I remembered this commercial:
I could finish this song:
Dialect humor was screamingly funny in the Golden Age of Radio -- surviving, like the minstrel show, into the 50s and 60s. Depicting race is not the same as racism. Neither is exploiting the conventions of stereotype. And there is a difference between race and culture, which fact is one of the great beauties of America. Even so, we might not be overly-sensitive if we note an undercurrent here:
But what else should we expect, when we encounter something as utterly astounding as ... this:
The wonderment isn't how we have survived as a species. It's why we'd want to.
J
2 comments:
That's the voice of Mel Blanc in the second video. A cross between Speedy and Bugs no doubt.
Yep. Do you remember it?
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