40's TV: Anti-Racism PSA from The DuMont Network (1949) (REAL)

40's TV: An Anti-racism PSA from the DuMont Television Network, broadcast during 1949.

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[thezenarcadian]

Man, so progressive for its time. I wish DuMont were around today. And their archives weren't on a sea-bed in New York.

[MattTheSaiyan]

@thezenarcadian They experimented with a "Black" religious music show, had a catholic bishop host a show at a time when there was still considerable anti-catholic sentiment, had the first show with a Chinese-American lead cast member, and was among several networks to have aired "The Goldbergs" for a while. Very ahead of their time, and the strange part is, their collapse had little to do with their programming (in some ways, they had more hits in the early 1950s than ABC).

[eddo1983]

Religion teaches prejudice and hate

[MattTheSaiyan]

@eddo1983 I'm not sure what the word "ironic" means, but I get the feeling your comment may very well be that.

[kablamo9999]

Amazing. Back then, prejudice was considered "un-American"? That's progressive. I suspect that today the teabaggers would scream about how media promotes the leftist agenda for being against racism. We haven't learned very much since then.

[MattTheSaiyan]

@kablamo9999 I don't know about the other networks, but DuMont, while avoiding politics for the most part, managed to get a few of these things in their shows from time to time, sometimes hiding it (I heard about a childrens show, "The Magic Cottage", that had a rhyme about how a brown cow gives just good milk at a white cow, or something like that).

[ShitFromShinolla]

Say fellows, Captain Video is right. Let's all fight discrimination!

[thezenarcadian]

@whammy850 LOLZORZ

[thezenarcadian]

@eddo1983 Correct. And child-abuse.

[PomonaPunkRock]

5 people are racist

[lakerzgurl]

Jesus christ. If there is a God he would look at thankful's and eddo's comments and be embarrassed at the fact that he created these fucktards who actually argue about this shit like they are distributing wisdom to YouTube. Its sad.

[xit1254]

The Democrats are were the Jim Crow party. There was no Republican party in the South during the Jim Crow era.

[demikede1]

@TroyOi The message inspired girls, not just boys, to be super-hero(in)es! Sexism is the same thing: gender discrimination is "unamerican" & preventing a girl to be what she wants to be: to save the world. The message inspired the poor, because discriminating against the poor or rich is not what a video ranger should do either. Although in the late 1940s ownership of TV was pricey, way before cable & satellite services came to being. +

[demikede1]

@dinohoax Native Americans & Pacific Islanders are the smallest racial group, does it mean the policy declares their eligibility or qualification is lower like above 2.1 GPA? Back at the time, we fought World War II & wanted to promote cultural assimilation or "integration" of all races & creeds. & our experience in fighting the Nazis' & the horrors they committed made us realize how important tolerance is, but WWII is when Japanese-Americans due to their race were interned in military camps. +

[whammy850]

Why is there so much religious discrimination in the comments about a video encouraging us to release our prejudices? The answer is simple- Atheists are just as religious about their beliefs as anyone who does worship a god. Atheism is just as much religion as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or what have you. It's a belief system which, while good intentions are present, does more harm than good and puts its own values above all others.