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Post by dirtypillows on Jul 9, 2020 23:01:34 GMT
Everybody burn your twenty dollar bills or else you are racist!
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 9, 2020 23:07:04 GMT
Everybody burn your twenty dollar bills or else you are racist! Just today I was watching a movie in which Buster Keaton had a blackface. As a brown man it won't make even the slightest difference to me if one did brown face. I understand it is seen as something bad in today's time but we should not judge people of past based on today's standards. May be 100 years from now culture will change and people will find faults with us. Would we like to be declared bigot or racist or sexist or whatever. |
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Post by ck100 on Jul 10, 2020 4:47:56 GMT
Didn't Thomas Jefferson have an affair with a slave?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 10, 2020 4:56:26 GMT
Just today I was watching a movie in which Buster Keaton had a blackface. If you are referring to the face Buster has in the freeze frame of the Video .. he is a made up as a MONKEY in that scene .... that is not "blackface" |
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jul 10, 2020 6:37:39 GMT
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Post by dirtypillows on Jul 10, 2020 13:17:42 GMT
Just today I was watching a movie in which Buster Keaton had a blackface. As a brown man it won't make even the slightest difference to me if one did brown face. I understand it is seen as something bad in today's time but we should not judge people of past based on today's standards. May be 100 years from now culture will change and people will find faults with us. Would we like to be declared bigot or racist or sexist or whatever. I can understand why black people are offended by blackface though. In America gay males are commonly stereotyped as effeminate queens. These stereotypes are passed off as endearing and lovable in media. The tv show Will & Grace is a great example. I detested those vomit-inducing freaks.
But even without blackface, American media still stereotypes the black man as a pimp and a criminal.
I did not like "Will and Grace", either. I wouldn't so much mind the stereotyping, but the show was just so eager to stereotype it's two gay male characters. Practically everything Will and Jack did was like this grotesque check off list to cue the viewer. It was so pandering and when my friends or coworkers brought up the show and hilarious, I'd try to change the subject or duck out. Not to mention the show was not funny. It was part of that awful trend (early at the time) where all the characters are rude and insulting and loud and completely self-absorbed. I will concede and say that the exception here was Karen, who was characterized wonderfully by Megan Mulally. Karen could be hysterical. But the other three did nothing for me. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Jul 10, 2020 14:35:20 GMT
Didn't Thomas Jefferson have an affair with a slave? I don't know, but probably. I imagine most of the presidents from that era did. |
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jul 10, 2020 14:43:07 GMT
 "I didn't want to discriminate against any denomination, so I burned it all." |
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Post by Stammerhead on Jul 10, 2020 18:33:29 GMT
Didn't Thomas Jefferson have an affair with a slave?  |
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 10, 2020 19:22:46 GMT
Just today I was watching a movie in which Buster Keaton had a blackface. As a brown man it won't make even the slightest difference to me if one did brown face. I understand it is seen as something bad in today's time but we should not judge people of past based on today's standards. May be 100 years from now culture will change and people will find faults with us. Would we like to be declared bigot or racist or sexist or whatever. I can understand why black people are offended by blackface though. In America gay males are commonly stereotyped as effeminate queens. These stereotypes are passed off as endearing and lovable in media. The tv show Will & Grace is a great example. I detested those vomit-inducing freaks.
But even without blackface, American media still stereotypes the black man as a pimp and a criminal.
haha...your post makes me remember that back on the old IMDB there was a dude called "Hadmatter" who was a very manly looking tough guy...some woman commented on his good lucks but then she was pissed off when he said he is a gay.....that was hilarious. |
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Post by politicidal on Jul 10, 2020 19:48:13 GMT
Didn't Thomas Jefferson have an affair with a slave? Sally Hemmings. Affair, assault. Men couldn't tell the difference back then. |
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