Everybody Sing

Judy Garland sings FDR Jones

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[tsaunders71]

@empeethree03

You must be caucasian! You guys usual never notice racism when it is ever so blatant....

[gothamgirl31]

@empeethree03 It was racist then, and it's racist now. Just because racism was accepted back then doesn't make it any less racist.

[jeprice08]

4:19 - 4:25, 4:28 - 4:35, 4:47 - 4:53, and 5:08 - 5:12 AHA! You see? There's the difference between real black people and fake black people right there! When you're real, the skin (the color) doesn't come off!

[jeprice08]

OMG! This is laughable! I liked Judy the other way!

[Mr123Gibson]

.....this bitch..

[me323]

This was by no means a white mans way of racially abusing black people! It was more of a parody of the mannerisms of the old southern black man. I mean, Bert Williams, a black man, used to black up and do the same routine in which he was immensely popular. So it's not that they saw it as ok back then but now we see it as wrong which is the way is meant to be and always has been but they just didnt know it back then. Societies changed as guess. Most things are seen as racist now.

[ficksuck1]

@TheJesseHarmon

nobody did that.

[DreamsCumTrue469]

@empeethree03 you sound like an idiot, lol. yes, we always must learn from the past, that's nothing new. What we learn from this clip is that in 1938 Hollywood was clearly RACIST. period, end of discussion. we all love Judy - this has nothing to do with her. she was a kid under contract to MGM. But you are an idiot if you don't think this nonsense was MEANT by MGM to be racist. quit making excuses. the blessing is that we forever have the evidence on record of what the racist did.

[TheJesseHarmon]

It's interesting that in a lot of old minstrel shows, a lot of the actors were actually black. They painted their faces white, then painted their faces black again to give the illusion that they're white playing a black character, when in fact they are black people playing a white person playing a black character. Make sense?

[SomberIngenue]

@KatarraParson Oh I can only imagine that it is for you. It really is WRONG of them to do that. The same with Shakespeare's Othello. There are TONS of brilliant men who are black who could do the role but they just paint up a white guy. For shame!

[KatarraParson]

@SomberIngenue I know, I love old time movies and musicals. But every time things like this come up, I just cringe. I, as a black person, cringe because its so demeaning and hurtful.

[KatarraParson]

I love how people are trying to defend casual racism, just because it was back then.