The only white people I've seen on BET are the cops from The Wire.

That in itself makes me laugh.

LOL!
People get too carried away. Like how they want to ban the "N" word. I think it's an appropriate word for the non-working poor no matter what race they are.

Lapiche

How about the Chihauha (sp) from Taco Bell? You know, the little taco dog? How about the gecko with a British style accent? I wonder if Foghorn Leghorn is racist aginst white southerners?

A lot of the older cartoons and comedy shows are deemed racist now. Remember that episode of the Three Stooges where they had the black cook in the "haunted house" where he had the big eyes and the hyper southern accent? "I's sho is leaving'".

Maybe even Indiana Jones is racist. There were a number of times that he said tha the hated Nazis and they never showed any Germans who weren't Nazis.

Hey, if it's funny, leave it alone.

That Geico Gecko seems to have grown progressively less distinguished. I used to look at him as a gentleman, but his new accent is just too low class for me.

Look for film debut in Snatch 2.

lmao. Classic.

I don't mind being called a tomato n-...well, piney's probably the only person who has called me that

*leaves*

. The Trotters always acted like they smoked in the van before they hanged around "those nosey kids'. That's why they acted so stupid, just like scoobie...

I wouldn't neccessarily call it racist, but it's certain the NEW SEGREGATION.

why is it racist of a certin minority isnt represented even then if a minority was placed in there and acted the way most act they would deem it s sterio type and taken off the air as a childrens program anyway.

Yer right, Coldethyl.
Go put on your flour sack dress, no shoes. I'll put on my overalls, no shirt and big ol' boots. You can brain them with your big ol' cast iron skillet --- after you've made a big ol' pan of frahd possum an' grits!

It always amazes me that I certainly couldn't say that blacks have rhythm, love watermelon, enjoy wild dancing and weary flashy clothes.
BUT white folks --- especially those in the South --- are routinely portrayed as ignorant, often violent hicks with twangy-accented voices.
It's racism, pure and simple, to lump one group into a negative stereotype.
Today, on a Salt Lake City (Utah) radio station (KBER) I heard an ad for "KBER's White Trash Wedding," complete with hick, twangy voices. Yeeeehawwwww! I'm not sure what the event is, some kind of radio station party. It was disgusting.
I found myself thinking, "Hey Bruthas! Grab yo Ho and yo 9 and git yo black ___ down to da baddddessstttt ... maddeessttttt Gang-Bangah's Ball! Best be showin' up! Don' make me bust a cap in yo ___!"
Imagine the outrage that advertisement would generate, and rightly so.
But the "White Trash Wedding" is okay because, after all, they're just white people.
Ticks me off.

Let us White Folks make a deal with the minorities in this country: We'll let you make fun of whites, if you let us watch stereotypes of you. Bring back all the old cartoons, The Frito Bandito, Amos & Andy, Jack Benny Show and even Bonanza with the Chinese cook, Hop Sing.
Besides, you already have your own minsterel shows: It's called Hip Hop videos. Be honest, rap and hip hop are blatantly racist.
Sound fair? Now, shaddup already! Sheesh!

I don't recall which ancient philosopher said it, but there is great truth in what he said: "All comedy is based on tragedy."

Coldethyyyyyylllll! Dang that woman! Where'd she go? We got us some agitatin' people to whack upside the head! Gimme another servin' of fried possum and then let's git 'er done ... yuk ... yuk ... yuk.

I always thought that that actor was from New Zealand, and not Latino. Of course, that in itself is insulting, isn't it? To be mistaken for a different minority? Oops. Sorry. Wasn't he a Maori, or something? I've probably offended lots of people now, and I certainly didn't mean to. Was he Latino?

People need to get over themselves.

Okay, I just looked for him (Temuera Morrison, the actor that played Jengo Fett, the original of the clones) and he was born in New Zealand. So not Latino, but a Maori. So all those people got upset for nothing!

You know what the most ironic thing is? I was born in Chattanooga, TN and grew up in north Georgia. I'm southern fried, baby.

Ya'll dig it.

I used to stage protests at the publishing house of "Archie" comics because Betty and Veronica wore tight sweaters and it made me jealous. Bugs Bunny is a commie-loving pinko, and Daffy Duck is a pervert!

