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My parents had a lot of old music and art books like this. It's where (along with strong influences from Don Martin & Antonio Prohías - MAD) I learned cartoonin
by clsec 3y ago
My parents had a lot of old music and art books like this. It's where (along with strong influences from Don Martin & Antonio Prohías - MAD) I learned cartooning.
Also, from dmonitor:
>genuinely confused how the author/illustrator can include that sentence under their depiction of a black person. the lack of awareness is incredible.
It was 1937. I was born in the 60's and Song of the South regularly played on the Sunday night Disney show. Racism was blatent back in the day, but also considered normal.
- aebtebeten 3y ago> Racism was blatent back in the day, but also considered normal. Luckily the threat of communism* convinced the DoD to desegregate... * for pre-Korea, cf https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9981 https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order... ; then there's the infamous Việt Nam-era "No VietCong ever called me nigger" (which should itself be compared with "Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain’t going to fix them.")