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To: itsahoot

Everyone raised hell when the NAACP got Amos & Andy off the air. Most of the hell-raising was from black families who loved the show. One of the greatest comedies of all times killed because of political-correctness.


29 posted on 07/07/2015 5:36:48 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet
Truth is stranger than fact. From Wiki.

The original radio show, which was popular from the 1920s through the 1950s, was created, written, and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played a number of different characters, including the titular Amos Jones (Gosdon) and Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll).

When the show moved to television, black actors took over the majority of the roles; white characters were infrequent.

35 posted on 07/07/2015 9:41:18 AM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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