>>80037192Anon, you can approve of effort taken while criticizing content. For example, It's A Wonderful Life is my favorite Christmas movie, but the character of Annie--the family's black maid--is racist. She's portrayed in a positive light, trading barbs with the family and even donating her savings to help George Bailey get out of a bad situation at the end of the film. But she's still a maid, she's still patronized by all the white people around her in a "that's nice, honey" kind of way, and when she donates her money, she says
>I BEEN SAVIN' UP FOR A DEE-VORCE IF I EVER GET A HUSBAN'!and everyone cracks up. It's a funny line, delivered wonderfully! You can enjoy it, while also acknowledging she was portraying an exaggerated caricature of a longstanding figure, the Black Mammy, and that even with a positive portrayal it's still kinda racist.
"But he has a black friend!" is beside the point when de black friend am talkin' laik dis, massa. dat is fo' sho'. I feel the need to point out The Turner Diaries writes all black speech that way, as do classic minstrel shows, and you'd have to be a deluded person not to acknowledge the speech patterns and big lipped artwork are racist stereotypes.
