Posted on 07/09/2020 6:00:26 AM PDT by Stravinsky
As debate about representation in the animation industry rages, a new documentary show has arrived with perfect timing and a tartly ironic title. It’s called The History of White People in America.
Of course, the title doesn’t signal that the characters are exclusively white. The first episode explains how “whiteness” was first defined in the context of early American legislation for slavery, setting the tone: the series is an exploration of race relations in the nation, ranging from the colonies to Obama.
This long and painful narrative is told as a musical, the original score mixing song and spoken word. Each episode deftly packages testimonies and other archive materials into a bite-size vignette about America’s race history. The series is co-produced by Room 608 and Independent Television Service (ITVS), and is presented under PBS’s Independent Lens documentary banner.
(Excerpt) Read more at cartoonbrew.com ...
Get the children. Make sure they all know that just being white is a criminal offense.
They really do want a shooting war, don’t they?
That’s gonna be a hit.
The lefties hate white people, lots.
How can black people tell the history of white people?
If there is a shooting war besides the low-key one going on now, it will be mostly terrorist communists shooting erstwhile arm-chair generals and loudly proclaiming chest beaters, whose stores of arms will be taken in nationwide overnight raids.
I have been surprised that so many people are ignorant of how state and federal laws have been used to limit the economic progress of people of color generally, and black people more specifically. It’s as if the whole country chose to forget Jim Crow happened.
It's a shame when people don't know their history. Golly -- who knows if maybe we used to have a lot of statues about Jim Crow, but maybe people tore them all down and now no one remembers the history.
>>The lefties hate white people, lots.<<
The white lefties hate whites the most.
“If there is a shooting war besides the low-key one going on now, it will be mostly terrorist communists shooting erstwhile arm-chair generals and loudly proclaiming chest beaters, whose stores of arms will be taken in nationwide overnight raids.”
Wow, and I thought I was the top cynic here.
You enjoy that.
>>How can black people tell the history of white people?<<
Easy:
“He rassist.”
“She rassist.”
“Dey rassist.”
They are culturally appropriating animation. A white creation and development. Please stop.
Oh goodie - can we start running birth of a nation and song of the south again?
That way we can have white people talking about how black people showed up in America again.
This is racist socialist tripe is really pissing me off and PBS needs to be defunded immediately.
‘it will be mostly terrorist communists shooting erstwhile arm-chair generals and loudly proclaiming chest beaters, whose stores of arms will be taken in nationwide overnight raids.’
someone had to say it; you have guts, sir...
Welcome to the club - there are quite a few besides myself and some far more cynical when it comes to all these over-loud posters.
Thanks - its not guts, its common sense - people who are going to do, do not proclaim in advance, nor brag afterward - like the Three S Rule
Oh goody.
I thought Martin Mull did one years ago.
Funny how you can’t say anything negative about blacks but you can demonize the F*%& out of white people.
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