School reenactment/klan costumes

[Racket_Man]

Of course let's also not forget...that some cartoons, like Bugs Bunny, are no longer allowed to be seen on TV. Quite a few referred to the Japanese as "Nips." Racist, of course...but from a historical perspective, nothing more than propaganda. What's odd, is that I remember seeing them occasionally as a child in the 1970s and '80s...yet they're no longer aired.

If you really want to see them search youtube. most if not all "banned" WB cartoons are there in some form or another.

I remember seeing most of them until the mid to late 70's either on Saturday morning cartoons (The Buggs Bunny/Road Runner hour/ two hour) or the half hour afternoon version.

but then again in the mid to late 70's into the early 80's, WB started to cut and slice and censor out all of the cartoon violence (OHHHHH cartoon violence can lead to being a serial killer!!!!!!!) out of their toons. which sucked having seen the oringinals.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Dumbo is also pegged as racist, cuz of the crows; which puzzles me slightly. The crows, while being shown as stereotypical black people, are also the cleverest characters in the movie; and also the kindest. There are Disney movies that show black people in a far worse light; so why all the hate for Dumbo?

[Red Panda]

Because one of the crow's name is Jim.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I'm aware of that, but my point still stands. The crows are the cleverest characters; surely it would be better to throw the slings and arrows at a Disney cartoon where there's worse depictions?

[KnitShoni]

The crows are seen as uneducated and poor, the way they speak is generally attributed to American Blacks, and the fact that White actors voiced them is not much different than White actors in Blackface. Those are three main reasons why people have issues with the crows.

[Lachrymose]

I'm aware of that, but my point still stands. The crows are the cleverest characters; surely it would be better to throw the slings and arrows at a Disney cartoon where there's worse depictions?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_negro

[BookstoreEscapee]

They probably would have been best off doing the filming off campus. At the very least, the principal should have known what was happening and they shouldn't have been walking through the school in costume. She shouldn't be fired over it, though.

A colleague of my mother once got a bunch of students in a tuff because they were reading something in Literature and the word, "niggerdly". The students were too ignorant to understand that it didn't mean what they thought it did.

When this book first came out, there was some news coverage of it and we had to keep it behind the registers for safe-keeping.

I'm just glad there weren't any black kids in my American Literature class. We read Huck Finn, and the name "Nigger Jim" is repeatedly in that book, and *gasp* we read nearly the entire book out loud in class, with permission to say "Nigger Jim".

Cheese and Rice, get over it, people.

I'm sure there were black students in my class, and we had no problems reading that book. Or Of Mice and Men, either. We didn't read them out loud, though. (Generally we only read plays out loud, cuz, well, that's how they're suppoesd to be read.)

To Kill A Mockingbird? Surprisingly not banned yet.

That is one of my favorite books. I never read it in school, though. (Though it was always on the summer reading lists when I worked in the bookstore.) It has most definitely been banned in the past.

[smileyeagle1021]

It was pure coincidence that the people they targeted were black, black supporters, or notherners. Had nothing to do with racism.

... at first...
It did not take long though for the fact that the people they were targeting were black and black supporters and northerners started to attract those people who were racist who began to turn it into what it is today.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

It's not uncommon for organizations to get hijacked by those intent on something other than the original purpose. In fact, it's probable that such a shift is basically inevitable.