#1 2013-05-21 12:22:07
Why Are There No Black People On The Jetsons?
Next up: Why were there no black people on I Love Lucy, Father Knows Best, Leave It To Beaver and The Beverly Hillbillies?
Bangs head on desk.
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#2 2013-05-21 13:12:36
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#3 2013-05-21 19:45:41
Q: Why were there no blacks on The Andy Griffith Show, but Odette was on Sing Along With Mitch?
A: Mitch Miller had more balls than Andy.
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#4 2013-05-21 22:12:59
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#5 2013-05-22 00:10:24
Wait. Help me understand. This dude gets *paid* for watching old cartoons and writing (rubbish) about them?
SIGH.
Yeah, Amerika is headed for (or has arrived at) the trash heap of history.
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#6 2013-05-22 00:19:31
I'm from a fly-over state.... What are these "black people" you speak of?
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#7 2013-05-22 04:02:40
whosasailorthen wrote:
Yeah, Amerika is headed for (or has arrived at) the trash heap of history.
Spoken like a true tea bagger - however it's better if you proclaim our DOOM IN ALL CAPS!!
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#8 2013-05-22 07:12:12
It's very simple. The Jetsons was produced by White People for White People. At the time, America was over 90% White and didn't begin transforming into a multicultural shithole until the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 was passed by Congress. What I don't understand is why this White cartoon geek would care about the lack of non-Whites in a cartoon that was first broadcast when his parents (or possibly grandparents) were children.
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#9 2013-05-23 17:26:11
AladdinSane wrote:
There were almost no Negroes in the continental United States, aside from a few Pullman Porters, housemaids and midgets (who modeled for lawn jockey statues), until Martin Luther King, Jr. orchestrated a mass influx in the late 1950s in order to get his photograph in Life magazine and other news outlets.
...Seriously, though, as disgusting as that article was to me, the truth is that there is a generation of young adults in this country for whom nearly all of this history is completely unheard-of. They don't know ANY of it; they were not taught much of it in school because in too many places it is still considered too recent, too incendiary or too "controversial" and "upsetting" to teach.
Yes, a large portion of the Millennials actually do need to be told this kind of stuff.
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#10 2013-05-23 18:34:05
George Orr wrote:
AladdinSane wrote:
There were almost no Negroes in the continental United States, aside from a few Pullman Porters, housemaids and midgets (who modeled for lawn jockey statues), until Martin Luther King, Jr. orchestrated a mass influx in the late 1950s in order to get his photograph in Life magazine and other news outlets.
And yet, it was a curiously color blind world, too. Before yesterday, I'd never seen Hogan's Heroes in color, a program notable for its black cast member who demanded more money and was replaced by a black scab. Then again, I know noth-ing...
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#11 2013-05-23 21:24:09
yadda, yadda, yadda...
Huge parts of our populace remain primarily white and the black portion makes up merely 15% of the overall; moan and complain as you like but the statistics don't lie no matter how much you whine.
America is white until the hispanics take over its just reality so deal with it.
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#12 2013-05-24 20:32:12
Emmeran wrote:
yadda, yadda, yadda...
Huge parts of our populace remain primarily white and the black portion makes up merely 15% of the overall; moan and complain as you like but the statistics don't lie no matter how much you whine.
America is white until the hispanics take over its just reality so deal with it.
The Hispanics not living in the Barrio are marrying white people in droves.
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