Note: At 3:11 I say Uncle Tom's Cabin was an "Anti-abolitionist tale" I believe I misspoke. The book was an abolitionist tale meaning it was anti-slavery. Those who were against slavery were known as abolitionists, and those who were pro-slavery were anti-abolitionists.
Do a presentation about how African American entertainment influenced the 90s EDM dance music in Europe. Most of the black "European" musicians in the European EDM music scene were actually black Americans.
Appreciate this video. It’s so important to recognize how the way Black people are portrayed, even when led by Black directors still is largely shaped by the whims and comfort of a white gaze.
This is an incredibly well written and researched video! It's very informative for a lot of important reasons, but also I had NO IDEA that Tom and Jerry were originally human!!
To be fair, the human Tom and Jerry have nothing to do with the cat and mouse duo, they had different creators and different studios producing them, they only share a similarly in the name. But ya her point still stands both shows had some racist shit
I knew to an extent about "the films Disney doesn't want you to watch," (ex. Song of the South) but seeing Blackface Mickey doing parodies of Uncle Tom was like a truck to the face.
Fantastic video. I'd heard a lot of bits and pieces about the history of minstrel shows and blackface on the whole, as well as the overall tropes perpetuated by them, but never in such detail. Most videos/articles you find on the topic are a lot less thorough, so I appreciated the depth with which you discussed the topic. It's genuinely insane to me how recently some shows have done blackface bits. It's just another reminder that all of this history is much more recent than many people (especially white people) would like to admit.
Excellent research and thanks for the “Uncle Toms Cabin” breakdown since I’ve never read the book before. Keep up the quality work and you will go far.
Now this is just a comment on our small town library. About a year ago I was trying to research the reconstruction period of American history. Our library has NOTHING on reconstruction and neither do any of the lending libraries around us. I live in a small town. But the Civil War period is so much a part of American history -- how can a library have nothing on this yime period? I was surprised and frustrated at the same time. I have heard of Jim Crow laws my whole life but never knew anything about them and then find our library has literally NOTHING. So frustrating. Does anyone know if libraries in other areas have this problem? Or not?
I would like to offer some formatting notes if that's ok: this is my first time watching a video of yours and it seems really well researched. I listened to the whole thing and it maybe could have been broken up into two videos. Obviously, your analysis is the best and most valuable part to any viewer/listener but I feel like that was mostly lost in the documentarian early middle toward the end of the video. Then also, the video could maybe use an end card to allow the viewer to process for a second, click back onto the video and subscribe if they would like to. When I was listening, the next video just started after and it was a little jarring.
I appreciate the feedback, I was really consumed by the research aspect when developing this video. I think the storytelling process is the hardest part for me sometimes but it's something I want to focus more on in future vids. I like the ideas about the end cards and allowing the viewer to process. Thank you!
really glad this came up on my feed, i immediately marked it to watch. this was really informational for me even after thinking i knew most of what there was to know about racist stereotypes in media. thank you so much for sharing.
I think it’s interesting how we as a society do not talk about this era of life. How these movies have super fans that collect artifacts about these times. It’s disgusting how we just let Disney get away with this. Funny how they kind of just archived their most racist era and just act like it didn’t happen. Hollywood is the most important vessel of white supremacy. These indoctrinating films and books were created, celebrated, and made popular by white people. White people who have children and grandchildren still alive today. We don’t hold people accountable enough. There were plenty of people who were against this bull back in the day just like there are now. Like an entire generation of people grew up watching this as entertainment but now people want to deny racism because it’s not as blatantly depicted like how it used to be.
Very Informative. This video has connected so many layers of pop culture and the usual off putting feeling I get from modern entertainment today. Thank you.
Re: willa wonky book. That's trippy! When I was in middle school, I read the original version and was blown away by that origin story of the oompa loompas! 😱 I guess my school library had an older version. 🤨 Re: jazz music. This makes me reevaluate Donkey Kong Country. 😢 Thanks for this informative overview! 🤖🖤
In one of his episodes in the early 1980's, I remember seeing Benny Hill portrayed a character in blackface. His character was supposed to be a heavy black woman singing. That was dreadful.
The only reaon Whoopi and Dansen could have thought blackface would be okay at her roast is because cameras usually aren't allowed? They knew it wouldn't fly in public.
I get what you're saying-- I'm Jamaican. But "pickney" in Jamaica is pretty much equivalent to "child" and "pickaninny" in the US is equal to the stereotype she spoke about-- an unkempt, unruly, neglected black child. It's like someone saying they don't understand the difference between calling someone "negro" in Spanish, which just means black, and calling them "nigg*r" which is derived from the same root word. One is very much a slur.
@@vbrown6445 just making sure. You never know who will get offended by what nowadays. Especially when I’m not a black Jamaican I tend to raise a few eyebrows when I speak patois.
in my favourite show, community, theres a deleted episode where during a play session of dnd, one of the characters dresses up as a dark elf. he is then quickly called out for being in blackface. this episode was pulled despite being considered one of the best episodes. do you think this is a good thing?(if that matters for some reason, the actor is asian)
I think I saw a clip of that as well during my research, I can't speak to whether it should've been pulled since I've never seen the full episode. Maybe they could've done what they did with The Office, and somehow removed the clip but kept the rest of the episode, hard to say without context
@@fromPentoPost i dont really remember the episode. it was a really good episode, though i dont remember if he kept the "blackface" in the rest of the episode.
