So, is the very Jewish NYTimes going to condemn Al Jolson for
“Mammy”.... NO? Why not in this nightmare of PC crapola. “Mammy” was rendered in emotional appreciation of the the cultural figure of the “Mammy”— in history. The Ultimate Matriarch even as she was a house servant— the GLUE that held families together in a difficult time. No one remembers this— and then proceeds to castigate respectful memory of a bygone time, by calling it “condescending”. It was not. Especially not in Vaudeville times (it was, in fact, risque, much as Stephen Foster’s writings for Mr. Christy and his Minstrel Show— about the plight of slaves and that culture in the 1850’s. But still, the City of Pittsburgh found reason..just because, to remove the statue to their respectful Native Son, Stephen Foster... because...racism and all. What absolute horse shiite.)
How dare you provide historical context for the use of blackface! How dare you not respond to any and every use of blackface as an incidence of unvarnished, obvious, and malicious racism! /s