Should the Black and White Minstrel show return?

Question

It was a entertainment show that ran for 28 years from 1950 to 1978 on the BBC. It had millions of followers. Do you think it is time for it to return to our screens so the youngsters of today can see good clean innocient entertainment - instead of the grubby filth that is on television nowadays?

Answer 1

I remember going to see them perform live at The London Palladium (that's just aged me). Those were the days of innocence when children owned golliwogs, Big Ears was Noddy's best friend and not a way of calling someone with large hearing organs, and if you were gay it just meant you were happy. There is so much that is politically incorrect now, and I guess the Black and White Minstrels have had their day. Shame though!

Answer 2

On a serious note, I loved the Jolson Story film, and it won the most Oscars in its hey-day. but the political system have stopped it showing on the TV. It was not a racist film,... but a true story of a Russian immigrant who became a minstrel and then became the first talking singing dancing Superstar in his long career. How ridiculous that the father of popular music is banned from the media because of the blacking up of his face in his act, ...which was the norm at the turn of the century. Political correctness,... gone barmy

Answer 3

Everything on television is grubby and filthy, it's the opiate of the masses, written by artless hacks and directed by morons. They should all be castrated and imprisoned for poisoning the well-spring of our popular culture with their presumptuous attempts at entertainment conceived in their piddling intellects.

As far as political correctness however, that's a philosophical fraud invented by useless academics in order to punish people who they perceive as being as bigoted at they are. Nobody is as bigoted as academics in my experience; and racism, as far as I can tell, might as well be a myth. Why don't they invent a term for how much I hate Britney Spears? Maybe I should be demonized for being an anti-spearmite? Make it a hate crime not to buy her albums?

All minstrel shows should be black-and-white, or perhaps technicolor. And they ought to be popular. We will demand Congress (and Parliament, for you) make minstrel shows popular again. The People aren't smart enough to know what entertains them so we must pass laws.

Thank you for riding along on this train of utter insanity with me. And p*** off. :)

Answer 4

Yes but perhaps without the blacked up Faces to stop the PC brigade from going mental. But it would be good to have a decent Saturdays night entertainment show again. not just wannabees who have no talent and just want their 15 Min's of fame.

Answer 5

I agree with you, I have never let my children watch the TV because of the slime gun blasting, knife stabbing, murders, kidnapping, the list is endless. I would rather not have the old programmes like coronation street, cross road, there was never an eventful story line, Lets have something with a moral to the ending of live being good to all nations what ever colour, creed or nationality

Answer 6

The format was good and the songs too but painting people up to look like black people offends lots of people, Diana Ross was on the same bill once as the Black & White minstrels and she was deeply offended and almost refused to carry on.. i myself loved it as a kid, but times have changed !.

Answer 7

Can you imagine how it would be after a PC audit? I would rather (just about)remember the original show than what is likely to be a pathetic imitation butchered by the current BBC management.

Answer 8

YES YES it was a fabulous show just good old fashioned entertainment

Answer 9

You are so lucky to have grubby filth on your telly. In the USA, it's just boring boring boring. ;-)

Answer 10

LOL - when I first saw your question, I thought it said, "Should the Black and White Minstrel show rectum?"