The same people who owned the slave ships the same people who own the media the same people who own the record labels pushing out drill kill that ninja music. A very specific group of people.
Dear Destiny, thank you for a very objective and honest explanation of blackfacr throughout american and english history. Im Dutch myself and can fill you in on the background of black pete if you wish
While your summary is impressive, OUR GANG series was a theatrical series that ran for 20 years. They were not produced for television since television did not really get started until after World War II. "The SAHM-BO" was pronounced SAM-BO. It should be noted that Paramount continued the use of Black Stereotypes long after other studios had abandoned it. This is the detail that mars many of the LITTLE LULU and LITTLE AUDREY cartoons with the Mammy characters of "Mandy" and "Petunia" respectively. While the first 3/4 is a review of past stereotypes, there needs to be more concern about contemporary stereotypes, and due to supposed enlightenment, we are supposed to know better. However, there is difference today compared to the past. There are Black people involved with producing shows now, which as not the case 70 and more years ago. That was essentially the controversy behind AMOS N' ANDY and its removal from CBS by the NAACP--another important detail that should have been included.
The one clip from The Office was likely about "black Pete", it has to do with the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas. It has nothing to do with "black face".
@@borginburkes1819 He knows,but,won't give the actual answer. His comment-it has nothing to do with: black face-is a cowards explanation. Just own your bias,like the others do.
I remember the king and I. They within the movie put on a play about Uncle Tom Cabin. But it was done in their culture so it was somewhat kind of unusual especially the black face n the movement. Once again it was done n their culture..
Even tho Steven King is one of my favorite authors. In his book he stereotypes his Black characters. The Walking Dead started off as a comic book and the comic book is laced with stereotypes of Blacks. Angry, Mean, weak and oversexualized.... But i have to give the show credit they actually were more fair to the Black characters within th show vs the comic book.
Location location location... My father was born in 1910 in Mississippi to the smartest black people ever! They left there in 1911. To St.Louis Mo. Where my father grew up much like the kids in the our gang serier. He was not bitter nor was he sympatico with the racism. Simply it was the time and ppl made thd most of it not catering to ppl and places where discrimination was rampant. He was aware of rhe difference. Change is slow its too bad we have taken several steps backwards.
My question if they wrote story and at the moment it was true woukd it be considered a stereotypes cause there were tribes in africa brutal, eat humans, in slvaes other ect in africa and there still slaves and africa as a whole may still have people eating human since the last KNOW tribe stop eating just like 30 years ago. So is it a stereotypes since it was a thing back then when the cartoon was written?
I knew about Willy and they r going to come out with another movie. But this time main for some what Charlie. Will be a girl and she will be black. Not sure main plot of the movie maybe how he start off.
I grew up in the 60's-70's the Black people ( my self included) who grew up with "Our Gang", Stepin'Fetchit, Mantan Moreland, Amos n' Andy etc we would see on TV didn't bother us too much because we generally knew that Black folks didn't get down like that, at least most of us didn't 😉 so we laughed at a lot of that ish. I'll say this and stick to it ' a lot of politically incorrect humor can be some of the funniest 😁 we knew better. But what's worse now is how a modern day "Birth of a nation" is being played out in real time and life in rap music and gang/ gangsta and whorish culture. The 'chicken stealing ( now it's Walmart)' minstrel's have come home to roost 🤨
I assure you you didn't know better. It's just that ignorance leaves one in a certain state of bliss. It's ok to admit you don't know things and just went along with the herd. Those of us who do know better won't look at you any differently than we already do
@@BaldwinFanonGarveyTureShakurX What you need to do is stay in your lame lane with that pseudo wanna be Black consciousness social media malarkey. I came up with elders, brothers and sisters in the real struggle as a BPP youth in 1968 on. The old stereotypes of the past did not effect me to the point of seriousness because a real one knows better.
@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 Exactly bro! I also have no malice towards any of those Black actresses and actors of that time, the great "Stepin'Fetchit" who taught Muhammad Ali the " anchor punch" and Hattie McDaniel who would say "I'd rather play a maid making $10,000 a week than be a real one making $10 a week"😉
Yeah uncle ruckus is a black man lol, he was the father to the kid in Malcolm in the middle that was in the wheelchair, boondocks is written by all black people, then you show the black pete celebration In the Netherlands a chimney sweeper, and in folklore he would punish bad kids like Krampus. But lets focus on the bad times in life, that should approve things, and lets not do any studying of stuff before it's posted, the Aunt Jemima's family suing for the removal, and the woman from gone in the wind won a grammy for her performance, only in some southern states black people were banned from the movie theater but that was crow period, and it wasn't like that up north good job well researched
@@LD1FBThe fact that you can say that in social settings, on the internet, at your job (if you have one) and it be okay just proves you aren't as oppressed as you believe you are.
@@ashleysalazar2012 No, there are consequences to everyone’s actions.I’m not stupid enough to post my face and whole name like you. And you’re not black so you don’t have license to speak on my experience. Good day
Good job. 1 criticism. A huge amount of the destructive, negative Black stereotypes that are put out there today are put out there by Black people. If you're being honest, you say that.
Amen. There’s always been money made from exploiting stereotypes. It’s just those who were exploited are now the ones profiting from it. That’s something they do not want to admit nor bring to light. It’s too easy and more propagandized to point out one group from the past and avoid the present.
