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[purpoguh87]

Is funny how they tried really hard to sound "black" or "slave-like" but they spoke very well (i.e. dat, ain't), what happened my people? We used to have so much pride in the way we carried and articulated ourselves.

[Geezyone]

Ms Dandridge and Harry Belefonte certainlt made a striking couple.

[loveangel1240]

My gosh she is beautiful

[TopazScorpio909]

Gosh I wish that beautiful. Lucky Ms. Dandridge

[ButtafliKyss]

Watched this movie as a wee child and love it to this day. Little tidbit: Marilyn "Lena" Horne sung all of Dorothy Dandridge's songs in this movie.

[tonybklyn]

@GorGeousyetsmart In those days "puss" referred to a persons face.

[chubycheeks302]

@eddiewillers1 did ya think about the things they did back then

exact same as the performers

this movie is super raunchy for that time period

fats waller sang about drugs and sex

louis armstrong made whoopie

i'm pretty sure they said the same thing about Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge - then the later age of Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, the Berry Gordy Motown style

[rchan09]

@eddiewillers1 Not all black people are like that. You are just as bad thinking that we are a huge homogeneous blob. I feel like in any race their are fools and normal people.

[eddiewillers1]

@purpoguh87

Indeed, what happened? Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge - then the later age of Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, the Berry Gordy Motown style...smart, articulate, well-presented.

How low the black folk have fallen from those great heights.

Now we have the primal grunting of 'rap singers', and their paeans to 'bitches', 'niggaz', 'dawgs' and 'hoes'.

[vernicegirl8987]

I wouldn't want a man that is easy to get. Its also the same for men. Most sucessful men wouldn't want some trampy hoe off the street. So this song has alot of more meaning than some people reconize it for.

[CarmenAliciaMusic]

@purpoguh87 it isnt so much that they "tried hard" to sound their race or "slave like" it is just that is how we spoke back then. Blacks weren't segregated back then remember. That's were the pride came from as well.

[LUIGAUZUKI]

beautiful