>
>
> In a message dated 5/26/06 10:53:10 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> 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.
>
> Can you give us some examples?
>
>
>
>
> I do remember watching Amos and Andy as a child and loved it.
Supposedly the
> NAACP some how or another got it taken off the air. However Sanford
and Son
> wasn't any better, maybe even more stereotypical, yet is considered
classic
> black comedy. As for the Westerns and Cop shows of the fifties,
they dealt
> with themes of morality teaching the bad guy is a loser and the
good guy is the
> winner. Today you'll often find that crime pays as a theme. As for the
> gratuitous violence, there is just as much today and it was not
near as graphic as
> it is portrayed today.
>
+++ Amos and Andy weren't black which maybe later turned into a problem.
On the same note, I wonder if the NAACP will get changed from
"colored people" to "African Americans" N.
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