Benign neglect will save black America

The Times ^ | July 10, 2004 | Jonah Goldberg

[Vigilanteman]

Minstrel? Is that a racial slur of some sort?

Only when cousins and honkys use it.

[nopardons]

Since all famous "Mintrel Shows" were done by whites in blackface,yes,it is a slur on Bill.

[Texas Eagle]

Since all famous "Mintrel Shows" were done by whites in blackface,yes,it is a slur on Bill.

ahhhhh. So ol' Cos is an Oreo, eh, Mizz Brown?

[Ulysses]

bump for later

[nopardons]

Not in my book.

Did you know that when blacks were in Minstrel shows,even all black ones,they too wore blackface?

[Chode]

Right!!! It's always nice to have a clue when learning.

Quitting teaching phonics ranks right up there with starting teaching "NEW MATH"!!!

[Texas Eagle]

As Johnny Carson would say, I did not know that.

[wtc911]

Maybe Ennis WAS completely innocent.As I understand it,he was murdered by Russian mobsters while driving a VERY expensive car.There were rumblings at the time that Ennis may have had some seedy friends and,as someone once said,"if you want to know a person's charcter,look at their friends" Riverman......

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Ok, Ennis Cosby was a doctorate candidate in Special Ed when he was murdered, we all know about the seedy characters running that racket. The "VERY" expensive car was bought by his "very" wealthy dad. The russian who killed him for his car was no mobster, just a thug.

Got any habits aside from character assassination, of a murder victim yet. Pitiful.

[Snerfling]

the murderer was an 18-year-old Ukrainian immigrant hood acting on his own

Who was enthralled with the 'gansta' style that Cosby is criticizing. After he committed the crime, he bragged about it to all his friends. Then, after they arrested him, he was so stupid that he continued to brag about his exploits while still in jail! Needless to say, his parents are deeply ashamed - all they wanted to do was get ahead in the USA.

[nopardons]

I've always loved Minstrel Shows and even went to one,in London,on my honeymoon.:-)

They were NOT an insult to blacks at all and many blacks were FAMOUS interlocutors and cakewalk dancers and the like,in the late 1800s-early 1900s. And yes,I have done research on this matter.

The same race hustlers were around back then,and their descendants are with us today."AMOS AND ANDY" was a GREAT show and did NOT denigrate blacks at all,but the NAACP got them off the air.That show and Minstrel Shows were better than the appalling garbage in rap videos,and black movies,that are hailed today.:-P

[headsonpikes]

Knights of the Mystic Sea placemarker.

Amos 'n Andy was my favorite show when I was a little kid!

The Kingfish ... ah, those were the days. ;^)

[nopardons]

One of my favorites too,when I was a bitty girl.:-)

My husband has the tapes of the show (yes,you can buy them,our daughter gave them to him for a Christmas present a few years ago)and they're still hysterically funny.

[headsonpikes]

As a pre-schooler, back in the day before TV, I used to lay on the floor in front of the radio listening to programs like A&A imagining that their kitchen was like our kitchen and their house was like our house - they were real people to me.

Radio was far better for developing the imagination than TV, imho. ;^)

[cyborg]

Listen to you two talk about the good ole days before the wheel- I mean television was invented :ducking and running:

[headsonpikes]

You don't have to duck and run. ;^) There were some good old days, and that's a fact! Never had no plumbing problems, neither!

[cyborg]

The question is why did they wear blackface? I watched a show about Bojangles and the things black people had to go through back then were unreal (in Hollyweird no less). I do think that most the gangsta rappers are as bad even worse now, and pretty much spit in the face of the old people gone by.

[nopardons]

As a "radio kid" too,I fully concur.Children hAd to usze their imaginations back then...something they nolonger do and as a result,they are almost incapabale of imagining much of anythying today.It's a shame.

Did you listen to THE LONE RANGER,BIG JOHN AND SPARKY,THE JACK BENNY SHOW,and INNER SANCTUM too?

[nopardons]

hehehehehehehehe.........

We had T.V. when I wsas bitty,too,but I still listened to the radio and it WAS better.:-)

[Howlin]

Children hAd to usze their imaginations back then

To this day, I cannot do books on tape because the voice distracts me......I like to READ it myself.

[cyborg]

I like radio better. It's always entertaining to imagine Mike Savage foaming at the mouth about Dubya ;-) There's no way someone can pull off HG Wells War of the Worlds today. Everyone is darned skeptical!