[Livia]

Originally Posted by SherzyK

You have to consider the stereotypes that surround these shows if we’re talking about minstrelsy. They were portrayed as lazy, buffoonish, lasvicious, superstitious and if you look at some of the more contemporary blackface, it just assumes that they all have big red lips and dreads. I honestly don’t see the comedy in it

They were? The Black and White Minstrels? Are you talking about the 19th Century? Because I was referring to the Minstrels that were part of show business until, what... the 1960s? 70s?

In any case, you cannot claim to be shocked at stuff that is no longer a part of society. To quote LP Hartley's, The Go-Between "The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.".