Al Jolsen


Black face? People still did that in the 1940s? Shameful.

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So what! That was the way it was!

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How about black guy in black face, 1931? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPeBbEOOmNk

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This scene is set in the '20s, though.

And Jolson never did blackface to mock the black people, it was a way to show his admiration to them.

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