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Thursday, July 02, 2020

NEARLY SIX DECADES LATER AND STILL APPALLINGLY RELEVANT


From the BBC's classic THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS (aka TW3) series: a British number from 1963, lampooning tropes of the weekly light entertainment series THE BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL SHOW (1958-1978) and commenting on the status quo of Mississippi at the time of the assassination of white Civil Rights marcher William Lewis Moore during a protest march. Basically "Springtime for Hitler" some four years before that classic of pointed offensiveness, this bit could absolutely NEVER be broadcast on TV (or damned near anywhere else) in 2020. Razor-sharp satire/political commentary played absolutely straight and ironically nostalgic. Seriously, do NOT play this at work, around kids, or anywhere near the easily-offended. 




 

 

1 comment:

Regan T said...

Hope she needed to run back to the green room and scream into a pillow for 20 minutes--that's the only way I would have made it through that number. Damn.