wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate
> <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 5/25/06 10:10:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> > > babajii_99@ writes:
> > >
> >
> > > Look at what passes for entertainment- it's getting more and
> more
> > > over the top..
> > > I worry about the kids growing up in this pollution.
> > > Their attitudes toward sex; their attitude toward humanity;
> > > Their level of compassion.
> > > We've seen the enemy and it is us.
> >
> > Look at the entertainment we had growing up. Lots of gratuitous
> > violence in westerns and cop shows, and for the most part -- quite
> > shallow scripts, overt racism
>
>
>
> "overt racism" on TV?
>
> Even in the '50s?
>
> Although I may have been born too late ('55) or they never showed it
> in reruns, I never remember seeing overt racism on TV.
> r
> Can you give us some examples?
My wording was too sharp. Stereotyping is more what I had in mind,
which might be cast as often unintnentional but implicit racism.
And much gender stereo-typing in limited domains.
But the line is fuzzier when one includes a lot of films from 30s and
40s shown on TV in 50's and 60s. Stronger stereotyping in some roles
(dumb maids, no counter balancing roles, etc) may have been more overt
racism.
I was not referring to Amos and Andy -- which in my memory was a
sweet, funny, human slice of life -- not racist or demeaning in my
memory. But I have not looked at it again with "adult" and "modern" eyes.
>
>
>
>
> > and gender bias on TV, AND 3 F**king B&W
> > low res channels..
> >
> > Today, there is far more choice, a number of really well written
> and
> > acted shows, with thought provoking themes. I'd much rather have
> kids
> > navigating this environment than the TV wasteland of the 60's.
> >
>
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