today. but historians point out the shows didn t just mimic, they degraded depicting black people as ignorant, lazy or abusive. and as entertainment evolved, blackface moved from the stage to the big screen. think al joelson sipping ma amy songs in the late 1920s or eddy cantor and george jessel 1930s. for 30 plus years on radio amos and andy two white actors portrayed black men living in harlem. pep so he dent and campbell soup had no reservation about sponsoring the program for many years. many who admit to wearing blackface say it was a tribute to a black hero or idol. historians argue whether it s out of reverence or ridicule does not matter because both show prejudice. the reverend al sharpton said it this way. watch. there will be some that try and act like blackface is some cultural thing that
meara. i bet you get a lot of wrong number calls. yes, you. you sound like the kind of girl a lot of guys would call by mistake. there was tim reed, did a white man, black man act. you pretend you re another black man. walk up to me and start a conversation. hey, baby. oh, look here, leroy. what do you think this is? amos and andy? in the 60s, comedy itself changed. there s a war going on, society was changing. and comedy teams reflected that. you may have noticed that now and then we kind of poke fun a little fun at the people in washington. washington? washington. actually, we mean every word of it. are you a christian author with
i ll be asking you to make me governor of this here state of florida. my esteemed opponent who done called me monkey is doing a lot of hollering about how expensive my plans for health care be, but he be thinking of the white man s medicine, which is very expensive, because it uses science and whatnot. i mean, it s almost from a different era, like from the 1920s or something. well, the music in the background is literally from amos and andy . i pulled a clip from it. what was interesting, you know, the conversations being ahead about stacey abrams, this is a little different than this with andrew gillum and this organization in idaho has historically put up these types of robo calls against black candidates in other states as well. this is their schtick. but in some ways, the tactics are similar. the hope here is not to sway some type of moderate voter who was going one way or the other. this is the idea that if this is a base vote, stacey abrams or andrew gillum, their coalition
there was tim reed, did a white man, black man act. you pretend you re another black man. walk up to me and start a conversation. hey, baby. oh, look here, leroy. what do you think this is? amos and andy? in the 60s, comedy itself changed. there s a war going on, society was changing. and comedy teams reflected that. you may have noticed that now and then we kind of poke fun a little fun at the people in washington. washington? washington. actually, we mean every word of it.
you sound like the kind of girl a lot of guys would call by mistake. there was tim reed, did a white man, black man act. you pretend you re another black man. walk up to me and start a conversation. hey, baby. oh, look here, leroy. what do you think this is? amos and andy? in the 60s, comedy itself changed. there s a war going on, society was changing. and comedy teams reflected that. you may have noticed that now and then we kind of poke fun a little fun at the people in washington. washington? washington. actually, we mean every word of it. [ music: bygones by oliver ]