It really is surreal to see those Uncle Tom cartoons. They're clearly showing the slaveowners as evil, but the positive characters are still so.... yeah. On the other hand, it's eerie that when those cartoons were made, there were still people around who had been alive during slavery. It was still a fresh memory. It makes the disturbing depictions even more unsettling.
Even in vintage media that acknowledges the evils of slavery they'll add small details like making the black characters loyal and subservient like a good 'pet'. It all makes me sick.
Some years back, my mom was watching the AMC channel (I think it was that channel) really late at night and they were playing "The Birth of a Nation". I'd always heard of how bad it was as far as the racism in it, so I watched it... When I tell you that I felt humiliated, devastated, and hurt... I cried watching that movie. It was the same when she was watching "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and I watched it I just cried. It's also the same when I see those old Westerns on TV with the "injuns". My family, as well as being black, is also Native American (Alabama Muscogee/Creek on my mom's side and Blackfeet on my dad's). So, I get pretty well pissed when I watch those movies and see them depicted as "savages". Seeing black people today in roles of doctors, lawyers, authors, business people... something other than criminals, drug pushers, and others used to further perpetuate that black people are "bad", is refreshing. Unfortunately, we still have a long way to go before we're taken seriously.
It's horrible how we have to prove ourselves after having these caricatures forced on us. No matter what we do it seems like there's a caricature for our good or bad habits. I even carry it with me when I care for my nieces, I can't let them look 'pickaninny' despite the fact that their hair will naturally stand sometimes and they prefer not to wear shoes outside.
@@uniquenewyork3325 Are you upset when BLM riots and destroys cities when genuine criminals are treated as such? Do you wonder what that makes other races think of us?
"Be as black as you can be." And that is why I can't stand modern Hollywood's pandering because I just know that director thought they were fostering inclusion and diversity™ in their flick. I hate how "black" is synonymous with acting rather outlandish, uneducated, and crass. I've gotten the same criticisms from all sides of the race spectrum, I've had non-black people say I don't act black and I've had black people joke that I'm the whitest black guy they know because I don't like stereotypically black things. I'm sorry, I did not realize being black was a monolith including personality; I thought it was just determined by the melanin in my skin, facial features, and other superficial details.
Well, if you expect anything to change, stop consuming media where black people willingly participate in acting like a fool just for the sake of a bag. Stop consuming and hyping rap music that portrays black men and women to be promiscuous, aggressive, gang banging and all the rest. I don’t watch anything produced by Tyler perry, or listen to rap music because those portrayals are destructive. Yet black people hype that shit up the most.
How do you define pandering? Give some examples. When I read black people saying this I just think they drank the koolaid of white people upset that a black person happens to be in their film. Interestingly enough you never see this thought towards Asians. (East Asian to be specific. When they see dark skin they immediately think BLACKK!!!) Only when a black person is portrayed. I hope you aren’t falling for exactly what they want you to and that is to not be portrayed at all in their or any modern mainstream media. They want you to stay in the rap music, shitty Tyler perry movies, movies about dramas relating to struggle etc. America is diverse. A bad character who happens to be black is just that. It wasn’t “pandering” or “fostering inclusion” sorry but that’s that’s exactly the kinda shit racist talk points people say when they don’t want you nor your people on their screen. Everything is “pandering” “diversity quota” etc. People said all this shit about Wakanda in the beginning too. Black people get this shit too even in the work place despite wording just as hard as they did to be where they are. I’m just saying. How do you define these things that were solely created by the upset of you reaching the same level that they did? I’m just curious
@@assassin8636 I’m wondering as well. Only racists align with that “black is x bad thing” mindset. They seem to have consumed that mindset too. Because they are upset that their black identity was questioned. They let other people define their blackness. “Black” is not synonymous with anything that they said outside of racist circles and self hating black people.
Interesting video! Particular the first section, the stereotypes that came from Uncle Toms cabin are fairly well known in pop culture but hearing about the origins of them was very eye opening and engaging. Keep doing what you’re doing, this is great stuff. You’ve got yourself a new fan from Australia 😁
Thats crazy. I only knew the stereotypes. I never read the book. I didnt know it was written by the abolitionists and Tom was a sympathetic character who was middle age strong and honorable and would let himself get beat so other people could flee. I only knew the term being an old Black guy who did whatever the enslavers wanted and didnt help other enslaved people. I thought the book existed to show that enslaved people liked being enslaved and were "better off" that way. Which is why I never read it. I guess it goes to show how the racists and enslavers ruin everything they touch. Now I want to read the actual book and see whats really in it.
I vividly remember every single history teacher I had always saying “We just don’t know where the name Jim Crow came from.” Seriously?! Once I learned the origin it seemed so obvious; why were we not taught it?!
Another stereotype that must be addressed is the white savior. Eva from Uncle Tom's cabin was an early example of a white savior. The white savior is always a very good white person that helps black people or rescues black people but he or usually she is always depicted as intellectually and morally superior to the blacks she helps. Like she'll teach a class of impoverished black students from the ghetto or she'll take a poor black orphan into her home off the street but the white person is always praised as the hero. What we need are more depictions of blacks and whites working together side by side as equals.
