Amos 'n Andy ca. 1930: What exactly has changed since then?

[Alexander]

Boskin actually credits Anderson with helping to destroy the "Sambo" image, precisely because he and Benny so often reversed roles (with the black man outsmarting the white man).

Alexander, Sambo was a very intelligent Indian boy who outsmarted the tiger.

Mowgli.

MG

You're thinking of "The Jungle Book." "Little Black Sambo" is a children's classic from waaaay back.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Boskin actually credits Anderson with helping to destroy the "Sambo" image, precisely because he and Benny so often reversed roles (with the black man outsmarting the white man).

Alexander, Sambo was a very intelligent Indian boy who outsmarted the tiger.

Mowgli.

MG

You're thinking of "The Jungle Book." "Little Black Sambo" is a children's classic from waaaay back.

Yes, so I see from the other posts. Never heard of it before.

MG

[Jazzmoose]

Yes, so I see from the other posts. Never heard of it before.

MG

Guess you're completely unfamiliar with their pancakes then...

Edited October 8, 2006 by Jazzmoose

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Yes, so I see from the other posts. Never heard of it before.

MG

Guess you're completely unfamiliar with their pancakes then...

Alexander's pancakes? I thought it was a Ragtime band...

MG

[GA Russell]

Thanks for posting those pictures, Alexander. I thought that the book I grew up with was a reproduction of the original, but what I remember was very obviously an Indian boy.

[fasstrack]

This image comes from the 1899 edition of "The Story of Little Black Sambo." Notice that his hair is more in keeping with an Indian child, but that his features are in the minstrel tradition.

I'll be damned if he doesn't look like Michael Jackson

Seriously, the eyes and hair, a young Michael before the various alterations.....