A History of Black Stereotypes Onscreen

What I find particularly interesting (and you seem to be oblivious to it) is that in every single example you cite of black people being stereotyped in films, every WHITE character is likewise a stereotype, and often an unflattering one.
Who was "Scarlett O'Hara", but a conniving, selfish, superficial and vain white woman?!
Who did Shirley Temple ever play but a 2-dimensional, saccharine-sweet little white girl?!
In every film you mention, there were the stock white buffoons, the stock white thugs, the stock white petty tyrants, etc.
It's almost as if Hollywood traded in stereotypes.

I would call this annalist a stretch in some areas.

Not too many ads

Hope there is a second episode and covers tv shows

Animalistic, over sexualized, too happy, too aggressive, angry... what can black people be? Overanalyzing parts of our personalities is so annoying

And in 2024 we have all these young people feeding into these stereotypes almost all of them it’s actually insane to me and I literally hate those stereotypes sm especially being over sexualized sm and I hate black people that obviously feed into any of these stereotypes bc there are many people in our society that completely embody these stereotypes.

Always hated that they would usually depict black folks as aggressive, thugs, gangsters, or as a dysfunctional family.

😢😢❤ this hurts me because it’s so true and we yes we (Afro Latino) has been stereotyped by these negative construct of my brother and sisters in films even till this day,an subconsciously some of us without though start acting (figuratively) as those characters that stereotype us in that way but in real life in our neighborhoods. One way this can change is for me and my own people have our own production film 🎥 company and make films that portray our people in an positive/intelligent/charismatic characters to change everyone’s train of thought of negativity into positivity about our ethnicity🌈👍🌹🇺🇸

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Lol your a joke.. 😂😂😂😂 u don't understand a thing..

Black people stereotype themselves...

Every stereotype has been proven again and again

King Kong is racist? I have NEVER related King Kong to black people..thats some BLM BS. Apparently it doesn't matter what a black person does in a movie..it's geared to belittle black people. And what EXACTLY did Michelle Obama accomplish? her HUSBAND got elected..she was just along for the ride.

Not black myself, but I gotta say, colorism is still a thing these days and it has to be eliminated. If not eliminated, it'll be rarely used

I remember seeing "Song of the South, tar babies and briarpatch" at the theater during a double feature. Even though I was under 8 years old, the word "tar babies" made me feel the ick.

Who snuck in the lgbtq at the end? Dang colonizer.

But what if yal also talked about generational wealth and land giving to poor white families when the us was first established and promised to black families too… reparations 😮😢

What’s worst is the black community uses theses stereotypes to make cash and receive fame instead of leaving it in the past

Im glad I know these now, Im writing a black woman and I she doesnt falls in any of these stereotypes.

Amazing Positive Black Characters That Entertainment Companies Should Definitely Show:
-The Ambitious Medical Doctor
-The Caring Father
-The Clever Scientist
-The Compassionate Cop
-The Courageous Firefighter
-The Determined Adventurer
-The Educated Teacher
-The Fun Talented Musician
-The Ladylike Woman
-The Martial Artist Instructor
-The Protective Friend
-The Respectful Gentleman
-The Successful Entrepreneur
-The Tender Mother
-The Tough Warrior Leader

Annoying Negative Stereotypical Black Characters That Entertainment Companies Should Seriously Stop Showing:
-The African Black Male Warlord
-The Angry Hotheaded Black Man
-The Angry Sapphire Black Woman
-The Animalistic Brute
-The Anti Police Killer
-The Arrogant Athlete
-The Black Male Rapist That Targets White Females
-The Childish Immature Black Person
-The Civil Rights Activist
-The Criminal
-The Dirty Lying Thief
-The Dramatic Christian Black Male Preacher
-The Drug Dealer
-The Embarrassing Idiot
-The Falsely Accused Black Person
-The First Black Person Killed In Horror Movies
-The Helpless Victim Of Racism
-The Hip Hop Rapper
-The Hypersexual Black Female Jezebel
-The Lazy Drunkard
-The Lost Black African Immigrant
-The Macho Gangster Thug
-The Magical Negro
-The Mammy
-The Mandingo
-The Prisoner
-The Rude Ghetto Trash Talker
-The Runaway Selfish Father
-The Sambo
-The Savage Cannibal
-The Sharecropper
-The Single Mother
-The Slave
-The Submissive Servant
-The Token Black Friend
-The Uncle Tom
-The Welfare Queen
-The Whiny Race Baiter Who Complains About White People

hilarious

Many of these examples are actually archetypes, not stereotypes. Not every negative aspect of black culture can be blamed on white people. Ironically the number one stereotype of black people is that black people blame all their problems on white people to avoid personal accountability.

