That review of CFFM is interesting - he exonerates...

2015-01-07T10:40:01.375+00:00

That review of CFFM is interesting - he exonerates Lucas & co of racism on the grounds that they didn't (a) assert racial superiority or (b) discriminate against ethnic groups. But on that basis, the Black and White Minstrels weren't racist. Yes, we're so much more enlightened these days...

The programme in that series where they 'did' racism was dreadful, unsurprisingly - reaction shot after reaction shot of 20-somethings gasping "you can't say that!" The nadir was Derek Griffiths - a mixed-race performer who made it as a children's entertainer in the 1970s, no mean feat - getting liberally doused in shit for the sin of doing the 'eye thing' while singing the word 'chinkie'... in the song Melting Pot, which is about ending racism through interracial sex, beginning now. Talk about motes and beams.

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That review of CFFM is interesting - he exonerates...