Likes and Dislikes
Likes and Dislikes I 'liked' an old music clip from the Dean Martin Show on YouTube last week. I used to enjoy watching Dean and his friends singing and dancing when I was a small boy, but I was too young to understand the comedy. Now that I'm an adult, I understand that it was racially insensitive. Jack Benny to Nipsey Russell in the barber shop: 'Oh, you're the owner?' And how about when Nipsey said of Jack Benny's tip, 'I'm tired of looking for those brown coins in this brown hand!'?? I didn't laugh. Then there was Nipsey Russell with Dean Martin at the modelling agency. Dean suggests Nipsey hide his identity for a nude photo by 'posing on a dark rug with his mouth and eyes closed.' Yikes! Even whites should be offended. We're all ultimately African, you know. Anyway, I doubt Russell was their author, poor guy. Looks like TV comedy still had a long way to go in 1972. Blame the racist WW2 generation for surviving int...