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To: GOPJ

Imagine a big smile, as only the Kingfish could make!

The series was a well written one that entertained without any negative situations.

It could have been done with white actors without losing or gaining any of the situational comedy!!!


57 posted on 02/14/2019 3:43:42 PM PST by BatGuano
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To: BatGuano

It stated white then became a black show...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_%27n%27_Andy

“Amos ‘n’ Andy is an American radio and television sitcom set in Harlem, Manhattan’s historic black community. The original radio show, which ran from 1928 until 1960, was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden) and Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), as well as incidental characters.”

“When the show moved to television, black actors took over the majority of the roles; white characters were infrequent. Amos ‘n’ Andy began as one of the first radio comedy series and originated from station WMAQ in Chicago.”


58 posted on 02/14/2019 9:03:48 PM PST by GOPJ (Blackface Redux: "Coonman Northam" as Amos, Fairfax as Andy 'n AG Herring as Algonquin J. Calhoun)
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