[Kate26824]

I agree with Tammy, her post pretty much sums it up. Black people, in the past, have been depicted as slow,, tap dancing, joke cracking bufoons. Watch the movie ‘Bamboozled’ by Spike Lee. At the end, there is a collection of movie/media/cartoon clips in which black people have been portrayed negatively. In some of these the people are eating watermelons with their eyes rolling to the back of their heads. It was common in the early film industry to portray us like this, like we were non human. Watermelons are just among the long list of stereotypical situations black people are subjected to. I advise you to rent the movie, it is very powerful. I was surprised to see that some of the racist clips come from early Looney Tunes and Disney cartoons.

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Name : Kate26824, Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, City : Jenks, State : OK, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, 

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