Because cars, vinyls records, candy, drinks, etc., don't have a race, and there are not a lot of advertising pictures from that time period with black people in them?
There were plenty of pictures from that period with Blacks and Hispanics and several other ethnic groups. Ebony Magazine didn't just pop up over night. Not to mention all the other avenues from which positive reflections of non-white life could have been portrayed.
Are we to give up our heritage because there is not a lot of advertising photographs with black people in them?
I didn't say that either. I just noted as lots of Blacks and Hispanics have brought to our attention in the past, is that the majority does this a lot. The majority tends to present most things from its perspective with little to no consideration that only part of the story is being told, but the part being told becomes the "accepted" full truth.
This is what RD2 knows, and I also suspect he didn't make the video. Make your own video from your frame of reference. Why should a video that reminds him of an earlier time in HIS life be all about what reminds you of an earlier time in YOUR life?
It shouldn't be. As I wasn't alive in the 50s, it's not an issue with me. And as you noted RD2 didn't make the video. Somebody else did. But it's awfully convenient that a video intended to reflect on the 50s seems to focus on just the white folks from the 50s. If that's what it was intended to be, then say that. But it seems kinda convenient that just about every face you see is white.
Perhaps with all the racial tensions in the 50s...with MLK and Rosa Parks, etc, the makers of the video didn't think that people would want to remember the 50s for that. But for sure Blacks, Hispanics and other non-Whites did things unrelated to Civil RIghts.
But as I said, if the intent of the video was to only get white people to look and reflect on the 50s, the makers of the video did a good job.
My family was one of the most racially accepting white folks I have ever known. We experienced violence because we refused to care about race. I still didn't have but 10 to 15 black kids in my middle and high school. They simply were not living in my area at the time. So, when remembering growing up the vast majority of people were white. It is in no way condoning racism or excusing things that happened in the past. It is simply what it is.
What's that got to do with the video though? You almost say that as though non-white people just sprung up overnight. :laugh:
They may not have been in our neighborhoods, but they were still a part of the fabric of the United States is what I'm saying.
So a video that's supposed to get you to reflect on the simpler times of the 50s shouldn't come across as "Hey the 50s really only included this group".
It's the same thing that was done for so many decades with textbooks. But again, if the purpose was to get one group to reflect, job well done. But it gives cause again for why that one group should stop asking questions like "why do they have to have their own video titled "A reflection on the 50s, a non-white perspective".
I believe that the Body of Christ has to be careful with things like this because though it may on the surface appear to be harmless, it does give a different impression when you look at the faces and wonder who was the video really intended for. Do we want to come across as racially prejudiced ? Definitely not. But the video simply is what it is. Again, I understand that it was not RD2's intent. He was no doubt just looking for a reflective video.
But when one of the three or four black faces you portray in a video to elicit nostalgia for the 50s is Aunt Jemima, you're telling me there where no other faces of black people that could have been used?
