Anybody old enough to remember the Ed Sullivan Show? Here is how he introduced James Brown on The Godfather of Soul's first national television appearance..
Its in the video. When Sullivan introduced James Brown he said "Our next guest is a young man. He's from the South. He picked cotton and he always sang a song." Makes him sound like Uncle Remus.
Prime example of this (and i think you are 100 percent right btw) watch the old Looney Toons. Yosemite Sam would be considered a racist bastard today, even though Bugs Bunny was the first drag queen in cartoons. Think of all the stereotypes in those cartoons. I still love them though.
Meh I don't know. He didn't call him a poor black boy. He said where he was from and what he did for a living. Wtf, it is what it is right?
You really shouldn't call Red a racist bastard. Did you ever watch Amos and Andy? It was pulled from the airwaves a long time before Sanford and Son but Fred Sanford was a lot like Kingfish except for the stereotyped dialogue.
George Jefferson." The Jeffersons". He was one outspoken boot licking sob that I liked. Weeziiii! The zebras here again!
No one under 55 has ever watched Amos and Andy. The old 1940's Amos and Andy radio show was done by white men who used phony black dialect to make fun of black folks. But the Amos and Andy TV show in the late 50's was played by the best black comedians of the time and it was fucking hilarious. Yes they used dialect, just like the Beverly Hillbillies, Sanford and Son, and a lot of other shows did. It became politically incorrect during the civil rights era. But if you get a chance to watch the old shows, you will find them hysterically funny. Even modern black comedians acknowledge their contribution. Amos and Andy themselves were funny characters, but Kingfish and Algonquin J. Calhoun had us rolling on the floor. This was at the height of Jim Crow but black people were on TV and white people were watching. It was breakthrough comedy and will be treated well by history.
