<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate
> > <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > In a message dated 5/25/06 10:10:19 P.M. Central Daylight
Time,
> > > > babajii_99@ writes:
> > > >
> > >
> > > > Look at what passes for entertainment- it's getting more
and
> > more
> > > > over the top..
> > > > I worry about the kids growing up in this pollution.
> > > > Their attitudes toward sex; their attitude toward humanity;
> > > > Their level of compassion.
> > > > We've seen the enemy and it is us.
> > >
> > > Look at the entertainment we had growing up. Lots of gratuitous
> > > violence in westerns and cop shows, and for the most part --
quite
> > > shallow scripts, overt racism
> >
> >
> >
> > "overt racism" on TV?
> >
> > Even in the '50s?
> >
> > Although I may have been born too late ('55) or they never
showed it
> > in reruns, I never remember seeing overt racism on TV.
> > r
> > Can you give us some examples?
>
> My wording was too sharp. Stereotyping is more what I had in mind,
> which might be cast as often unintnentional but implicit racism.
>
> And much gender stereo-typing in limited domains.
>
> But the line is fuzzier when one includes a lot of films from 30s
and
> 40s shown on TV in 50's and 60s. Stronger stereotyping in some
roles
> (dumb maids, no counter balancing roles, etc) may have been more
overt
> racism.
I've often found the opposite from that era. Yes, minorities would
play maids but they were far from dumb. Often they would be the
wise-cracking character who knew and expressed the truth about a
situation.
Kinda like the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz. Sure, he was after a
brain but if you'll notice, he's the one that comes up with all the
good ideas and insights throughout the movie.
>
> I was not referring to Amos and Andy -- which in my memory was a
> sweet, funny, human slice of life -- not racist or demeaning in my
> memory. But I have not looked at it again with "adult"
and "modern" eyes.
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > and gender bias on TV, AND 3 F**king B&W
> > > low res channels..
> > >
> > > Today, there is far more choice, a number of really well
written
> > and
> > > acted shows, with thought provoking themes. I'd much rather
have
> > kids
> > > navigating this environment than the TV wasteland of the 60's.
> > >
> >
>
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