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To: Cronos
Betty Boop was inspired by Helen Kane.

I'm sorry to break the news to you, but Negroes didn't not invent
everything—not even peanut butter or Egyptian airplanes.

33 posted on 05/20/2026 10:24:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The article is about Betty Boop

In 1932, Helen Kane sued Fleischer Studios and Paramount Publix Corporation for $250,000. She claimed they had stolen her likeness and her famous, baby-voiced “boop-oop-a-doop” singing style. But this backfired on Kane during the New York Supreme Court trial. Fleischer’s defense team proved that Kane did not invent the baby-voiced scatting style. Instead, Kane had stolen it from a young Black child performer named Esther Jones, known on stage as “Baby Esther”

Baby Esther was famous for dancing, making funny faces, and interpolating childlike scat sounds like “boo-boo-boo” and “doo-doo-doo” into her jazz routines


37 posted on 05/20/2026 10:40:27 PM PDT by Cronos (Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Exactly.


42 posted on 05/20/2026 11:06:50 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I have no idea what you are talking about. Are you off your medications again?


46 posted on 05/20/2026 11:51:44 PM PDT by Cronos (Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Check


75 posted on 05/21/2026 6:20:00 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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