Double negative there! Uncle Tom was an anti-slavery novel or an abolitionist novel. It wasn't anti-abolitionist. An anti-abolitionist or more properly anti-emancipation and anti- reconstruction novel would be the Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr- the inspiration for the film Birth of a Nation!
That is a great catch, I think I misspoke. Uncle Tom's Cabin was an abolitionist tale, however, it did also inspire many racist caricatures of Black people due to how many of the characters were depicted.
@@fromPentoPost Well, being a grammar fascist is kind of my job, seeing as I'm an English teacher. If you'll excuse an ageing white man weighing in on this video, I have a few anecdotes from my home country, the UK. One of our best loved children's authors was Enid Blyton, a lot of her books are still read today, but the ones featuring golliwogs, grotesque blackface rag dolls, have mostly been altered for modern times. When I was at primary school in the 1970s however, our teacher saw fit to read to us from Blyton's book The Three Golliwogs which features three characters called 'Golly, Woggy and N*gger' and mostly revolves around the joke that they all look the same to the (white) people of the English village where they live. We could be charitable and say that in 1944, Enid Blyton might not have known any better, but a teacher responsible for a roomful of seven-year-olds in the 70s? She should have! Mind you, the 70s were a weird time when it comes to casual public racism in the UK. There was still a minstrel show broadcast on national television! A sitcom about the conflict between a bigoted white guy and his black neighbour, called Love Thy Neighbour was on TV then, too. It was sort-of progressive for its time, but seems very heav-handed and cringe-making to most modern audiences. In one episode, Eddie (the white guy) tries to prove to Bill (the neighbour) that race discrimination is no longer an issue by blacking up to see if he will be treated differently, and is mistaken for a minstrel performer! I attach a link, if you feel up to viewing some very dated comedy: ua-cam.com/video/C84pvy_jZ8w/v-deo.html
Great video! I was sure it was a big channel because of the quality, giving you a sub to get there quicker :) I'm from Poland so I learned what the blackface was only when it started beeing talked about a few years back on examples of youtubers like Shane Dawson. After your video I can grasp the scale of the problem more easily, thank you for educating me. I had no idea that it was such a common thing in US media of 30s and 40s, it's quite shocking. Also all of those Black people stereotypes in media - even as person not born or raised in US culture I can easily see what's wrong with them, so if someone from US says they don't - bullsh*t. They have to know, it's so obvious! They just choose not to see anything wrong, probably mostly because they are not the ones being laughed at. Or because they simply agree with the stereotype. Anyway, I can't wait to see more of your videos, cheers!
Great job! You forgot the "The Magical Negro" stereotype. "The Magical Negro" especially in movies like "The Green Mile", Morgan Freeman in "Bruce Almighty" Will Smith in "Hitch"… and many more are common .
Wonderful and so informative. Nice to see real Black history being taught since we can't get it in schools. Keep up the good work you have a new subscriber!
thank you so much for making this video, i learned a lot. i dont usually leave comments, but ik they help boost videos in the algorithm, and more people should see this!
Note: At 3:11 I say Uncle Tom's Cabin was an "Anti-abolitionist tale" I believe I misspoke. The book was an abolitionist tale meaning it was anti-slavery. Those who were against slavery were known as abolitionists, and those who were pro-slavery were anti-abolitionists.
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That's a cool sounding class
Do a presentation about how African American entertainment influenced the 90s EDM dance music in Europe. Most of the black "European" musicians in the European EDM music scene were actually black Americans.
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Appreciate this video. It’s so important to recognize how the way Black people are portrayed, even when led by Black directors still is largely shaped by the whims and comfort of a white gaze.
Tyler perry
Even Japan portrays black people wrong but some of these kids like watching that bs.
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Don’t show this mf the og Dragonball. Lmao
*cough cough* Tyler Perry, Eddie Murphy, and Chris Rock, though most of these also portray colorist ideals as well
So true. Even bill cosby cartoons have black people with oversized clown lips.
This is an incredibly well written and researched video! It's very informative for a lot of important reasons, but also I had NO IDEA that Tom and Jerry were originally human!!
To be fair, the human Tom and Jerry have nothing to do with the cat and mouse duo, they had different creators and different studios producing them, they only share a similarly in the name. But ya her point still stands both shows had some racist shit
I knew to an extent about "the films Disney doesn't want you to watch," (ex. Song of the South) but seeing Blackface Mickey doing parodies of Uncle Tom was like a truck to the face.
I was so sad seeing goofy with the cardboard cut outs . He's one of my favorites
If you pause a certain episode of Tom and Jerry you are able to see her face with big red lips.
FD has Again brought me to a super-talented person! Great video and looking forward to seeing more!
As a guy who grew up in the 90s i too had these same thoughts as i got older.
A fantastic video. Going to share this around to a number of folks that I think would benefit from seeing it. Thank you kindly, neighbor.
This is very good! This could easily be used in middle schools imo
Sooo... How can 46K people have watched, and only 1K subscribers ? Omg, just click the button you guys, it's not an overwhelming commitment !
Haha thanks for encouraging people!
Fantastic video. I'd heard a lot of bits and pieces about the history of minstrel shows and blackface on the whole, as well as the overall tropes perpetuated by them, but never in such detail. Most videos/articles you find on the topic are a lot less thorough, so I appreciated the depth with which you discussed the topic.
It's genuinely insane to me how recently some shows have done blackface bits. It's just another reminder that all of this history is much more recent than many people (especially white people) would like to admit.