Not cinemas racists history. Whyte peoples racists history

WhOO! Praise the Lawd that we now have AAVE and rap music to paint a different picture of us, right? And let us not forget how Okra Thinfree has been the dog of everyone white to destroy the AA community while getting paid well to do it.

This is hard for me I'm like 10 different races so I don't have a culture can't we just all get along we are all red white and blue colored

I wish I could sue someone for this...like the longevity of the actions that cinema/the media and govt created since its inception.

All of that could change if the black community as a whole would stop living in those stereotypes…..many have proven the stereotypes wrong but it never seems to be enough

These kinds of depictions should be illegal. This is beyond the First Amendment rights. This is dangerously. 😊

Also literally NO mention of Blazing Saddles??? REALLY??? NOT EVEN ONE????

King Louie was originally considered to be voiced by Louis Armstrong, but Disney realised casting a black performer as an ape would be a bad look. As a result, they instead cast an Italian Swing artist and his band from las Vegas, specifically to avoid coming across as racist. The concept of the apes singing to Swing music is a dad-joke level pun on "Swing". Because monkeys. They swing. Like on vines. That's the joke.

Also the crows in Dumbo apart from the genuinely problematic main crow, are all voiced by local black performers. Not only that, they are the only sympathetic and intelligent characters in the entire movie apart from Dumbo and Jeremy the Mouse.

Some details worth including whether you still want to make the racism argument or not. It's disingenious to ignore certain facts because they may or may not belittle your point. It's important to give full context when discussing history regardless of topic, because to ignore certain context and bolster others is the number one mark of a poor historian.

I have 0 problem with the rest of the video, however.

I want to say that Bill Bojangles Robinson was one of greatest tap dancers in film history. He had to sacrifice his dignity to show off his art

Good for you The Take. One gets tired of how pretty white are marginalized

now do asian one pls

You should make a video about the racism of the Democratic party.

I’m curious what are some of the positive in history on-screen.

When you give Oscars based on a race instead of just the best performance you ruin it by giving it to someone just because they are black instead of just the best person and it should be the best person and performance

Oh, now I get it, either you are black or white. How about the rest of us who are not white or black? I know, Asians and American are white and blacks are africans. I am Mexican, not white, not black. It seems to me that, racist is in the heart of those who like to called themselves "segregated".

Black women in the comments crying like they went through what black men went through 🤣

Solution: Make every Black character a villain and everyone of them hates the human race that they are this close to be a world ending threat, not just to whites but everyone else on this planet

We have a ways to go--but wow, what a time to be alive.

This shit crazy who running this too make it like this

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If you are going to so clearly define a race for the reprehensible Black Face Genre, do your homework before blaming the "White Race". Every major movie production company and live theatre regarding Black Face was Jewish-owned as were almost every single actor from Al Jolson, who first started it in America, to Judy Garland. It was Jewish method acting created in Europe.

All of those movie film clips you showed were produced by Jewish producers including David O. Selznick of Gone With the Wind. In fact, all major movie production companies - MGM, Paramount, Fox, Warners, and RKO were Jewish owned with the exception of Disney, at the time. The same can be said of all the sitcoms you highlighted.

And regarding Disney's 'Song of the South', though clearly outdated, the lead character was a free man telling a compilation of African American folk tales gratefully written down in the late nineteenth century. Is it out of place today? Yes. But James Baskett who played Uncle Remus, was a brilliant an well-respected man socially and was deservedly proud of his work.

Jews do not consider themselves white and very publicly state so. It is irresponsible to blame the White race who sacrificed over half a million 'white men' who died over the battle to free American slaves. I'd also take a good look at who is producing the music pumped into the black community. It ain't whitey.