Showing posts with label Tonto talk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tonto talk. Show all posts
August 31, 2016

Racist stereotypes in Sausage Party

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“Sausage Party”’s race problem: This “equal opportunity offender” is just plain offensive No matter how well-intentioned, this kind of com...
May 22, 2016

Lewis and Clark in Saturday Night Live

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The May 21 episode of SNL featured another of its comedic classroom experiences. This time, some terrible white actors performed a terribl...
March 23, 2016

"Indians bring firewater" in All in the Family

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In The Little Atheist episode of All in the Family (airdate: 11/24/75), neighbor Irene Lorenzo attends Thanksgiving at Mike and Gloria...
September 26, 2015

Mike's Tribe in My Wife and Kids

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I recently watched this old episode of a TV show: My Wife and Kids : Season 3, Episode 14 Michael's Tribe (18 Dec. 2002) Michael (ak...
March 16, 2015

Running Zack in Saved by the Bell

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I didn't watch Saved by the Bell when it was on the air. But every long-running show has to have an "Indian" episode, it see...
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December 03, 2014

A 21st-century Peter Pan

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The Racist History of Peter Pan's Indian Tribe Even in the early 20th century, though, critics saw Tiger Lily and her fellow "Pic...
December 02, 2014

Peter Pan's racist history

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The Racist History of Peter Pan's Indian Tribe Even in the early 20th century, though, critics saw Tiger Lily and her fellow "Pic...
December 01, 2014

White Tiger Lily, Aboriginal Chief?

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A new image of actress Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily has people wondering: Eric Haywood ‏@Eric_Haywood Something’s odd about this new Peter #...
July 21, 2014

Betty Boop in Rhythm on the Reservation

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This cartoon has the usual compendium of racist stereotypes. The worst may be the Tonto talk, the teepees, and the complete ignorance of ...
July 16, 2014

Stereotypical Studi in Planes: Fire and Rescue

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The reviews for Disney's Planes: Fire and Rescue all seemed to agree on one thing: The most WTF moments of kids' flick Planes: Fi...
December 28, 2013

Playing Indian in Lassie

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The Land Grabber episode of Lassie (airdate: November 22, 1959) opens with Timmy playing "Indian." He wears a headband with a s...
October 18, 2013

Tonto's craziness justifies crow headdress?

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Johnny Depp's Tonto supposedly is half-crazed because of a childhood trauma. Does that excuse the bird on his head and other oddities? ...
August 24, 2013

Review of Lone Ranger: Vendetta

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The Lone Ranger: Vendetta The Masked Man in a brand-new adventure! From out of the past comes a mysterious killer systematically murdering a...
July 10, 2013

Ranger too racist to reboot

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Spoiler alert as critics rip the whole "Lone Ranger" concept as arguably racist and unworkable: Johnny Depp’s Tonto: Not as Raci...
July 09, 2013

Tonto = Captain Jack Sparrow

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More reviews and analyses of The Lone Ranger --focusing even more on Tonto and its other racial problems: ‘The Lone Ranger’ Is an Epic Tra...
July 03, 2013

Critics agree: Lone Ranger is bad

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The first Lone Ranger review I read wasn't too bad: The Lone Ranger: movie review (PG-13) It's all too much and not enough—a succ...
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Adrienne Keene reviews Lone Ranger

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Spoiler alert! Don't read this if you don't want to know what The Lone Ranger is about. Here's Adrienne Keene's take on ...
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