Black & White Minstrels

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Uploaded by on Sep 29, 2009

Might seem like a dinosaur today but the Black & White Minstrel Show was an entertainment juggernaut from 1958 until 1978

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  • It looks racist now, but I guess back then it was just old fashioned Music Hall or Vaudeville

  • @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 Yes, if you're a Nazi

  • MY BRAIN HURTS!

  • Terrific entertainment. 

  • jesus am i watching blazing sadles lol.

  • 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?

  • @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).

  • @glenpovey LOL

  • 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.

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