Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
343,405 views nov 23, 2015
See Amos ‘n’ Andy, the classic, hit radio and then tv comedy, which was run off the air by racists (video: season one, episode one), free, uncut, and without commercial interruptions, before the racists and kkers come for it again!
“stories mostly centered on The Kingfish’s schemes to get rich, often by duping his brothers in the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge. Andy was particularly dupable. Amos mostly narrated.”
The show was created by two White men, Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden, who performed it in black face on the radio from 1928 until its tv version premiered in 1951 with black performers Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, and Tim Moore.
This episode, which was listed on youtube as season 1, episode 1, was actually season 1, episode 4, “The Rare Coin.”
"@brendaallent8771
"3 years ago
“ FROM A STOLEN PEOPLE WITH NATURAL TALENT THEY BROUGHT US RELEIF THROUGH LAUGHTER WHICH IS YET WELL APPRECIATED THANK YOU YOU WERE THE BEST OF BEGINNINGS OF COMEDY LOVE THE MEMORIES YOU GIVE️”
N.S.: “FROM A STOLEN PEOPLE WITH NATURAL TALENT”
You mean, White people? The show was created and written entirely by White people, and for years was performed on radio by White people. It was only run off the air by the racists at the naacp once it was on tv and performed by blacks. So much for your racist lies.
4 comments:
Talk about getting into character--in blackface--on the radio.
That's integrity.
--GRA
My mom would never let me watch this program on TV as a little kid in the 1950s--I suppose because she didn't want me to pick up black dialect. Or perhaps she wanted to protect me from contact with black culture, however innocuously presented in the media.
Amos and Andy today would have gunshots within the first 2 minutes. The postman shot dead,the wife shot dead for sure. But the innocent 50's were different I hear.
And today,they'd be named Jacquarious and Jackoffious,
but the black yapping would be the same.
Reboot,Netflix?
--GRA
The show was still popular and being shown in reruns in the early 1960s (as was another supposedly "hated" series, the anti-Communist I LED 3 LIVES). In liberal NYC, no less.
The slander about the series being "offensive," parroted by such icons of virtue as Bill Cosby, is amazing considering that, aside from the lead characters, the show depicted blacks as respectable members of society from all walks of life- doctors, judges, businessmen, opera singers, etc. The few times they had stories about criminals, the crooks were always white guys!
It was classic comedy- the series is probably still available online somewhere. (CBS actually renewed the copyright and will NOT allow it on DVD or on TV!)
-RM
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