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.
A Look at Some Odd Moments in Some Old Comics
October 20th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
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.
October 20th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Some people love what they call the “good old days.” I say good riddance, and this is one of the reasons why.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
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
October 21st, 2009 at 5:21 am
I like how they call the white guy “Pinhead”.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:16 am
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.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:09 am
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.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I like how they call the white guy “Pinhead”.rn
October 21st, 2009 at 1:16 pm
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.
October 21st, 2009 at 2:09 pm
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/BlackfacernrnSpike Lee’s “Bamboozled” tackles this.