Excellent research and thanks for the “Uncle Toms Cabin” breakdown since I’ve never read the book before. Keep up the quality work and you will go far.
Now this is just a comment on our small town library. About a year ago I was trying to research the reconstruction period of American history. Our library has NOTHING on reconstruction and neither do any of the lending libraries around us. I live in a small town. But the Civil War period is so much a part of American history -- how can a library have nothing on this yime period? I was surprised and frustrated at the same time. I have heard of Jim Crow laws my whole life but never knew anything about them and then find our library has literally NOTHING. So frustrating. Does anyone know if libraries in other areas have this problem? Or not?
I would like to offer some formatting notes if that's ok: this is my first time watching a video of yours and it seems really well researched.
I listened to the whole thing and it maybe could have been broken up into two videos. Obviously, your analysis is the best and most valuable part to any viewer/listener but I feel like that was mostly lost in the documentarian early middle toward the end of the video.
Then also, the video could maybe use an end card to allow the viewer to process for a second, click back onto the video and subscribe if they would like to. When I was listening, the next video just started after and it was a little jarring.
I appreciate the feedback, I was really consumed by the research aspect when developing this video. I think the storytelling process is the hardest part for me sometimes but it's something I want to focus more on in future vids. I like the ideas about the end cards and allowing the viewer to process. Thank you!
You have done 👍 jobs on Black Americans history
This world has so much hate and ignorance to overcome
Keep up d good work.... Keep educating our people, even when dey to stubborn to c it....
really glad this came up on my feed, i immediately marked it to watch. this was really informational for me even after thinking i knew most of what there was to know about racist stereotypes in media. thank you so much for sharing.
I think it’s interesting how we as a society do not talk about this era of life. How these movies have super fans that collect artifacts about these times. It’s disgusting how we just let Disney get away with this. Funny how they kind of just archived their most racist era and just act like it didn’t happen. Hollywood is the most important vessel of white supremacy. These indoctrinating films and books were created, celebrated, and made popular by white people. White people who have children and grandchildren still alive today.
We don’t hold people accountable enough. There were plenty of people who were against this bull back in the day just like there are now. Like an entire generation of people grew up watching this as entertainment but now people want to deny racism because it’s not as blatantly depicted like how it used to be.
Very Informative. This video has connected so many layers of pop culture and the usual off putting feeling I get from modern entertainment today. Thank you.
Re: willa wonky book. That's trippy! When I was in middle school, I read the original version and was blown away by that origin story of the oompa loompas! 😱 I guess my school library had an older version. 🤨
Re: jazz music. This makes me reevaluate Donkey Kong Country. 😢
Thanks for this informative overview! 🤖🖤
What a great video!! The caricatures were explored so thoroughly, I loved it
Well done, ma'am. Informative and nicely put together. We need more vids like this on UA-cam.
The research you put into this is incredible. Thank you for educating
Commenting for the algorithm. This video was very high quality and well researched.
This was super well researched and very interesting. Hope you get way more popular soon, you deserve it!!
Woah awesome Video! Hope this channel gets the recognition it deserves soon!
You are phenomenal!!
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In one of his episodes in the early 1980's, I remember seeing Benny Hill portrayed a character in blackface. His character was supposed to be a heavy black woman singing. That was dreadful.
Excellent commentary. I'm subscribing👍
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Amazing video! ❤
Well done documentary 👏🏽
The only reaon Whoopi and Dansen could have thought blackface would be okay at her roast is because cameras usually aren't allowed?
They knew it wouldn't fly in public.
I grew up with Mammy Two Shoes!! And I grew up in the 80s.
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Do people find the patois word “pickney” offensive? Genuine question because I use a lot of old school patois in my day to day lexicon
I get what you're saying-- I'm Jamaican. But "pickney" in Jamaica is pretty much equivalent to "child" and "pickaninny" in the US is equal to the stereotype she spoke about-- an unkempt, unruly, neglected black child. It's like someone saying they don't understand the difference between calling someone "negro" in Spanish, which just means black, and calling them "nigg*r" which is derived from the same root word. One is very much a slur.
@@vbrown6445 just making sure. You never know who will get offended by what nowadays.
Especially when I’m not a black Jamaican I tend to raise a few eyebrows when I speak patois.
in my favourite show, community, theres a deleted episode where during a play session of dnd, one of the characters dresses up as a dark elf. he is then quickly called out for being in blackface. this episode was pulled despite being considered one of the best episodes. do you think this is a good thing?(if that matters for some reason, the actor is asian)
I think I saw a clip of that as well during my research, I can't speak to whether it should've been pulled since I've never seen the full episode. Maybe they could've done what they did with The Office, and somehow removed the clip but kept the rest of the episode, hard to say without context
@@fromPentoPost i dont really remember the episode. it was a really good episode, though i dont remember if he kept the "blackface" in the rest of the episode.
i was thinking about this too, i just remember shirley saying something along the lines of “are we just going to ignore this hate crime” or something
Khadija Mbowe did a video abojt it though
The same people who owned the slave ships the same people who own the media the same people who own the record labels pushing out drill kill that ninja music. A very specific group of people.
Excellent vid!
