Minstrel Show Blackface Stump Speech

[scatdawg123]

Amen brutha!

[scatdawg123]

This is incredibly hilarious! God, how I love old blackface minstrel shows. This is pure comic genius!

[chinashopjada]

I agree...of course this is racist & actually really unfunny because of the one joke premise, but I am glad people are posting these things...for academic, social studies & personal reasons. What I LOVE to see are clips of original Minstrel shows w/ black people singing trad songs, early ragtime & proto blues tunes & the Hoochie Coochie girls....before they were co-opted by the whites & turned into this drivel. ...but very few films exist of that pre-1830's era & none w/ full sound or good sound

[ikachina]

@chinashopjada

Motion pictures weren't invented till the 1890s, so the only film being shot in the 1830s was still photography. The earliest motion picture of any sort of minstrel show performance that I'm aware of is a 1903 clip demonstrating the cakewalk that is easy to find on YouTube. The most accurate representations of minstrel show performances that I've seen are in a few movies from the 1930s-1950s and I've posted those clips in my channel.

[OniKensei]

Oooh! I get it! They're saying black people are stupid. Way to stretch out one unfunny joke for an eternity.

[Jaistar2k22]

Herman Cain sure came a long way

[TheAmericanDefender]

rofl this is funny as hell!

[BootyFister]

I JUST MASTURBATED TO THIS VIDEO.

[Greenhornet270]

lol I SAW a Minstrel show as a kid....it was wonderful!!!

[roseco01]

While a terrible spectacle, it is also important to keep in mind that the minstrel show was a multi-faceted institution that lampooned African Americans, but on another level constituted a tacit admission of the limits and backwardness of the rigid mores of white culture. This was a form of entertainment that presented material not only based on race, but also region, social standing, political affiliation etc. It tells us more about the 19th century than the fact that they were racist.

[Cruz7906]

Thank you for posting this, as you said I am looking to learn about these. I had never seen one, but part of a paper I am writing concerns it. I think it is important to post videos like this, not to proliferate racism, but to expose what it was then. I am embarrassed as an American to see this, but I am glad someone has posted it so that we can all learn from it.

[dreadedlurgy]

this is about as funny and entertaining as being told you have a terminal case of cancer! i would sooner watch paint dry than go thru that again! so lets hear a big round of silence for the writer and producer of this crap and may they rot in hell!

[49jubilee]

Seeing mess like this could be the one of the problems why black kids want white dolls, sometimes, (have u seen the youtube vids on this?), and RAP, may be doing the SAME THING---when they show lightskin women in the videos, showing their gold grillz, and calling women 'hos.----

[celticlord88]

i'm black and i like blackface and i think its funny but i am in no way racist. people thought a certain way back then but it doesn't mean i'm wrong for enjoying this.

[EBanonymous]

01:39 "all black cats must stay out of the alley" and he's a white guy w/ blackface AND then they mention "Zip Coon".

That's so racist it isn't even funny. This crap was the most popular form of American entertainment at one time; that's how racist the country was.

And let's be clear: They hated blacks & weren't afraid to say it. You racists today pretend not to be racist is swear this isn't racist. It's like watching old Nazi shows. The Americans hanged thousands of blacks. It's sick

[ikachina]

@EBanonymous

Of course this is racist. And yes, it is a bit like watching old NAZI movies. But I think youre wrong about why people want to see these things. The majority of people who watch clips like this are doing it because they are interested in learning more about minstrel shows. Its one thing to read about these things, but its far more enlightening to actually see a performance.

[EBanonymous]

@ikachina

I don't think all perople who watch this are racist; some really don't know th history & others look at it to learn about history. Actually, this should be shown in every classroom so that students know & be taught what racism & the effect entertainment had on 1) slavery 2) apartheid & 3) lynching & 4) segregation & Jim Crow laws, some of which are still used - like barring prisoners from voting.

The racists & cynics are the ones who say this is "Progressive" & "multi-cultural"

[EBanonymous]

@ikachina

So let me just be clear:

I'm not advocating censorship. It's better to be open about it & discuss it in an educational setting so that people see just what effect & role Hollywood had on the terrible race wars in the US.

The fact they had restaurants called "Coon Fried Chicken" in LA & blacks were hanged by the thousands & that there were no positive examples of blacks in the media is current & relevant. Let's teach why this is wrong & create understanding, not prepetuate hate.