Wow Kate -- never saw this one -- thanks...! Racist? Naw...

Poignant, bizarre, and the Myna bird at the end, again already. Fascinating. I wonder if there's some reason the Myna bird keeps showing up in works of that time? I've seen it in other cases in my wanderings.

But if you were to interview the artists responsible, I'm sure they'd tell you its an ANTI-racist cartoon because the mean old slaver goes over the falls and little eva and her family are saved.

KATE,

Do you know in what year this 'toon was made?

Well this one was made by blacks so I guess it can't be racist. And it wasn't made 50 years ago either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mdKj6wcaDY

It's from the 1930's.

Kate: What is the point you're trying to make here? Why are you posting these racist cartoons in the first place?

Ancient Athens, the seminal confluence of previous Persian, Egyptian, and other results, in terms of spawning the seed of what has since then evolved into modern democracy, had slaves, Bob. Are you saying we should not study the works of ancient Athenians?

The founding fathers of the United States of America, the template for the modern version of egalitarian democracy, all men created equal and so forth, had slaves, Bob (or at least some of them did). Are you saying we should not study the Federalist Papers?

The legacy of the audio/video cartoon art genre, which is now about 90 years old (or more, depending on how you define it), has included works that by some people's standards are apparently so racist that we must not be allowed to study them.

And yet, and yet, so many of these cartoons, like this one and all the others Kate has posted in the Frankly My Dear category, as you will see if you research my and others comments in each case, carry classic moral arguments, in which the good guys invariably win, in a sense that both you and I, Bob, would agree to, I think.

So, Bob, should we not be allowed to study them?

Vitruvius: "So, Bob, should we not be allowed to study them?"

No; the left follows the bible of George Orwell's 1984. History must be rewritten. Language must be changed. A Fisherman is now called by the name of a fur bearing animal because the noun "man" is so reviled by the arch-left feminist. The English language is un-progressive in using the said noun in the neutral gender. Newspeak, doublespeak, what ever the name, our culture that has brought us the end of plagues and famine must die. We must pretend there was never a slave culture and that colonization never brought 100 years of progress to whole continents.

Kate: What is the point you're trying to make here? Why are you posting these racist cartoons in the first place?

She wants her apples polished.
Poignant? Fascinating? Sheesh.