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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. ....

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