>>150300861
In some ways I agree
I feel it's a mix of things, both the way it's sort of demeaning to the audience, like they wouldn't be able to tell a black guy with huge red lips and a bone through his nose is offensive without some white executive pointing it out to him
Personally I also feel sometimes it and other attempts at "addressing" these things ends up being disrespectful to the hard work of the actual black crew members behind them
It's one thing when it's Mel Blanc doing a Stephin Fetchit voice (who himself could apply as well), I personally feel it's another thing entirely when it's an actual black actress like Lillian Randolph, Eddie Anderson or the cast of Amos n' Andy
It's unfair to minimize their careers just because their roles are "problematic" or suggest they were in the same league as "Birth of a Nation" or something, they worked just as hard as white actors, if not harder because of the limitations placed on them, and had to deal with discrimination both from white racists and groups like the NAACP who claimed to be looking out for them
Picrel, article from 1961 about the cast of Amos n' Andy, all but shut out of the industry without residuals because the NAACP got the series cancelled before it reached a certain number of episodes