As a people it is our diversity that makes us strong. Did Fred just miss that concept?
2007-01-24 12:55:42 · 13 answers · asked by Cronus 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I (and my admittedly spotty memory) will have to take you at your word and say that that is a really interesting observation. Thinking further out in the HANNA-BARBERA (sp?) empire, I don't think you ever saw black people in their vision of the "future," THE JETSONS, either.
Since the human race began in Africa before spreading out, the idea that there were no black people in the Stone Age (put forth by some other posters) isn't reasonable, and blacks were certainly more integrated and accepted--and, at the very least, a fact of daily life in the 1960s--than ever before by the time both of these shows were on the air as prime-time hits, I can only assume it reflected a bias (conscious or otherwise--not everything is outright racism, of course) on behalf of the H-B team of animators.
This makes it a fun point of interest then when you remember that the sexpot villian side-kick character in the live-action movie version (the hit one, with Elizabeth Taylor and Rosie O'Donnell, not the hack job "prequel" with Joan Collins and Jane Krackowski that came a few years later), miss "Rosetta Stone" was played by ... Halle Berry (and this was before she was, gasp, HALLE BERRY!, who admittedly now transcends race with most audiences).
2007-01-24 13:15:49 · answer #1 · answered by B B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same with all old cavemen movies.
You would have to ask the person or persons who were involved in the making of the Flintstone cartoon show.
Good luck.
2007-01-24 14:20:39 · answer #2 · answered by X-Woman 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For starters, you are wrong: it is NOT our diversity that makes us strong. This country would be far better off if the illegial aliens would vamanos back to Mexico and of the blacks would ship out to Africa. Many of the problems facing our country would then be solved. As far as the Flinstones, the blacks were still monkeys swinging from trees in Africa during the Stone Age. Times were far better back in Bedrock than now. You can bet there was less crime and welfare too!
2007-01-24 13:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
When Barbera(May his soul rest in peace) created the Flinstones those so many years ago, tension between the races was probably bigger than today. Many tv shows don't feature different races, especially from that era. In a different sense, perhaps it just wasn't located in Africa, and long before any slaves were brought to America.
2007-01-24 13:01:27 · answer #4 · answered by Blake M 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Hanna Barberra people would have had to buy a whole new set of paints and in the early 60s there was no pressure to do so.
2007-01-24 13:10:50 · answer #5 · answered by Crabby Patty 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe Fred is a black person with an acid peel! Who's prejudice now a s s h o l e?
2007-01-24 13:43:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Nothing wrong with that. Bedrock was a closed community. Also there were no black people during the stone age.
2007-01-24 13:03:29 · answer #7 · answered by holeeycow 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That's not even true. I have seen a black person on the Flinstones. He had glasses on. You didn't research this question very well.
2007-01-24 13:12:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Maybe there were so few people back in the Sone Age that race was not yet an issue?
2007-01-24 12:59:35 · answer #9 · answered by Croa 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Oh give it up. Not everything needs to be diverse or politically correct. It's a cartoon. Get over it.
2007-01-24 13:04:30 · answer #10 · answered by ncaachamp 4 · 6⤊ 4⤋