Black-Face on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/black-face/ Recent content in Black-Face on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Fri, 23 Oct 2015 04:01:08 +0000 Two-for-One Racism https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2015/10/23/two-for-one-racism/ Fri, 23 Oct 2015 04:01:08 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2015/10/23/two-for-one-racism/ <p>I was watching <em>Gold Diggers of &lsquo;49</em> the other day with my daughter as we made our way through old cartoon shorts. That&rsquo;s how I grew up - on Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the other WB shorts along with the Disney shorts. Sometimes, late at night, they&rsquo;d show the black and white cartoons like this one, but I mostly found the black and white cartoons boring. They came from a time when animation was very experimental and new so people were impressed that these drawings could move around. There often isn&rsquo;t much in the way of plot and the jokes are usually broad gags carried over from vaudeville.</p>

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