The BBC won't show the Black & White Minstrel show...

what?

And it shows the biggest load of sh!te to ever hit the screen jonah from tonga.
With chris lilley blacked up.

If white people blacked their faces, they would be arrested for racism, and incitement to cause an affray!

bullsh1t aunty.  as flushgordon says, the Beeb screened Jonah (and S-mouse) two creations by Chris Lilley on BBC3 just a couple of years ago.  They were both funny as fk by the way.

No they were incredibly unfunny thats the problem,
It aint half hot mum was funnier than any chris lilley pile of sh!te but it wont be shown because there are white actors blacked up.
Bbc says its because lilleys progs are ironic.
Yes the irony is they are about as funny as finding a lump on one of your knackers

Sunbathing and tanning studios will be outlawed next.

no you've made a mistake flush.  Chris Lilley was well funny, especially Jonah Takalua.  It can be very subtle though and so will perhaps go over the heads of some.

It ain't half hot mom, on the other hand, was awful.  The worst of that lazy BBC sitcom mentality of old where they barely put any effort or originality into an idea because they know the public will laugh regardless.  I bet you like "Are you being served" as well?

Subtle? iTs a complete load of old bollix.
Of course i my agegroup grew up with mrs slocumbes ****.

When a group of white men can't black up, make their lips look big, put on curly wigs and jig around singing "swanee river" whilst shaking their hands you know we've lost the battle it as a nation.

People fought in two world wars etc..

Loved "Are you being served" a classic, similar to Father Ted and Keeping up Appearances.
The British are no longer funny as it happens.

The BBC are blatantly racist according to Peter Hitchens.
He says they have a policy of ensuring that one in seven actors or presenters appearing on their channels, should be black Asian or from an ethnic minority within three years.

They're giving people jobs based on the colour of their skins.

Isn't discrimination like that against the law?

in the interim they are going to ensure that at least one in seven actors or presenters a "blacked up"

It ain't half hot mum is an iconic British programme. if Muslims don't like it ,then tough, you think we like the grotesque looking Mosques polluting our
landscape.

I liked It ain't half hot mum

I have never what so offensive about blacking up myself
Although if it does offend, I understand us not doing it now

But people forget that in its time this was acceptable..so nobody was doing anything wrong
We keep trying to rewrite history

Will somebody explain how it offends?

good question taxi???????????????????
I still don't know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4TPuYbjnlI

can you dress like this these days

A jewish entertainer called Asa Yoelson, decided to 'black up' in 1904. He of course went on to make The Jazz Singer.

Now i wonder who would be more offended now?

wit-hams youtube clip

'the awful disclosures of Maria Monk'

Harry Monk and Mariah Monk are cockney rhyming slang for the same thing.

So BBC says no to The Black and White Minstrels

and yes to The League of Gentlemen, and quite right too.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E-7A5DiquI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2F4ZWTjwTU

I do not believe the BBC employ anybody just because they are black.  Presenters like Dotun Adebayo and Stephen K Amos are on the BBC because they are superb at their job, it has nothing to do with the colour of their skin.

The BBC employ several newscaster on the radio who do not speak fluent English.
You're not telling me they were selected for their speaking voices.
Which should be a must in a radio newscaster.

Neil Nunes, yes he is another one BBC World Service. I once heard a news bulletin where he talked of the arrest of Michael Phelps. To this day I am still unsure what a Murray Warner pipe is

Who was that athletics anchor, on ch4 i think.  was awful, well funny.

It is perfectly acceptable to show The Black and White Minstrels
as long as people are reminded, it is of its time

How on earth do we expect people from 50 years ago or more, to know what todays values were going to be
any more than we know what our values in the future may be

IT IS FECKIN IMPOSSIBLE

Also this show was made, it happened, we can't make it NOT happen
So it can be shown as part of our history, completely legitimately

By  not showing these programs we are suppressing or trying to rewrite history
This takes into the world of 1984, where people must only know what the government wants them to know

This is suppressing both truth and knowledge
I am totally against it, it will harm us

Ortiz Delay

Ortiz Delay

Ortis Delay even, I am as bad as him

Anyone else on June Sarpong at 66/1 to replace Paxman on Newsnight?

Anyone else on June Sarpong at 66/1 to replace Paxman on Newsnight?

In 1971 when I was eleven, I went on  a school trip to London, and one of the things on the itinery was a trip to see the black and white minstrel show at the windmill theatre

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In 1971 when I was eleven, I went on  a school trip to London, and one of the things on the itinery was a trip to see the black and white minstrel show at the windmill theatre

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There was a school in Devon on the news about 2 weeks ago. There are no black kids in it, so a trip was organised for loads of them to visit a school in east London.

I can just see the reactions on the return trip when a bus load of black east London kids arrive in a quiet village in Devon for the day.

Norman Colliers Al Jolson impression at 5:00

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQjmqfZX9CA

Until you fkrs  apologise for slavery we will have this problem.  Even though we were the prime movers in banning it.  So come on all you honkeys!!!

The only people who need to apologise for slavery are those who have owned a slave
One cannot apologise for somebody else

Even slavery would not have been considered wrong, at some times in our history
people live by the value of their times

Anyway I was regretting we cannot watch The Black and White Minstrels
not that we have not re introduced slavery

I understand how you feel moisok
some feel we have to apologise for just breathing air

incredibly trivial values we have nowadays

Maybe if they show it they have to refund part of the colour licence fee?

