1950 Blackface Performance: Vernon & Ryan

Actors Glenn Vernon and Edward Ryan apply blackface make-up while on stage, and show us how blacks have been portrayed in minstrel shows for ages...

The producers do not tolerate or support racism in any form. In fact, they find racism to be abhorrent. This is merely a look at how black have been portrayed in the past using a historical clip from the 1949 feature film, Hollywood Varieties.

One does not have to look far to find many other examples of racial stereotyping in popular media in the first half of the 20th century. Radio shows, movies, and comic strips were filled with caricatures of Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, and every other minority. It is to our great credit that we have evolved as far as we have since then, but we should preserve our history and not try to rewrite it in some Orwellian attempt to excise those parts of it that we now find abhorrent.

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[ubermensch826]

I found this hard to masturbate to.

[viridibirdy]

white chicks is not really racist, it stereotypes rich caucasians plus they if any one sees the whole movie you can see that they want to protect the girls lives thats why they dress up like that , and throughout the movie the viewer knows they are black detective guys its part of the story

[Xaplelul]

Niggers

[BorderCityBandit]

I like the shit outta this kinda stuff., nothing of this sort should ever be banned or hidden away,censorship in anyway is not tolerable and not compatible with a free society.I hate revisionist Bullshit,makes me sick enough to vomit Blood,I sometimes think with all the tension we live with ,everyone so tense and uptight,I sometimes think if we need major race wars,just to relieve some tension,something has to give,Or more desirable would a solar flare knocking out all power to the planet

[Aeoliandorian]

It appears people had a sense of humour once. How strange.

[wxxvi]

Well, the past and the (then) present, perhaps, but the future? Not so much.

[stripedman201]

I'm black.... I didn't find that so offensive :P

[ZAFARCAKE]

@fhab525 the 5 minuted we had to wait for 1 shit pun was funny to you?

[NeonBlade39]

Thats horrible. I'm white by the way.

[Xtro2005]

@ubermensch826 Needs more booty clapping with a pinch of gree'lls.

[Xtro2005]

God I fucking hate BET...

[LordSolaris]

"Old Time Show Business"!! I just can't even believe this was once considered not racist!!