Oh dear.

No two words say progressively taking about issues of race quite like "Rainbow Coalition."

I hear The Dukes of Hazzard were moonshine running rednecks too-weird.

@acridsheep: typo, should be TALKING

My first typo. May the execution be swift.

institutional commercial corporate underwritten sponsored racism

yep

indians, too, did not fare well in cartoons of that vintage; see the original peter pan movie and many more

"this cartoon is ugly why did they made snow white cartoon beautiful, and cole black ugly cartoon. did white people think black people are ugly"

Exactly youtube commentor. Exactly.

Is it wrong to think that this cartoon is less offensive and more entertaining than anything Flavor Flav has done in the last 5 years?

oh man, I used to love those crazy old-timey racist cartoons. It was literally watching an artifact unearthed from a previous mode of being human. When I used to see those blackface characters, I didn't even understand that they were supposed to be racist. They were just goofy looking cartoon characters to my young, innocent eyes. Then I grew up and someone told me about racism and then everyone took my childhood away and now Wesley Snipes is in jail because he's not caucasian and I blame Hitler.

I was trying to find out which black musicians were responsible for the excellent music and stumbled upon this:

[www.toontracker.com]

That's the context the Times should have given instead of scolding the interwebs (the same interwebs that are rendering the mediocre paper of record for wannabe socialites obsolete by the second).

@Pope John Peeps II: Well put. Blackface characters didn't look enough like African-American people for me to make the connection. Plenty of post-war Japanese, Chinese, and German stereotypes in the the cartoons of my youth as well (late 70s).

Now that we were all opening up about how we were rascist little children, can I chime in with how much I thoroughly enjoyed Little Black Sambo as a 7 year old? Taking home all that butter and eating a metric buttload of pancakes sure was just desserts. Sure he enjoyed that kila-liter worth of Aunt Jemima syrup.

I remember reading a little Disney book about Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby and just not getting it.

"Murder Inc.
We rub out anybody
$1.00

Midgets - Half Price
JAPS - FREE"

This brings to mind two words: Jeremiah Wright. For those who doubt he grew up in a different world...

Aw man, somebody removed the "Coonskin" Bakshi vids from YouTube! Here's another one that works for "Heavy Traffic":

+ Watch video

@bittergreen: Where I lived they had Sambo's restaurants.

The earliest Tom & Jerry consisted of a cat named "Jasper," not "Tom," and a black "mammy" that you could only see from the knees down yelling, "Jasper, you bedda git dat mouse!"

Apparently they changed it up a bit and just kept the interspecies, animal kingdom turmoil for its entertainment value of the era.

@famousauthor: Oh god, don't EVEN. I watched his NAACP speech on CNN. What a load. Everything he says basically boils down to "Jesus approves of the political organizations I approve of". I hate when religion gets mixed into politics in such specific ways. He bugs the crap out of me.

@famousauthor:

I agree with you famousauthor. Did anyone see the Bill Moyer's interview? Very illuminating. Unfortunately the people who SHOULD HAVE SEEN it aren't the ones who watched it.

@ILovePuppies: Yeah, I remember eating at one of those as a small kid and the only thing that registered as beyond the pale to me was that a Tiger could be melted into butter. Years later, after I thought they'd all been shamed out of existence, I would still see one now and again.

@AfroGuapo:

Ya, I saw it. Those hardhitting questions Moyers through at him must of stung like a nerf ball!

Japs FREE. Cuz NO ONE likes japs. Am I right or am I right? (I feel like I should say I'm joking here. Ya never know.)

What a maroon.

They aren't animated but the Little Rascals/Our Gang series was incredibly racist. One episode had one of the black boys turned into a monkey. The black kids always ate watermelon and fried chicken and their dads were often mentioned as being in jail.

@scroll_lock: where have you been?

@BalknChain: I was in jail. Well, actually I was in a GD meeting for most of the morning which I felt entitled moi to a lengthy luncheon. I enjoyed some of your comments today, Black Foreclosure Face. How's my BnC?

@scroll_lock: *hand waves under chin*

Don't forget Alfalfa's unruly, nappy hair and the The He-Man Woman Haters Club.

@scroll_lock: Meaning of course, that I'd only read SOME of them, not that I'd read them all and only enjoyed a few. Such as. What?

@PaisleyPajamas: Why were they all named after grain or grain products, anyway? Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Farina...

@scroll_lock: Oops, before that looks too racist, I believe it was Black Home Foreclosure Plague. I am quite tired, but feeling a bit better since lunch myself. Buuuusy weekend. You?

@scroll_lock: Are your personalities at war again?

@BalknChain: My reply earlier disappeared. At the risk of the dreaded double post, I said I figured they knew foreclosure doesn't discriminate. Yes, busy weekend landscaping the house and all. I'm officially pooped! What did you do?
@BalknChain: They're barely on speaking terms since the blow-up on Thanksgiving.

@scroll_lock: We were doing some typical Spring cleaning: garage cleanout, a bit of siding powerwashing, washing the deck furniture, wallpapering the living room and preparing for my son's birthday party.

@BalknChain: Happy Boifday, little BnC! How old?
BTW, I have a few things you could do at my house now that you've finished yours. :)

Have to go to the gym now. Have a good evening.