Amos ‘n Andy was a hilarious program that made black actors its stars when blacks were simply not on television. For the first time, we saw black judges, black doctors, black experts going about their jobs.
In the television version, Andy was a cab driver who appeared very seldom. He was a dedicated family man and had touching scenes with his son. He would introduce the program sometimes.
They needed stooges to lead in a comedy show, so they used dumb old fat Amos and Kingfish, who reminded me of Oliver Hardy to Amos’s fat Laurel. In addition to the intelligent, well-spoken judges and lawyers in trial scenes, they had one dumb lawyer, Calhoun, as a standard comedy character.
In other words, Amos ‘n Andy had three totally comic characters. The NAACP went ballistic. Dumb characters on a comedy show! Good Lord, obviously Hitler was the producer!
In one of its greatest victories, the NAACP got this wildly popular show cancelled.
Amos ‘n Andy was obviously racist, because no comedy would show WHITE people like the Three Stooges or Laurel and Hardy looking DUMB!
We had some black kids who would come and watch our TV, since it was about the only one in Pontiac, South Carolina. They actually cried when Amos ‘n Andy went off.
Then, many years later, another all-black comedy hit the number one slot and stayed there. That was the Cosby Show. Cosby was a doctor and a dedicated family man. His wife was a judge. His children were intelligent and caring. The NAACP went ballistic.
The Cosbys were not BLACK enough! They did not present a realistic picture of the lot of the urban poor in the ghettoes.
Worst of all, Bill Cosby was the opposite of what a black man is supposed to be in a Politically Correct society. Black people are supposed to have a chip on their shoulders the size of the Brooklyn Bridge. They are supposed to dedicate their lives to a curled lip and Righteous Resentment, reminding white people every minute to beware of saying a wrong word, reminding white people of Centuries of Oppression.
Cosby took life as it came. On the show he was an MD, in real life he is a PhD. He knows things are wrong. He lives with that, and he does it well.
That is NOT the function of a guy running around in a black skin.
Look, liberals love black people. All they ask is that black people stay in their place.
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