Cotton Watts and Slim Williams Blackface Comedy Routine

Cotton Watts was still performing his blackface routines in the South in supper and strip clubs well into the 1960s.
Read about the history of blackface and minstrel shows at: http://www.black-face.com

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Film & Animation

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• Cotton Watts
• Slim Williams
• blackface
• minstrel show
• Yes Sir
• Mr. Bones

[GregStudio62]

what film is this from?

[ikachina]

@GregStudio62

This is a clip from "Yes Sir, Mr. Bones" (1951). It is the only film that ever tried to document a complete minstrel show and most of the performers were stars on the minstrel show circuit of the 20s, 30s and 40s.

[ikachina]

@GregStudio62

All of the performances from the film are available on my YouTube channel.

[GeorgeJansen]

hoooollly shit racist but fucking funny...........damn...i should not be laughing....damn u white man...damn you

[gck1953]

Wow, watching this for Black History month, this is cool.

[HHTmagish]

@TheG55coffia for the same reason a girl can call herself fat and be ok but someone she isn't comfortable with saying it will offend. People that are similar don't (usually) feel bad when they refer to themselves with what will otherwise be viewed as a derogatory. 2 Exam failures can call each other Failures all day long, but let the guy with the A be like "yo failure what's up" Its going to offend! Also, Historically the word Nigger has been used by non Black people to hurt and damage blacks.

[BorderCityBandit]

another few decades this stuff will be totally buried,which is never good, to revise any kinda history,either we can finally settle our differences peacefully or the other way,but they need to be settled ,hiding this stuff away does alot more harm than good,if ppl offended,I say fucking great,serves them right for so damn sensitive

[thewiz098]

black man says nigger: yo wat up cuz

white man says nigger: ..................no more white man

its double standards, rather than racism, that keep this country in the shitter

[TheG55coffia]

Why do the blacks & white "bleeding hearts" hate this & yet the Ganster Rap videos that have blacks calling each other nigger seems to be alright with them?

[Aztecabrn]

this is so fucked up in so many levels lol

[AhmadTheChamp]

This Makes me hate the white man so muuuuch!!!

[decevioj]

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