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Yes, of course it reflects racisit attitudes-- but those attitudes were mainstream and this type of show was common popular entertainment. See the Wikipedia article "Minstrel show". It's the bizare product of white Americans who were racist but loved black music.
The joke in this 1930 movie is that it that the story is set in the mid 1800s and they present the minstrel show as "brand new", whereas for 1930 audiences it would have been familiar since their grandparents time.
OH MY GOD. I saw this movie when I ws a kid and always remembered this "Dixiana" song, so this morning I randomly looked it up on here and... WHAT THE HELL?! Those men are in blackface!
2:45 - 3:00 is the most fucking offsensive exchange I have ever seen on film. This is mindblowing. I can't believe how outright racist this is.
you have to remember the time this was written and performed in. the very beginnings of the civil rights movement were still 20 years away. I'm not saying it's right, but i am saying it was a different world and a different time. in 80 years are we going to look back on the fact that prop 8 was passed in CA and be as offended by that as we are by this - i hope so, but look at it from the same perspective.
It was NOT the 30's. When Shirley had been arrested several times between 1950-1957, the studios decided to say that it was "the thirties" to improve relationships with her Royal cousins in England. If this black thing had not happened, Shirley would never have known what a deep cut racism could be. Bo Jangles hid with her under verandas, in the rain, just to help her save up money for an airline ticket. Blacks kept Shirley out of jail after child star arrests in LA under "prostitution" charges
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The joke in this 1930 movie is that it that the story is set in the mid 1800s and they present the minstrel show as "brand new", whereas for 1930 audiences it would have been familiar since their grandparents time.
2:45 - 3:00 is the most fucking offsensive exchange I have ever seen on film. This is mindblowing. I can't believe how outright racist this is.