We were on about this today. Last week there were some white people in the stadium (nationality unknown) who had 'blacked' their faces and it was in the paper the next day and it was labeled racist. Last night there was those blacks with white painted faces and guess what, no mention whatsoever in the paper today

Aunty Post  • July 1, 2014 8:50 AM BST 


If white people blacked their faces, they would be arrested for racism, and incitement to cause an affray! This might be the case in the UK , but it isn't the case in Ireland where nearly half the st Patrick day parades featured a guiness float with white men dressed up as sapeurs (from the ad) with blackened faces.

I am appalled - I will not be able to sleep tonight with the all the guilt!!

The simple question you have to ask yourself is this:

If a Black man whites his face to imitate a White man would that be considered racist and would it offend White people , I think the answer to both is NO

So the fact that Black people find White men who black their face to imitate Black people says more about the insecurity of the Black race than it does the racism of the White race.

at the end of the day what is 'forgotten' or conveniently passed over in all this PC revisionist history boll*cks is that it takes 2 to tango
their own tribal chiefs sold their own guys 2 the honkeys
they didn't give 2 f*cks
& don't 2 this very day
look at the many uber rich african despots with nearly all their ppl scratching & starving
& i would defy anyone 2 deny the incontrovertible fact that those descendants of slaves are not far better off than their 'brothers' that remained in Africa

moisok  • July 1, 2014 11:34 PM BST
I am appalled - I will not be able to sleep tonight with the all the guilt!!

yuvutu, the nationality was not unknown.

They were German

We await the arrival of wesdag the troll, who will be seething.

Such a shame. Would be nice to see an Al Jolson film on TV but they're barred as well.

call me a taxi 01 Jul 14 18:08

I can just see the reactions on the return trip when a bus load of black east London kids arrive in a quiet village in Devon for the day.


In Ashburton they have a festival every year where the Morris dancers black up!  I think there's a few in the West Country do that.

Not seen it on the BBC.

With all the incredible technology today, could they not use a programme to re style their faces, or "ghost" them out?

No, what am I saying for Gawds sake? Just stick to the original plan!

Can't think of the B & W Minstrels without remembering my late wife's parents.

If they weren't sat there trilling away to that it was "Sing Something Simple" and my God was it ever?

We took the p!$$ out out of them as "Simple" kind of summed it up.

Defense always was "We like it don't we Esther".

The answer's quite simple really. Just play them in 'negative' mode! Loadsa white guys singing Swanee River.

At least we've got youtube. What a great programme this was. Proper songs, propler singers not like the X Factor ****.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTXS9hx1Wzc

Can't think of the B & W Minstrels without remembering my late wife's parents.

If they weren't sat there trilling away to that it was "Sing Something Simple" and my God was it ever?

We took the p!$$ out out of them as "Simple" kind of summed it up.

Defense always was "We like it don't we Esther".


lol Aunty, I bet they looked like Howard and Hilda from Ever Decreasing Circles.

My uncle Ernie blacks up his face every Saturday night and sings Al Jolson songs, in the local pub in Islington (North London)
And he always gos to he's firms fancy dress parties as a golliwog.but nobody says anything because his wife ( my auntie Repunzal) is black. And he works for Islington council !

NO BUT THEY WILL SHOW YOU CLOSE UPS OF WOMEN HAVING BABIES FROM THEIR PRIVATE PARTS

ITS ENOUGH TO PUT YOU OFF SEX FOR EVER

THEY SHOULDNT EVEN SHOW THEM KIND OF THINGS ON THE ADULT CHANNEL

ITS ENOUGH TO PUT YOU OFF YOUR JELLY AND CUSTARD

I DONT WANT TO SEE A BABY COME OUT OF SOMEONES TATOOED VAGINA

ESPECIALLY IN HIGH DEFINITION ,IM SURE I SAW ONE WOMANS TONSILLS IN THERE AS THEY DID A CLOSE UP

THEM WOMEN WHO LET THEM BE PHOTOGRAPHED ARE JUST ATTENTION SEEKERS,IF THEY LET ANYONE WITH A CAMERA LOOK AT THEIR PRIVATE PARTS ,I WOULDNT LIKE TO THINK WHAT THEY GET UP TO

MY MAMS NOT EVEN SEEN ME WITHOUT MY VEST ON

THEM WOMEN SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE TO SIT ON THE NAUGHTY STEP EVERY TIME THEY PUT THEIR LEGS IN THE AIR FROM A VERY EARLY AGE BY THEIR PARENTS

ITS BAD ENOUGH LETTING A FEW STRANGERS LOOK AT YOUR PRIVATE PARTS IN THE WOODS ,BUT LETTING MILLIONS SEE THEM ON T V IS ANOTHER MATTER

Do wah Diddy    24 Sep 14 13:25 
MY MAMS NOT EVEN SEEN ME WITHOUT MY VEST ON

Do Wah, you are an absolute scream!

2 stills from The Jazz Singer on BBC4 tonight.  In one he was blacked up.

I suppose the elephant in the room is that the slave trade was generally enabled by black Africans, cheerfully making a profit out of their vanquished tribal rivals.  And the Arabs were more than happy to help both sides.  Would most Afro-Americans/Brits be happier back in West Africa now?

In the 1650s, Anthony Johnson, an African man, won a court case that let him keep another African, John Casor, as his slave instead of ending his indentured servitude. 

This meant that the first legally recognized owner of a permanent slave in America, was an African man.