![]() ![]() ![]() Again anyone who is offended by anything Amos 'n' Andy did are so ridiculously not intelligent that they probably should watch TV or listen to radio at all. All of these programs are meant to be funny and lighthearted, no discriminative or demonstrative. Today many black comedians thrive on making fun of white culture and that still isn't racist. The show was entirely for entertainment and in no way was anyone supposed to come out of it with a negative view towards black people. The characters the writers are trying to portray are just that, fictitious persons with funny personalities. I'm not sure how anyone in their right mind would consider this show offensive.Doing "blackface" is no worse than when women put on way to much makeup, it's silly at best. They were basing the show off of stereotypes of black people, how is that not racist? Reply Delete Its either racist or it isn’t right from the beginning. Nothing becomes racist or suddenly has its “racist label” taken away. That doesn’t take anything away from it being racist. Although during the time period this show aired, it may not have been considered racist and that was just how they were viewed. ![]() Their vernacular and their portrayal as being “incompetent” are just a few examples of how racist it was. The Associated Content article explained it well. I don’t think their characters were based on specific people, but instead generalities of the entire black race. He was impersonating a specific person, who just happened to be black. I did not think that made Jimmy Fallon a racist. I first went to an old Saturday Night Live sketch where Jimmy Fallon came out in blackface and did his impersonation of Chris Rock. When I first read this question, I immediately thought “no, its not racist”. ![]()
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