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Oh It Is to LAUGH!

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 @ 6:35 pm | Racism, What Were They Thinking

Blackface humor. Blegh.

I don’t know what’s worse: that it exists, or that I’m miffed I don’t get the punch line.

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  • Apparently shoe dressing is a kind of shoe polish, and "Snowball" would probably indicate that it's white.

    Honestly, it's the funniest of the three jokes.
  • Dr. Novakaine
    Some people love what they call the "good old days." I say good riddance, and this is one of the reasons why.
  • Dierna
    This is oddly a long running comic. It ran from 1917 - 1949.

    The joke is that the writer of the comic, Gene Byrnes, is a former shoemaker before he got into comics (oddly after breaking his leg while in a wrestling match....uh..). Hense the shoe dressing thing.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Byrnes
  • madwoman
    I like how they call the white guy "Pinhead".
  • AuroraMoon
    I noticed that all of the hands are white... so that means the rest of the guys' face are covered in shoe polish, and really are white guys underneath.
  • yes "blackface" was a sort of comedy whereby whites would paint their faces black and acting as the stereotypical happy but lazy, carefree blacks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface

    Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" tackles this.
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