Was looking some stuff up on wikipedia, and was intrigued by the "Today's Featured Article" - "Our Gang" (aka, The Little Rascals).
Anycrap, found links in that entry to the following entries...
Stepin Fetchit
pickaninny
OK never heard of the first one, and sorta heard of the second one. Either way, interesting reading for a blue-state raised conservative oriental engineer like myself. Found another link in the Pickaninny article...
The Picaninny Caricature
Getting further and further away from my engineering comfort-zone. But here's an excerpt I deemed SHoP-worthy. Normally not anything to write home about, considering that I've been 3am Criticizing "The Beauty and the Geek" (featuring hot blonde texan Lauren, the lingerie model), but if it's an intelligent political or social post, then yes, should be noteworthy...
Stifle that laugh, dear SHoPper. Gotta tie in one more excerpt. So the logic should follow that the "dialect" referred to in the above excerpt is practically identical to the infamous "ebonics" of today... press on, faithful SHoPper...
excerpt from The Picaninny Caricature This is true, however, the Black characters were often buffoons in racially stereotypical ways. They spoke in dialect -- dis, dat, I is, you is, and we is. Farina, arguably the most famous picaninny of the 1920s, was on more than one occasion shown savagely eating watermelon or chicken. He was also terrified of ghosts -- this fear was a persistent theme for adult coons in later comedy films.
I'd like to think that most of you SHoPpers have already made the leap, but for the stragglers:
and another excerpt from The Picaninny Caricature Was Bannerman's Little Black Sambo racist? The major characters: Little Black Sambo, his mother (Black Mumbo) and his father (Black Jumbo) used standard English, not the bastardized English then associated with Blacks. (Emphasis mine)
Oh. So what the author of the article is trying to say is that this "bastardized English" is no longer associated with black children in this day and age? WTF. Has this psuedo-intelligentsia elitist even spoken to a black person recently?
Doo dee doo, jimmy you're a sick, racist soulless piece of shit, la la la.
Get bent, it's the truth. If immigrants from the Philippines and India can speak better english than some native-born Americans, this should be red flags shooting straight up in the air amongst your ethnic brethren and also for the public school system here at home.
And yeah, i'm somewhat exploiting my oriental
Jihad Jimmy
Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith, Deputy Undersecretary of the SHoP Department of Race Relations, Director of Minority Recruitment of Tio Jaime University
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