Posted on 11/24/2005 2:38:23 PM PST by Stoat
She is just having her minstrel period.
So to say that it was approved or acceptable to liberals is complete and utter intellectual dishonesty.
Its your basic liberal drivle. Who cars if someone is offended?
My point had nothing to do with whether anyone was offended or not. It had to do with being honest. The original posters that I replied to referenced the incident as thought it enjoyed liberal support, and if not support, and least acceptence, and it wasn't true. I've got this thing about honesty, it's important.
Of course it was disapproved. In the leftist pecking order, Blacks rank higher than White liberals.
I think Whoppie Goldberg (Danson's soul mate de juere)
also appeared with Ted ...sort of giving the whole thing
a black stamp of approval..
They got mad at Ted but not at Whoopie...?
Go figure.
I'm not a leftist, but I thought it showed poor judgement.
Now that I didn't know. That's somewhat troubling.
Remember, blacks good whites bad. Nothing to see unless the blue-eyed devil does it.
However, not having to listen to Whoopie would certainly have obvious advantages.
Oh he was certainly scolded after but it was his main squeeze at the time - Whoopie Goldberg - who came up with the stunt and wrote his material. That it backfired was because more Conservative persons took offence, if I remember correctly.
FYI - "Other detractors claim, however, that Goldberg did insult her own people when, at the infamous Friars Club roast, she and then-boyfriend Ted Danson dressed up in blackface and spouted N-word-laced zingers, from a script penned in part by Whoopi. More recently, she was criticized for hosting the Oscars in the face of Jesse Jackson's almost-boycott of the event. And many sisters and brothers deem her choice of White men as husbands and lovers a slap in the face to the race." - Essence - January 1997
The Greatest Entertainer who ever lived was Al Jolson.
He didn't 'black up' to demean anybody. It was an accepted art form and he is the only man who actually brought it into the 'mainstream' from Vaudeville.
Black Americans were some of his biggest fans. Cab Calloway co-starred with Jolson in "The Singing Kid" in 1936, and yes, they did a number together with all black performers and Al - in blackface.
Calloway was also one of the original members of the Al Jolson Society.
Back in 1985 I attended a screening of "Halellujah I'm a Bum" (a 1933 Jolson film that is probably his best, with a Rogers and Hart score and available on DVD) at the Smithsonian Institution in DC for Jolson's Centennary.
In the very back row of the theater there were about 10 finely dressed elderly black ladies, the youngest of whom was probably 80.
They didn't dress up like that to go see a star who 'demeaned' anybody. They came to remember a local Baltimore boy who made good, and whose fans they had been in their youth.
If you want more information about the greatest singer America has ever produced, I invite you to go here:
http://www.jolson.org
It was totally accepted by the liberals after Whoopi came out and said she put Danson up to it. The fact that he got other jobs including going on to "Becker" after that tells me that no grudge was held by the liberals against Danson. That never would have happened if Danson wasn't an ultraliberal himself.
Can anyone explain to me why something they did off campus on their own time should held against them?
If the university tried to impose any punishment against me, my first stop would be in the office of a lawyer.
The President, Dean of Students, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, and most of the faculty are liberals. However, many of the students are at least in the center, if not conservative. We conducted a straw poll of the campus before the election last year. Bush won by 15%. College Republican meetings regularly fill up the classroom while College Democrats are lucky to fill up half of a small study room.
Uhhhhhhh....but wearing cornrows and gold caps is something blacks do TODAY, some 40 years after desegregation. Isn't it?
I agree..It was completely ignorant.Its 2005 and these so called educated college women should know that blackface antics are an insult and a tasteless joke.
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