Weekend Video Time – Racism
When I go back and watch TV shows that I used to watch when I was just a little boy my mind immediately gets blown. It’s amazing what children’s TV shows and movies could get away with just 15-20 years ago. For instance, I just watched an episode of the cartoon David the Gnome and was shocked to find the main character smoking a weird pipe and talks about things most adults couldn’t understand today. Then, you have stuff like this:
According to Warming Glow, this is a clip from an old PBS show in the 80′s called “Many Voices, Many Visions”. Before I read what this video actually was I just assumed that the “little black boy” was really a boy with naturally curly hair, but it’s actually a girl. I should have realized that it was a girl when the very first insult was “you’re a boy”, but I thought that kid was just stupid and making an observation. If this kid didn’t want to look like a boy, it wouldn’t wear goddamn loose jeans and a baggy polo. It’d also help to blow up some balloons and put them in her shirt where boobs will eventually go.
Sure, some people would call the part where the mom says “it’s not like you’re really black”, completely racist, but I think it’s just good parenting. I can’t tell you how many times I was depressed when I was younger and the only thing that would cheer me up is when my mom came in my room with a popsicle and said “Just think, no matter how bad your life gets, at least you’re not black, so cheer up.” It got me through some really hard times.
This clip is just filled with unbelievability, to me. When I was younger I had extremely curly hair that everyone thought was permed and nobody compared me to a black person. Plus, I actually had black people in my school to be compared too, unlike this show which probably didn’t feature anything but whites. How are kids going to throw out insults about something they don’t even know exists? It’s the sloppy writing that offends me more than anything.
I bet the creators of this show are absolutely shocked these days that white people actually try to look and act black on purpose, instead of doing it accidentally and then getting ridiculed for it. That is, if they’re still alive after they got arrested for hate crimes and survived multiple shanking attempts in the prison yard.
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