Here is a banned Donald Duck
cartoon the was deemed (racialy sensitive)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH59VB22D8I

That is part of the reason why we love
them.

Oh yeah he did too. I actually did a Yahoo Answers search and there are people who actually thought Mel Gibson was Jewish

Funny isn't it? Black people can say what they like about us whites on national tv but if a white says something about a black person it causes an uproar.

I remember when a chalk board was always allowed to be called the black board.

and this is where the term "Brain-storming" comes in. Just before I finished school (approx 2 yrs ago) we always said brain storming but it changed to planning or something alike.
Apparently the term "Brain-storming" offended epileptics. Let me tell you I used to suffer from epilepsy and I didn't care abut that it was called Brain stormig.


Oopsie, going a bit off track there. Sorry

But TBH I agree that the real meaning of "Racist/racism" is long gone and it has a new meaning to it.

I have a buddy that's like 5th generation Asian American... I speak Japanese better than he does (and I'm some dorky northern european Heinz 57). I was riding in the car with him one afternoon and he pulled out in front of another car and damn near killed us. I was like "dude! What are you doing!?"... His comment? "Uh, you know [pointing to his eyes] poor perifreal vision" HAHAHA... of course I had to follow up with "Ho-ry cow, didn't you see his brinker?!" We totally cracked up.

Of course, this is the same guy that went as a Japanese tourist for Halloween... Tiva's with back socks, bad Hawaiian shirt and 12 cameras around his neck.

There is SO an element of truth in humor. If there wasn't, it wouldn't be funny.

Oh, also watch Fantasia sometime. During the second act with the centaurs, it's been edited and butchered so badly that the animiation no longer matches the music. Why?

The original had "pickaninny's" or a "sambo" like centuar creatures that served all the tall blonde caucasian centaurs. Disney has edited it so badly that it doesn't even match anymore.

And, I remember when Song of the South came out. I loved that movie. The music, animation and real life film mix was incredible. Aside from Fantasia and Pirates of the Caribbean, SOS was the ONLY other Disney flick I liked. I saw it as more cultural than racist... granted, I haven't seen it in over 20 years because it's not available.

The childrens book company "Golden" used to also put a Briar Rabbit and Briar Fox story book, and yes, the "tar baby" was in it. I wish I still had those books, they'd probably be worth something on E-bay today. hahaha

I loved Song of the South, too...I guess Gone With the Wind will be considered racist next.

But of course Jango Fett and his clones where not Latino they where Mandalorian.

Mandalorian isn't a race....

Look at the cartoon for Dick Tracy. That'll give ya a wake up call... they did have a mexican, and an asian... so what is fair? That was waay back in the day. Besides that, your forgetting about the green floating alien in the Flintstones.

That "super duper men" part made me laugh like a madman.

There used to be a site where it lists all the racist/ propagandic disney cartoons, but I can't seem to find it.

These shows werent racist just appealing to the majority audience. This audience of course was white kids....

Of course it probably doesn't really even bear mentioning, but cartoons like that one weren't produced for children. If I'm not mistaken, they were produced for adult military troops and shown on bases. This was the first time I'd seen that one.

Im getting tiered of people over using the word rascim i meen cant people take the little coinicidential crap in stride OMG a villains a black guy that steals from orphans the author must be inssinuating that allm black men steal from orphans and are evil hes a racist!

hahaha nice.

Even though its not something to take to seriously, it is a good point, well done X-KID. I've never noticed that, also with other old cartoons like flintstones & The Jetsons....

Yeah and Luke removing Vaders helmet in ROTJ at the end was a metaphor for how black people really wanted to be white....

People try and see racism in everything it's absolutly ridiculus, if anything whites have more racism directed at them now then any other race well except people in the middle east. I find it funny that comedians who aren't white can make fun of us all the time, yet when we do it and make fun of black people even in a joking way guys like Jesse Jackson will jump on us for it.

Personally I think racist jokes are hilarious. However malicious attacking based on race is wrong. It's funny that i can go to jail for calling a latino a spic or a korean a gook yet when they call me a cracker or vanilla face etc it's alright. You know i really don't think it's a serious problem cause racism doesn't bother me. What does bother me is that it's ok for every other race to make fun of whites and muslims, fair is fair it should go both ways.

Someone actually started a thread about this

I think you think too much.

