Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for June 10, 2019

It’ll make him strong to the finach.

After the arms, one eye will start to close and the voice will change.

I Yam what I Yam!

well, blow me down

But, “I loves to go swimmin’ with bow-legged wimmins.”

I recall seeing Popeye cartoons even as late as the early 1970’s when my kids watched them that were very racist (made during WWII).

I also remembered other cartoons I saw as a child that were racist as well.

When I took a course based on the book, “America’s Original Sin,” I attempted to look up some of these cartoon and movies and found that they must have been censored out. I think that there is a place for these movies in education. This is the way it was. These were the socially accepted norms of those times.

Youth and other people need to know: it was real and the same kind of “blindness” could be in place today. Also, do not judge people in other times by today’s standards. The materials in the films may be offensive but the producers and the audiences probably didn’t know better. Again, time to reflect: what is it we do today because we don’t know better.

Would it have been better if they had kaled it?

Romaine calm.

I like my fruit and veg. I like smoothies. But I do not like green smoothies.