How come minstrel shows weren’t fun? I have books on the subject and they were quite entertaining. Distinctly un-pc today but they were very popular in their time. I doubt they’ll come back into fashion although a good friend of mine (an actor “of color”) had a show about it and did an amazing cake walk. This was in the 1980s when we weren’t so very sensitive.
They were demeaning; if you disagree, well we’ll have to agree to disagree.