Posted on 02/02/2019 6:33:58 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Mary Poppins branded racist by US academic - for 'blacking up' in iconic sweeps' rooftop scene
US Professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner criticised the classic Mary Poppins film
The academic criticises the film in an article published in the New York Times
In one scene Mary Poppins's face is covered with soot after going up a chimney
Professor Pollack-Pelzner writes: 'Her face gets covered with soot, but instead of wiping it off, she gamely powders her nose and cheeks and gets even blacker'
By Chris Hastings for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 17:38 EST, 2 February 2019 | Updated: 20:17 EST, 2 February 2019
Dame Julie Andrews’s performance as Mary Poppins is racist, says a US academic who accuses her of ‘blacking up’ when her face is covered with soot as she dances with chimney sweeps.
The scene in which Poppins joins Dick Van Dyke’s Bert and his fellow sweeps on a rooftop for the song Step In Time is one of the best-loved moments in the 1964 Disney classic.
But writing in the New York Times under the headline ‘Mary Poppins, and a Nanny’s Shameful Flirting With Blackface,’ Professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner attacks the scene. Not surprisingly, the film’s legions of devoted fans have reacted with disbelief.
The literature professor acknowledges that Poppins’s face is covered with soot because she has gone up the chimney with her charges, Michael and Jane Banks.
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Everything is racist sexist xenophobic homophobic etc. Absolutely everything will.offend these idiots.
This is satire, right?? I mean seriously...who thinks this crap up?
Just your typical liberal a-hole looking to find something to get upset about.
“’Her face gets covered with soot, but instead of wiping it off, she gamely powders her nose and cheeks and gets even blacker’
LOL
Killing off history that is the their goal.
Hey Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, so what if she did. Get over it ahole.
Qoute from Thomas Sowell: “Some ideas are so idiotic only an academic could believe them.”
Must be racist now to be a coal miner, also.
Please just shut up, Daniel Polelick-Pilsner.
“All white people branded racist by US academic - for having “dark” bowel movements.”
So true. Either the entire country is having a mental breakdown or it’s really “1984”.
“Academia” is garbage.
Then all the old films that show blacks ‘working’ are racist for showing blscks with good work and family ethics.
Wanna get nuts? Lets get nuts.
Now all coal miners are racess.
Hey, he is now famous....as an idiot.
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