Dear Destiny, thank you for a very objective and honest explanation of blackfacr throughout american and english history. Im Dutch myself and can fill you in on the background of black pete if you wish
Thank you for making this video it's so informative ❤
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While your summary is impressive, OUR GANG series was a theatrical series that ran for 20 years. They were not produced for television since television did not really get started until after World War II. "The SAHM-BO" was pronounced SAM-BO. It should be noted that Paramount continued the use of Black Stereotypes long after other studios had abandoned it. This is the detail that mars many of the LITTLE LULU and LITTLE AUDREY cartoons with the Mammy characters of "Mandy" and "Petunia" respectively.
While the first 3/4 is a review of past stereotypes, there needs to be more concern about contemporary stereotypes, and due to supposed enlightenment, we are supposed to know better. However, there is difference today compared to the past. There are Black people involved with producing shows now, which as not the case 70 and more years ago. That was essentially the controversy behind AMOS N' ANDY and its removal from CBS by the NAACP--another important detail that should have been included.
I remember that Louie Armstrong cartoon
What about the Rolling Stones? Blues Bros.?
Great video, very informative
Thank you for this.
New subscriber.
The one clip from The Office was likely about "black Pete", it has to do with the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas. It has nothing to do with "black face".
The Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas is racist.
Making excuses for demonic behavior is your problem.
black pete is still blackface. why do you people need to wear black face paint? literally what is the reason?
@@borginburkes1819 He knows,but,won't give the actual answer. His comment-it has nothing to do with: black face-is a cowards explanation. Just own your bias,like the others do.
@@borginburkes1819if you like, you can look online about the celebration about "Sinterklaas". I'm a she, be the way.
Yes but in time the character did come to look like the American blackface caricature.
It's NOT just here in American. It's a world wide phenomenal. There even same racist stereotype in Asia countries like Japan.
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I remember the king and I. They within the movie put on a play about Uncle Tom Cabin. But it was done in their culture so it was somewhat kind of unusual especially the black face n the movement. Once again it was done n their culture..
Our gang was on in the 70’s after school kids tv. Now our gang pulls drive-bys…. Slangin’ and bangin’…
I wonder if that's where the rapper mulatto got her name from?
I love the little rascals 😊
Even tho Steven King is one of my favorite authors. In his book he stereotypes his Black characters. The Walking Dead started off as a comic book and the comic book is laced with stereotypes of Blacks. Angry, Mean, weak and oversexualized.... But i have to give the show credit they actually were more fair to the Black characters within th show vs the comic book.
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Great video
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My father was born in 1910 in Mississippi to the smartest black people ever! They left there in 1911.
To St.Louis Mo. Where my father grew up much like the kids in the our gang serier. He was not bitter nor was he sympatico with the racism. Simply it was the time and ppl made thd most of it not catering to ppl and places where discrimination was rampant. He was aware of rhe difference. Change is slow its too bad we have taken several steps backwards.
Non one wins in the “long run”. Just an evil annoyance!
What about fat Albert
That’s different he’s just fat that’s all
If the yt folk are not the devil then i don't know who is😢
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My question if they wrote story and at the moment it was true woukd it be considered a stereotypes cause there were tribes in africa brutal, eat humans, in slvaes other ect in africa and there still slaves and africa as a whole may still have people eating human since the last KNOW tribe stop eating just like 30 years ago. So is it a stereotypes since it was a thing back then when the cartoon was written?
This was great but not great about r ppl..but what u did was great.
I hateeeee the representation in media, Tyler Perry really didn't help at all.
I knew about Willy and they r going to come out with another movie. But this time main for some what Charlie. Will be a girl and she will be black. Not sure main plot of the movie maybe how he start off.
1:37 since that has nothing to do with blacks would it really matter having it here since the video is about black portray
1:44 that film portray black guys as rapists of white women
22:00 i would have thought they were making fun of native american indians
I grew up in the 60's-70's the Black people ( my self included) who grew up with "Our Gang", Stepin'Fetchit, Mantan Moreland, Amos n' Andy etc we would see on TV didn't bother us too much because we generally knew that Black folks didn't get down like that, at least most of us didn't 😉 so we laughed at a lot of that ish. I'll say this and stick to it ' a lot of politically incorrect humor can be some of the funniest 😁 we knew better. But what's worse now is how a modern day "Birth of a nation" is being played out in real time and life in rap music and gang/ gangsta and whorish culture. The 'chicken stealing ( now it's Walmart)' minstrel's have come home to roost 🤨
I assure you you didn't know better. It's just that ignorance leaves one in a certain state of bliss. It's ok to admit you don't know things and just went along with the herd. Those of us who do know better won't look at you any differently than we already do
@@BaldwinFanonGarveyTureShakurX What you need to do is stay in your lame lane with that pseudo wanna be Black consciousness social media malarkey. I came up with elders, brothers and sisters in the real struggle as a BPP youth in 1968 on. The old stereotypes of the past did not effect me to the point of seriousness because a real one knows better.
Yeah that’s the thing. While watching it while young you could dissociate yourself from it because you knew it wasn’t true.
@@Duane-tl2zcyeah he doesn’t get that really white folk looked at that shit seriously. We knew better.
