From My FB Feed:
How ironic the VA Governor is fighting to survive a full term.
out of the evening standard
"The classic family film Mary Poppins has been branded racist by a US academic who accuses Dame Julie Andrews of 'blacking up' with soot while dancing with chimney sweeps.
In a piece for the New York Times, Professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner criticises one of the film's iconic moments, when Mary Poppins joins Dick Van Dyke's Bert to dance on a rooftop for the classic song Step in Time.
He writes: "When the magical nanny (played by Julie Andrews) accompanies her young charges, Michael and Jane Banks, up their chimney, her face gets covered in soot, but instead of wiping it off, she gamely powders her nose and cheeks even blacker."
This might seem like an innocuous comic scene if Travers’s novels didn’t associate chimney sweeps’ blackened faces with racial caricature. “Don’t touch me, you black heathen,” a housemaid screams in “Mary Poppins Opens the Door” (1943)".
When the dark figures of the chimney sweeps Step in Time on a roof, a naval buffoon, Admiral Boom shouts, “We’re being attacked by Hottentots!” and orders his cannon to be fired at the “cheeky devils”.
"We’re in on the joke, such as it is: These aren’t really black Africans; they’re grinning white dancers in blackface. It’s a parody of black menace; it’s even posted on a white nationalist website as evidence of the film’s racial hierarchy." Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought
Killing a baby is okHow about contributing to the deaths of millions.
....but a 35 year old picture with shoe polish on your face?
Somebody get a rope. Originally Posted by TheDaliLama
And here we have Ted and Whoopie. Oh Whoopie sure is enjoying that blackface. Where is her outrage?https://cdn.hillreporter.com/wp-cont...7.50.10-AM.png
Those racists. Originally Posted by Austin Ellen
Killing a baby is okI'm reading where his nickname was "Coonman" and that he participated in several blackface dance contests. Yet to be confirmed.
....but a 35 year old picture with shoe polish on your face?
Somebody get a rope. Originally Posted by TheDaliLama
https://cdn.hillreporter.com/wp-cont...7.50.10-AM.png Originally Posted by themystic
this Dude has a BAD WEEK.
ironic that his infanticide remarks were welcomed by the same people that now want him out, over a 35 year old skit.
Dude looks to have lied.. that is the biggest issue to me, trying to hide, change your story. if he can prove he was not in the Coon photo, and can corroborate the Michael Jackson tale, I would give him a pass.. I would side eye him the rest of his term.
but he needs to resign if he can't prove his story by Wednesday.. I don't have all day. Originally Posted by Chung Tran
dumbo did have the crows speaking and singing in what some think is a "black dialect", maybe that's what he's referring to
Dumbo is .. racist!
I give you .. the racist coffee cup!
black coffee is RACIST! Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid