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Lot of American entertainment is based on the suffering of black people and it’s been that way since slavery and that is a cold hard fact
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Anonymous 21w

zombies are haitian (first recorded in central and south africa) in origin and are resurrected as slave laborers by a sorcerer. the flesh eating was added by hollywood

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Anonymous 21w

No it really is, it kinda blew me away the first time I really looked into it. Every single monster movie trope comes to mind immediately 😭

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Anonymous 21w

True thats what made the wire so entertaining

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Anonymous 21w
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Anonymous replying to -> #1 21w

Laugh all you like triple chin but it’s the truth

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 21w

and snowfall

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 21w

and breaking bad

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Anonymous replying to -> shrimp_fried_rice 21w

Yeah but also during slavery black children would be used as bait for hunting, minstrel shows were used to dehumanize black people more and characters like Mickey Mouse are designed after those minstrel show characters. Rap music depicts black trauma and is commercialized. Sports like UFC and football are quite literally similar to slave prizefights

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 21w

Modern zombies have a bunch of basis in vampires as well. The living dead who feast upon the living. They used to be brainless as well in certain stories

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 21w

The Mickey Mouse thing is kinda true but also limits of viewing. If you make his hands the same color as his fur it’s hard to differentiate between the two so you just give him gloves and you can see his movements

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Anonymous replying to -> evil_sheep 21w

The character that ACTUALLY comes to mind as a racist caricature is Goofy. One of his creators described him as a “good natured colored fellow” iirc. Not to say Mickey isn’t, but they were pretty overt w Goofy

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Anonymous replying to -> shrimp_fried_rice 21w

In that exact same quote he also describes Goofy as a hick so it seems more like they were trying to widen the appeal to more groups with that statement than make Goofy as some racist caricature

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 21w

Walt Disney was a sexist and racist. Mickey’s Mellerdrammer and the song steamboat Mickey is whistling is a racist song.

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