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 >>> Minstrel Show would not have registered as racist or objectionable 
 >>> when it was broadcast every week. 
 >> 
 >> It merely registered to me as very boring. 
 >> 
 >> Racism is a mindset.€€ Why did they put on black face? To a young person, 
 >> as I was, maybe they thought we, the viewers, preferred black singers. 
 > 
 > It wasn't that. 
 > 
 > The tradition of performing in blackface (which in vaudeville was known 
 > as "minstrelcy") goes back to the nineteenth century at a minimum. 
 > 
 > Al Jolson is probably the name most associated with it, but he was 
 > following a tradition which was at least forty years old when he started 
 > in the early years of the last century. 
 > 
 > Not all those using black greasepaint and that particular way of 
 > applying it were white, by the way. 
  
 One wonders why Lenny Henry isn't cancelled as a result. 
  
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_and_White_Minstrel_Show 
  
 "contractually obliged", my a***e. 
  
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