Dissecting the Casual Racism of “Airplane!”

https://medium.com ^ | Jul 10, 2020 · | Nathanael Molnár

[ConservativeMind]

Many of the other White passengers make periodic comments, saying they can “never understand them.” One of the White passengers turns out to be “fluent in Jive.”

The author sounds somber while stating this. It's hilarious!

[Larry Lucido]

Wasn't there another thread about coffee?

[Political Junkie Too]

I think the movie will be come less digestible by future audiences who don’t understand that many jokes were derived from cultural touchstones that were familiar to audiences at the time.

Just like how Fritz Freleng said that the movie It Happened One Night (1934) with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert was the inspiration for his Bugs Bunny character.

While Bugs might be around for a long time, how many people remember Clark Gable?

-PJ

[BiteYourSelf]

Wait til he watches “Blazing Saddles” his head will explode.🤯

[windsorknot]

Movies like “Airplane!” should include a “trigger” warning.

[Jacquerie]

Caddy Shack.

[jrestrepo]

Watch “Soul Plane” and give me the same critique, then I will listen to what this bozo has to say

FYI, “Soul Plane” had its funny moments too..

[Rurudyne]

Make your day complete by offending a progressive….

[fieldmarshaldj]

This is what happens when someone who isn’t qualified to serve as the assistant to a men’s room attendant is hired to write for some leftist online rag.

[Albion Wilde]

"I speak jive" is one of the funniest movie lines of the past century.

This author doesn't understand the context of the immediate post-Civil Rights decades, where both blacks and whites were trying to decipher each other.

The company I worked for in the 70s had several rather hip black clients. I called one of them with my boss's permission to ask him to explain a few parts of the movie "Shaft" to me (I was a 20-something married woman). He was surprised, but grasped that I was genuinely trying to understand. After he explained, I thanked him, and said, "If you ever want me to explain My Fair Lady, give me a call!" and he broke up laughing.

Humor was how the generations of the 60s through 90s handled the transformation of society. The Dean Martin roasts (still on YouTube) were hilarious, and rife with ethnic references and put-downs. Laughing at ourselves was much healthier than all of today's preciousness.

Nipsy Russell on the Dean Martin Roasts

[ealgeone]

First the Left complains blacks aren’t in movies....then when they’re in movies they complain.....the wokey is never happy.

[ealgeone]

Remember with the LEft....the issue is never the issue....

[Night Hides Not]

Watch them dissect Blazing Saddles. Will they recognize it’s not a racist movie? It’s the opposite, it outright mocks the racist characters and they are the butt of the jokes.

You should see the looks I get from people when I tell them that Richard Pryor co-wrote the script of Blazing Saddles. They simply can't believe it.

Hey, the black man came out victorious.

[FLT-bird]

Its called a sense of humor. You might try developing one. It makes life a lot more enjoyable.

[dfwgator]

My favorite Nipsey Russell line

[Red Badger]

No, he had ‘The Fish’..........................

[Red Badger]

Every 2 minutes.......................

[Red Badger]

Maya Angelou made an observation that is very insightful.

She said that Southern whites and Northern whites are different in their attitudes to blacks.

Southern whites like black folks on a personal, individual basis, but not as a group. IOW, they can have black friends, but a larger group is intimidating.

Northern whites like black folks as a group, but not on a personal basis. IOW, not next door and not in my neighborhood.

Now you tell me who is more racist....................

[Albion Wilde]

Thanks for that meme. Nipsy Russell was uniquely intelligent and talented. His bio on Wikipedia and obituary in the Washington Post are very illuminating.

[Albion Wilde]

I agree with her assessment of south vs north re racial relations. Northerners are great hypocrites, always sneering at the south, while actively discriminating in their region.