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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  1. Matt Algren Says:

    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.

  2. Dr. Novakaine Says:

    Some people love what they call the “good old days.” I say good riddance, and this is one of the reasons why.

  3. Dierna Says:

    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

  4. madwoman Says:

    I like how they call the white guy “Pinhead”.

  5. AuroraMoon Says:

    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.

  6. sezaar Says:

    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.

  7. madwoman Says:

    I like how they call the white guy “Pinhead”.rn

  8. Anonymous Says:

    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.

  9. sezaar Says:

    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.

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