@kimmois1 that's the trouble with today. Everybody is waaay too sensitive for their own good. Nobody's allowed to laugh or make jokes. That's all this was: a parody. Has nothing to do with "Nazis". Just good songs and entertainment.
Now, think of a scene just like this one but without the black-face - Now add in Nazi-garb and swastika flags in the background - don't change any other content. Does it look racist now? IS it still racist?
Back in the 1960s The Black & White Minstrels was the best thing on tv. I loved it. I fail to see how it could be remotely considered racist! After all, look at the title, black AND white, you can't get less racist than that. They even put the word black before the word white.
personally having never seen this show i dont see how this particular video is racist ... ye theyre blacked up but the didnt do anything except sing.. and it was the whitest singing and the whitest church harmonies ive heard in ages lol
@wanderer1955 But there's a difference between mimicking and mocking, and in the REAL minstrel shows the black-faced white guys were portraying Afric-Amer's as real clowns and three-stooges-style idiots. This extremely LATE example of a Minstrel show has lost just about every trace of actual minstrelsy, save for the black faces (notice how they didn't hire any black cast members though).
Actually the Black and White Minstrel tradition dates back well into the 19 century and it was common for blacks to 'white up'. It was apparently also not uncommon for blacks to white up and then black up as whites playing blacks (go figure!). B&W minstrel music was one of the pre-cursors of jazz along with ragtime and the blues amongst others.
@Exeunt26 I was speaking of Michael Jackson. Our appetite for Little Richard, Michael Jackson, and rappers too numerous to name show us what we really are.
It looks racist now, but I guess back then it was just old fashioned Music Hall or Vaudeville
HorrorHarry100 2 weeks ago
MY BRAIN HURTS!
Krawuzikabuzi666 3 months ago
Terrific entertainment.
eric5906 8 months ago
@eric5906 Yes, if you're a Nazi
kimmois1 2 months ago
@kimmois1 that's the trouble with today. Everybody is waaay too sensitive for their own good. Nobody's allowed to laugh or make jokes. That's all this was: a parody. Has nothing to do with "Nazis". Just good songs and entertainment.
eric5906 2 months ago
jesus am i watching blazing sadles lol.
joebstarsurfer 9 months ago
Now, think of a scene just like this one but without the black-face - Now add in Nazi-garb and swastika flags in the background - don't change any other content. Does it look racist now? IS it still racist?
sirdenys 10 months ago
Back in the 1960s The Black & White Minstrels was the best thing on tv. I loved it. I fail to see how it could be remotely considered racist! After all, look at the title, black AND white, you can't get less racist than that. They even put the word black before the word white.
glenpovey 11 months ago
@glenpovey LOL
sirdenys 10 months ago
personally having never seen this show i dont see how this particular video is racist ... ye theyre blacked up but the didnt do anything except sing.. and it was the whitest singing and the whitest church harmonies ive heard in ages lol
djdan151 1 year ago
The show was entertainment of the highest order!! Mimicking is THE highest form of flattery. Anybody who cant see this, is a freaking idiot!!!
wanderer1955 1 year ago
@wanderer1955 But there's a difference between mimicking and mocking, and in the REAL minstrel shows the black-faced white guys were portraying Afric-Amer's as real clowns and three-stooges-style idiots. This extremely LATE example of a Minstrel show has lost just about every trace of actual minstrelsy, save for the black faces (notice how they didn't hire any black cast members though).
sirdenys 10 months ago
Its not racist you idiots. It was naive.
madgeson 1 year ago
@madgeson: it was both naive AND racist.
HeathenLoveGod 1 year ago
Rascist and vile.
interacciallove 1 year ago
Actually the Black and White Minstrel tradition dates back well into the 19 century and it was common for blacks to 'white up'. It was apparently also not uncommon for blacks to white up and then black up as whites playing blacks (go figure!). B&W minstrel music was one of the pre-cursors of jazz along with ragtime and the blues amongst others.
darrenmcdarren 1 year ago
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viviegor 2 years ago
it was still racism back then. why do you think only whites were masked in black and readily acceptable to the sexy white girls?
kinatube 2 years ago
i was 6 and thought it was sh*t back then...truly awful...
kickpix1965 2 years ago
Bizarre what people thought of as good family entertainment back then. Thank God we saw sense...
Exeunt26 2 years ago
@Exeunt26
Yeah, we graduated to a black child who grew up to be a white woman. Very enlightened we are.
AmosPressley 1 year ago
@AmosPressley ???
Exeunt26 1 year ago
@Exeunt26 I was speaking of Michael Jackson. Our appetite for Little Richard, Michael Jackson, and rappers too numerous to name show us what we really are.
AmosPressley 1 year ago