Friday, July 20, 2012

Drums = Cannibals = Racist Stereotypes = Disrespect of Indigenous Peoples/Humanity

Carolyn Jones  is upstairs playing a set of bongos with her shoes (to more voluminously bother the folks on the floor below) in a hotel room.  Edward G. Robinson, downstairs, says, "What do you have up there? Cannibals?"

Gotta love "classic" films ("A Hole In The Head" with Frank Sinatra).  One must ask really why we continue to keep these insulting moments and portrayals in such rotation.

Might it have something to do with capitalism, conglomeration and the still deeply entrenched anti-cultural systems and structures of racism and colonialism?