Just because The Flinstones and The Jetsons had an all white cast doesn't make it racist.
Having the clones from Star Wars be played by a minority actor doesn't make it racist either.

Racism is discrimating and/or hating another race.

What some of you all are pointing out, is not racism, that is correct! But they're stereotypes. Minorities back then in the day never got to be shown as characters developing in a show or anything. Thats the difference. Secondly, some//most seem to be animals (the "diverse" characters some are pointing out).

Get a sense of humor or die. Wow so much for having a "free country" huh?



Because they suffered and are proud for what their ancestors have endured. For whites?... So you want to be proud of people who fought FOR slavery??? (I'm guessing this is what you mean by "controversial" ancestors). Theres nothing wrong to be proud of grandpa/grandma, just as long as you're not proud of their racism/ignorance.



You're so funny and immature. Why CANT you say those things? Well you certainly could. But you know you'd get some hell for it. Thats why you dont say it. You know its inappropriate. Otherwise you would say it wouldn't you? Now..why shouldn't you say these things? Well in this day and age, you really think racism against blacks and other minorities aren't still here? There is still oppressions and a HUGE gap in terms of wealth, health, and education (which are socio-economic reasons; but they're mostly minorities).



I'm using you as an example! xD Anyway, well this is kinda different isn't it people? This guy here, KNOWS this other Asian guy. Thats different from media portrayal ok?

It is all context! All the Polish and Italian jokes in the 1970s and those respective people telling them. Many Native Americans laugh at the WB cartoons that portray them as bignosed redguys getting their butts handed to them by Porky Pig at the calvary fort ( Injun Joe Super Chief). 'Custer of the West' which is still shown on the Encore channel portray bloodthirsty savages . They were not written by people who hated Natives. They just applied the sterotype of the day.
I often thought of the old colored woman on Tom and Jerry as a portrayal of my Auntie Helen Cuff. I never thought it was racist and my father who is 1/4 black use to love ' Song of the South' and it's conglamerated Ashanti/ Coastal Algonquian folktales about Bre Rabbit ( Nanabu in Nanticoke- brother Rabbit).
These PC smoes forget about context. Hating a race and portraying a stereotype of the time are two very different contexts.

Lapiche

That's true. Why is that?

I think you have far too much time on your hands. But, I'll bite.....

As far as the Flintstones, we don't know for sure what people back then really looked like as far as skin tone. I would think that probably everybody was dark skinned to some degree. I mean, early man was out in the sun and the elements an awful lot. They'd need to be dark for protection. So probably everybody looked fairly the same, barring individual physical features.

As far as the Jetsons, maybe that far into the future world love and peace has prevailed. Everybody mixes with everybody and has merged into one big global race.

(Gee, maybe I have far too much time on my hands today......... )

Your reading too far into this, I'd imagine this is the type of thing that can be done quite easily without even noticing, as one would most likely feel more inclined to draw members of their own race out of familiarity.

There was a episode of the Flintstones with a visit to Hawaii with more colorful people on the island. Also, the Jetsons living in their time had many different universal "peoples" that weren't necessarily white American humans...

They were green, lol...

His NAME was Kazoo! I guess that any body could call any show racist. If you look hard enough for it, you can be offended by nearly anything. (Why is there no White Entertainment Television?).

As for the old war cartoons, remember, we were at war with a peopel that were culturally different from us. It is only natural to dehumanize your enemy,. It makes it easier to kill them. And to be honest, most Americans at the time may wel have thought that they were pretty good representations of a people they only knew about through outdated school books and newspaper articles.

Very true. I could be offended that Barney is purple...but I'm not.

Well, I'm not impressed with any potential presidentical candidates right now --- but ColdEthyl has my vote if she runs!
Yep, love your "Get A Sense Of Humor Or Just Freakin' Die!" ticket!
Got my vote, babe.
Er ... um ... Ms. Ethyl ... sorry ... not PC to call you a babe ... though you are, heh.

Imagine President Coldethyl. All our coins and stamps would probably have Wonder Woman on them. At the inaugural ball, all the ladies would be decked out in Wonder Woman outfits. Women would be carrying golden lariats as a fashion and empowerment statement. And Air Force One? Forget it! Coldethyl would get around in Wonder Woman's invisible jet!