@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 Exactly bro! I also have no malice towards any of those Black actresses and actors of that time, the great "Stepin'Fetchit" who taught Muhammad Ali the " anchor punch" and Hattie McDaniel who would say "I'd rather play a maid making $10,000 a week than be a real one making $10 a week"😉
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Yeah uncle ruckus is a black man lol, he was the father to the kid in Malcolm in the middle that was in the wheelchair, boondocks is written by all black people, then you show the black pete celebration In the Netherlands a chimney sweeper, and in folklore he would punish bad kids like Krampus. But lets focus on the bad times in life, that should approve things, and lets not do any studying of stuff before it's posted, the Aunt Jemima's family suing for the removal, and the woman from gone in the wind won a grammy for her performance, only in some southern states black people were banned from the movie theater but that was crow period, and it wasn't like that up north good job well researched
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I'm bout sick of yt people... It's exhausting.
The fact you think all white people are the same enough to say this is racist.
Yous be calling anyone racist who said the same about POC.
If you're sick of UA-cam people, maybe UA-cam isn't for you
@@Nahasapasa white people
@@LD1FBThe fact that you can say that in social settings, on the internet, at your job (if you have one) and it be okay just proves you aren't as oppressed as you believe you are.
@@ashleysalazar2012 No, there are consequences to everyone’s actions.I’m not stupid enough to post my face and whole name like you. And you’re not black so you don’t have license to speak on my experience. Good day
Can you do a video on white face??
Its nothing wrong dressing up as other people. period
Don’t forget about jimmy kimmel
Good job. 1 criticism. A huge amount of the destructive, negative Black stereotypes that are put out there today are put out there by Black people. If you're being honest, you say that.
Amen. There’s always been money made from exploiting stereotypes. It’s just those who were exploited are now the ones profiting from it. That’s something they do not want to admit nor bring to light. It’s too easy and more propagandized to point out one group from the past and avoid the present.
It really is surreal to see those Uncle Tom cartoons. They're clearly showing the slaveowners as evil, but the positive characters are still so.... yeah.
On the other hand, it's eerie that when those cartoons were made, there were still people around who had been alive during slavery. It was still a fresh memory. It makes the disturbing depictions even more unsettling.
Even in vintage media that acknowledges the evils of slavery they'll add small details like making the black characters loyal and subservient like a good 'pet'. It all makes me sick.
That’s because the pro “anti-slavery” white people still didn’t like BLK Ppl. They never did and never will.
Some years back, my mom was watching the AMC channel (I think it was that channel) really late at night and they were playing "The Birth of a Nation". I'd always heard of how bad it was as far as the racism in it, so I watched it... When I tell you that I felt humiliated, devastated, and hurt... I cried watching that movie. It was the same when she was watching "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and I watched it I just cried.
It's also the same when I see those old Westerns on TV with the "injuns". My family, as well as being black, is also Native American (Alabama Muscogee/Creek on my mom's side and Blackfeet on my dad's). So, I get pretty well pissed when I watch those movies and see them depicted as "savages".
Seeing black people today in roles of doctors, lawyers, authors, business people... something other than criminals, drug pushers, and others used to further perpetuate that black people are "bad", is refreshing. Unfortunately, we still have a long way to go before we're taken seriously.
It's horrible how we have to prove ourselves after having these caricatures forced on us. No matter what we do it seems like there's a caricature for our good or bad habits. I even carry it with me when I care for my nieces, I can't let them look 'pickaninny' despite the fact that their hair will naturally stand sometimes and they prefer not to wear shoes outside.
@@uniquenewyork3325 Are you upset when BLM riots and destroys cities when genuine criminals are treated as such? Do you wonder what that makes other races think of us?
You notice every time someone white plays a native American they always blacken their faces
@@williecrooks3636in the future they'll probably use CGI.
TCM plays Birth of a Nation exclusively, not AMC.
"Be as black as you can be." And that is why I can't stand modern Hollywood's pandering because I just know that director thought they were fostering inclusion and diversity™ in their flick. I hate how "black" is synonymous with acting rather outlandish, uneducated, and crass. I've gotten the same criticisms from all sides of the race spectrum, I've had non-black people say I don't act black and I've had black people joke that I'm the whitest black guy they know because I don't like stereotypically black things. I'm sorry, I did not realize being black was a monolith including personality; I thought it was just determined by the melanin in my skin, facial features, and other superficial details.
No, we’re also a culture.
Well, if you expect anything to change, stop consuming media where black people willingly participate in acting like a fool just for the sake of a bag. Stop consuming and hyping rap music that portrays black men and women to be promiscuous, aggressive, gang banging and all the rest. I don’t watch anything produced by Tyler perry, or listen to rap music because those portrayals are destructive. Yet black people hype that shit up the most.
How do you define pandering? Give some examples. When I read black people saying this I just think they drank the koolaid of white people upset that a black person happens to be in their film. Interestingly enough you never see this thought towards Asians. (East Asian to be specific. When they see dark skin they immediately think BLACKK!!!) Only when a black person is portrayed. I hope you aren’t falling for exactly what they want you to and that is to not be portrayed at all in their or any modern mainstream media. They want you to stay in the rap music, shitty Tyler perry movies, movies about dramas relating to struggle etc. America is diverse. A bad character who happens to be black is just that. It wasn’t “pandering” or “fostering inclusion” sorry but that’s that’s exactly the kinda shit racist talk points people say when they don’t want you nor your people on their screen. Everything is “pandering” “diversity quota” etc. People said all this shit about Wakanda in the beginning too.
Black people get this shit too even in the work place despite wording just as hard as they did to be where they are. I’m just saying. How do you define these things that were solely created by the upset of you reaching the same level that they did? I’m just curious
So what's your point here?
