tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post8098288876792273526..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Stereotypes in Tarzan of the ApesRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-57226417952197130672010-07-28T23:50:34.019-07:002010-07-28T23:50:34.019-07:00For more on the subject, see Mark Twain, Indian Ha...For more on the subject, see <a href="http://www.bluecorncomics.com/twain.htm" rel="nofollow">Mark Twain, Indian Hater</a> and <a href="http://www.bluecorncomics.com/huckfinn.htm" rel="nofollow">Is <i>Huck Finn</i> Racist?</a>Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-80032964939566046622010-07-21T03:19:24.062-07:002010-07-21T03:19:24.062-07:00There are indeed arguments worth considering that ...There are indeed <a href="http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2010/02/scholar-and-twain-were-racist.htm" rel="nofollow">arguments</a> worth considering that Mark Twain was racist.<br /><br />The specific views of L. Frank Baum as expressed in his fiction and non-fiction writing have been discussed at great depth previously at Newspaper Rock.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-31983395654229824082010-07-20T11:35:12.497-07:002010-07-20T11:35:12.497-07:00And you stand corrected Chief Anonymous, READ VERY...And you stand corrected Chief Anonymous, READ VERY SLOW AND CAREFULLY:<br /><br />"Writers like Mark Twain AKA Samuel Clemens and L Frank Baum blatantly utilized racial slurs in novels and political leanings,"<br /><br />I refer to racial slurs with Twain, and then I refer to Baum with political leanings. <br /><br />If I had utilized the word "BOTH" at the beginning of the statement or after Baums' name, you would be correct, sorry to confuse you!<br /><br />Your "excused!"Chief Anti-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-81557084115338082442010-07-19T20:46:43.383-07:002010-07-19T20:46:43.383-07:00Excuse me "Chief" but Mark Twain was by ...Excuse me "Chief" but Mark Twain was by no means a racist, he did use slurs in his works but it was done to mock the ways of southern racism, as for the est of what you I have no comment at this time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-79654250698557274212010-07-19T13:31:29.934-07:002010-07-19T13:31:29.934-07:00If you have seen the 1933 FULL unedited version of...If you have seen the 1933 FULL unedited version of the original KING KONG film, there are scenes where Kong eats, rampages the village and repeatedly steps on an African native and even fondles Fay Wray, something I don't quite remember seeing over the years during my young "Kong" years.<br /><br />For some reason, the edited versions we all have grown to know and love show no such scenes, but I caught this version last night on TMC (Turner Movie Classics).<br /><br />The worst Kong film, in my opinion was the 1976 version with Jeff Bridges and Kong arousing Jessica Lange near a waterfall, obviously a fake, craned robot. Again, we have the naked African natives dancing about in feathers, bones and sexual savagery throwing in a little greed for fossil fuels.<br /><br />The irony is that the recent 2005 newer version of KING KONG with Adrien Brody and Jack Black fares no better. The natives are cannibalistic, evil and dirty.<br /><br />America would not be America without racism.<br /><br />The reason I bring these three films to light is that there was a WWII ARMY Enlistment poster with anti-German sentiments showing King Kong wearing a Nazi helmet and abducting the statue of Liberty. The words, "Destroy This Mad Brute" cover the top in bold letters while the word ENLIST blankets US ARMY!<br /><br />How is this not Government sponsored racism?<br /><br />Burroughs is no different than other literary giants that helped create and maintain stereotypical tokens for minorities.<br /><br />Writers like Mark Twain AKA Samuel Clemens and L Frank Baum blatantly utilized racial slurs in novels and political leanings, how are we to expect generations of non-native writers, film directors and producers to be even the slightest in accuracy, depicting intelligence in dealing with indigenous cultures?<br /><br />Until minorities take the reigns at writing, directing and producing film and books, or the academias, schools and universities evolve into ACTUAL institutions of learning and factual intelligence, as opposed to social engineering for the religious right and the defense industry, I am afraid the myth of the American story will remain, as it has since colonial times, a big fat box of commodity cheese!Chief Diet Cokenoreply@blogger.com