gus ceasar is a legend wrote:Conditioning?
So are you saying there was some subliminal message behind the jam badges?
Should I be trying to read more into the creature on the front of pickled onion monster munch bag?
C'mon Quartz that is going too far!
As for the roles played by actors in films I would suggest that was down to lazy imaginations and scriptwriting rather than the movie industry trying to control us into a certain way of thinking. Maybe there were limited roles for black actors many moons ago but again that could easliy be attributed to poor subject matter either being researched or drawn up. It also has to be said that up until recent history there were only a handful of black people who had much impact on the world as we know it and as a result there were less stories to tell with them in leading roles. That's a fact!
That's exactly what it was and is Gus...
conditioning.
Obviously the Monster Munch bag is not the same type of conditioning...but any marketing undergad will tell you the colours on food packets are designed to catch your eye.
The films were perhaps in part due to lazy scriptwriting but there was a lot of other more sinister stuff going on..check out Griffith's "Borth of a Nation".
Very much disgaree that it has only been recently that Black people have had an impact on the world.
That is far from a fact -
Two Biblical prophets.
Some of The Pharoahs, plus Akhenaton, Imhotep, Khufu.
Three Popes.
Aesop.
Hannibal.
Tharka, Nubian ruler and master builder.
The rulers of the Ashanti Kingdom.
George Washington Carver.
Louis Latimer.
To name a few.
