Blackface didn't carry the same charge in the UK that it has in America. In Britain, especially in the era of AYBS and before, the average Englishman would have seen it as no big thing. As usual, Americans have to become completely unhinged and hysterical over anything to do with race, even an innocuous comic routine like this--where you'd have to be turning over rocks to claim it was being intended as intentionally 'racist' towards anyone.
And, also as usual, Americans love to export their neuroses around the world and force their guilt trips on everyone else. Considering the situation existing in the USA today, I don't think any American has much call getting huffy over a skit on a British television show from forty years ago. Collectively, America doesn't look to have evolved too awfully much in its attitudes towards the black man itself.
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light_keeper79
8 years ago
I noticed that Wendy was the only one that didn't appear in blackface. I had never remember watching either blackface episode in the States. The only time I remember seeing it here in the States was once on All in the Family and once on that Nell Carter as a maid show I can't remember the name to at the moment. I do remember thinking when I saw these episodes on the DVD set that they couldn't make it here in the States. I think it is one thing to just put on the makeup and another to actually do the Song and Dance with it. I also feel that this particular episode was one big negative stereotype to anyone from the countryside.
George
"All that is gold dose not glitter, not all those who wander are lost."
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