somehow very funny.

NO ONE fucking looks like that !!!!!

[joeizhere]

It demonstrated how black and white could join together. Why don't white people (Esp British White) have free speech anymore?

[ANZUS777]

No, it demonstrates that blacks are a bunch of uncle toms for the entertaining of whites. Minstrel shows always had the same themes. This thing is no different. Many of the songs they sing go back to virulent shows of the 1800s. You think just because on TV it is no less racist?

[Flipflopab]

Well said

[j0andc0]

It encourages interracials which i thought you very much approved of, you were saying about narrow mindedness!

[j0andc0]

I mean close mindness.

[Exeunt26]

You're joking right? It's an insulting caricature of a black face. White people do have free speech: I'm white and I'm calling it racist. Try looking at this from the other end of the telescope: if you were black, especially back then, how would you feel about it?

[rupertducker]

superb ; you realise black people more often than never really like this stuff. Really ! ! I mean that from the bottom of my heart ! !

[Xian1642]

It is from a different world.

[goatpunch]

This is so terrible- thanks so much for sharing it's important that we remember how naive and simple we were as a country back then