I was shocked to find out by way of earlier research, as well as by recent observation of the film, about the number of African Americans who participated in the "Black Face Era" along with whites. In his only known essay, "The Comic Side of Trouble," Bert Williams wrote, "I have never been

The presentation of slavery in a different form is what was destroying our people then and is part of the cavity of our generation now. We, especially young people, somewhere along the line were told to accept things the way they are. The very same products that once dishonored us, we deem to be OK. For example Aunt Jemame pancake syrup; although the face on the bottle has been changed to one of beauty, the principle is still there. I can remember as a child watching the Warner Brothers cartoons with bugs bunny where they show these savage people with bones in there noses, living like animals when it was the white man who descended from the cave. Never then did I stop to think that behind the laughter these savage people had skin and hair like my own. The image of the black mammy, big, black and fat, also comes to mind in my childhood from watching these same cartoons. These are the visions being given to our people even in our generation hundreds of years after slavery. All of the themes in the film such as Black is Ugly, Blacks are Savage and that Blacks are Happy Servants are being fed to our peo

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