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Performer: i just wanna come up here and dedicate the skyride, the amos n andy skyride. tim reid: the original pilot for the show were done in blackface. and a sponsor said, i don t know if this is going to go over well. so they cast it with some very funny black comedians. andy: what do you think, lightning? lightning: this sure is a thin house. tim reid: it was at times hysterically funny. but the stereotypes, left a negative taste in a lot of our mouths bambi haggins: the central characters are all just different iterations of minstrel archetypes from minstrel shows where white men were putting on blackface. it s embracing this dehumanizing tradition of representation. bambi haggins: the naacp came out against amos and andy and it went off television. ....
That would calm the racial tensions in america. sara k. eskridge: julia is about a single mom who is a nurse. she s got a young child. her husband died in vietnam. mr. colton: frankly, you re not exactly what i expected. julia: no. julia: did you expect me to be older or younger. bambi haggins: julia was the first starring role for a black woman who was not a domestic. julia: that will teach you, partna! jacqueline coley: but they avoided showing her as a black woman as much as possible to make it more palatable for white audiences. bambi haggins: diahann carroll described julia as a white negro with very little negro-ness julia: don t worry about it, there will be another monday next week copage: at the beginning, there were certain ah, stations that wouldn t even carry it, especially in the south. ....
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