@@assassin8636 I’m wondering as well. Only racists align with that “black is x bad thing” mindset. They seem to have consumed that mindset too. Because they are upset that their black identity was questioned. They let other people define their blackness. “Black” is not synonymous with anything that they said outside of racist circles and self hating black people.
Interesting video! Particular the first section, the stereotypes that came from Uncle Toms cabin are fairly well known in pop culture but hearing about the origins of them was very eye opening and engaging. Keep doing what you’re doing, this is great stuff. You’ve got yourself a new fan from Australia 😁
Thank you! And I agree there are so many stereotypes I knew of but didn't realize had origins in this book!
Thats crazy. I only knew the stereotypes. I never read the book. I didnt know it was written by the abolitionists and Tom was a sympathetic character who was middle age strong and honorable and would let himself get beat so other people could flee.
I only knew the term being an old Black guy who did whatever the enslavers wanted and didnt help other enslaved people.
I thought the book existed to show that enslaved people liked being enslaved and were "better off" that way. Which is why I never read it.
I guess it goes to show how the racists and enslavers ruin everything they touch.
Now I want to read the actual book and see whats really in it.
I’ve noticed a lot of black reaction channels have turned into modern day minstrel shows.
I vividly remember every single history teacher I had always saying “We just don’t know where the name Jim Crow came from.” Seriously?! Once I learned the origin it seemed so obvious; why were we not taught it?!
Wow you had a terrible teacher.
Another stereotype that must be addressed is the white savior. Eva from Uncle Tom's cabin was an early example of a white savior. The white savior is always a very good white person that helps black people or rescues black people but he or usually she is always depicted as intellectually and morally superior to the blacks she helps. Like she'll teach a class of impoverished black students from the ghetto or she'll take a poor black orphan into her home off the street but the white person is always praised as the hero.
What we need are more depictions of blacks and whites working together side by side as equals.
TV shows like Diff'rent Strokes and Webster were perfect examples of that.
@@JenniferPicaninny Equals??? ABSOLUTELY YES
@@JenniferPicaninny Because we are equal.
@@JenniferPicaninny But not because of the color of their skin.
Double negative there! Uncle Tom was an anti-slavery novel or an abolitionist novel. It wasn't anti-abolitionist. An anti-abolitionist or more properly anti-emancipation and anti- reconstruction novel would be the Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr- the inspiration for the film Birth of a Nation!
That is a great catch, I think I misspoke. Uncle Tom's Cabin was an abolitionist tale, however, it did also inspire many racist caricatures of Black people due to how many of the characters were depicted.
@@fromPentoPost Well, being a grammar fascist is kind of my job, seeing as I'm an English teacher. If you'll excuse an ageing white man weighing in on this video, I have a few anecdotes from my home country, the UK. One of our best loved children's authors was Enid Blyton, a lot of her books are still read today, but the ones featuring golliwogs, grotesque blackface rag dolls, have mostly been altered for modern times. When I was at primary school in the 1970s however, our teacher saw fit to read to us from Blyton's book The Three Golliwogs which features three characters called 'Golly, Woggy and N*gger' and mostly revolves around the joke that they all look the same to the (white) people of the English village where they live. We could be charitable and say that in 1944, Enid Blyton might not have known any better, but a teacher responsible for a roomful of seven-year-olds in the 70s? She should have! Mind you, the 70s were a weird time when it comes to casual public racism in the UK. There was still a minstrel show broadcast on national television! A sitcom about the conflict between a bigoted white guy and his black neighbour, called Love Thy Neighbour was on TV then, too. It was sort-of progressive for its time, but seems very heav-handed and cringe-making to most modern audiences. In one episode, Eddie (the white guy) tries to prove to Bill (the neighbour) that race discrimination is no longer an issue by blacking up to see if he will be treated differently, and is mistaken for a minstrel performer! I attach a link, if you feel up to viewing some very dated comedy: ua-cam.com/video/C84pvy_jZ8w/v-deo.html
Great video! I was sure it was a big channel because of the quality, giving you a sub to get there quicker :) I'm from Poland so I learned what the blackface was only when it started beeing talked about a few years back on examples of youtubers like Shane Dawson. After your video I can grasp the scale of the problem more easily, thank you for educating me. I had no idea that it was such a common thing in US media of 30s and 40s, it's quite shocking. Also all of those Black people stereotypes in media - even as person not born or raised in US culture I can easily see what's wrong with them, so if someone from US says they don't - bullsh*t. They have to know, it's so obvious! They just choose not to see anything wrong, probably mostly because they are not the ones being laughed at. Or because they simply agree with the stereotype.
Anyway, I can't wait to see more of your videos, cheers!
Great job!
You forgot the "The Magical Negro" stereotype.
"The Magical Negro" especially in movies like "The Green Mile", Morgan Freeman in "Bruce Almighty" Will Smith in "Hitch"… and many more are common .
Wonderful and so informative. Nice to see real Black history being taught since we can't get it in schools. Keep up the good work you have a new subscriber!
I'm glad that you're pointing out the modern ones. It's a huge issue.
thank you so much for making this video, i learned a lot. i dont usually leave comments, but ik they help boost videos in the algorithm, and more people should see this!
In defence to south park : the show uses dark humor , is made to be controversial.
If you don't like dark humor that's ok
Its toilet humour