This is one of the things that MIGHT have just been done with no thought but thanks to current day we see it through an ideological lens.
Give you two examples: John Stewart as Green Lantern and Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury. If they were done NOW not previously, regardless of quality they'd be a lot of people saying that they were blackwashing a character.
This could've been resolved with having a young White or Latino kid be the one getting the 'innocent' line but even back then there was a known predilection for young Black men to have 'wrong time, wrong place' syndrome so this scene might've been made under that than agenda pushing.
I know since I started "noticing" sometimes it's difficult to tell when a cigar is just a cigar. Even watching older tv with my mom, I'll catch what I believe is subversive material in The Andy Griffith Show. I dunno if it's there or if I'm putting in there.
Andy Griffith was a Democrat. He actually did have subversive stuff in his show. Old school girl power stuff, plus near the end of the run of it or the Mayberry spin off there was supposed to be a black family that moved in. Plus, guess the ethnicity of the man who created the show? Still way better than what is on modern TV though.
This is one of the things that MIGHT have just been done with no thought but thanks to current day we see it through an ideological lens.
Give you two examples: John Stewart as Green Lantern and Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury. If they were done NOW not previously, regardless of quality they'd be a lot of people saying that they were blackwashing a character.
This could've been resolved with having a young White or Latino kid be the one getting the 'innocent' line but even back then there was a known predilection for young Black men to have 'wrong time, wrong place' syndrome so this scene might've been made under that than agenda pushing.
I know since I started "noticing" sometimes it's difficult to tell when a cigar is just a cigar. Even watching older tv with my mom, I'll catch what I believe is subversive material in The Andy Griffith Show. I dunno if it's there or if I'm putting in there.
Andy Griffith was a Democrat. He actually did have subversive stuff in his show. Old school girl power stuff, plus near the end of the run of it or the Mayberry spin off there was supposed to be a black family that moved in. Plus, guess the ethnicity of the man who created the show? Still way better than what is on modern TV though.