So youtube randomly recommended this old Soviet era cartoon from 1963 right? It starts out with this guy in Africa and-
LOOK AT THIS BLACK MAN IN A CARTOON FROM THE 1960S
HE LOOKS LIKE A HUMAN BEING. HE LOOKS LIKE AN ACTUAL HUMAN PERSON. NOT ONLY THAT HE LOOKS FUCKING HANDSOME AS HELL!!!!!!!!!
You don't understand, all my life black people in animation before a certain time period have always been-
this (theres worse, you know, the ones you can't even tell are supposed to be human)
but this? This is amazing, where has this been all my life, i can-
oh. this is one of those stories
white elephant man needs to keep his fucking white elephant man hands to himself
so you can guess how this goes down. white elephant man roles in and starts giving the bro, who's fucking family has lived and tended to this land for fucking generations, cigarettes and girly mags and pretending like he's the best guy in the world
white elephant man starts ripping the place up and kicks bro out of his damn house! And when he tries to take back his place, which he built, and its fucking his? British Lion Man shows up and
BRO IS FUCKING THROWN IN ANIMAL COURT. Guess how that goes
not the slur i thot would get thrown at him but here we are
this fucking cartoon from fucking RUSSIA in fucking 1963 does not fuck around with this allegory about colonization. Whats also huge is that the narrator always refers to him as "the man" or "a man" but the animals alway call him "the black man"
Pretty good, it doesn't seem!
so this shit keeps happening every time he tries to build a new house and just fucking exist. If he even so much as raises a large stick in anger, the invading animals all howl at him and threaten him with more court visits
What will you do now, Man?
Its good that at least, they did not charge you with new crimes
Truly, they are "very friendly" to you
Maybe you are really guilty?
Guilty of not Looking like they do
Guilty of being the owner of your land
"But, I have to do something"
bro builds the biggest house yet at those fuckers rush right inside to take it for themselves
LOOK AT THIS SAMURAI JACK SHIT
anyways you need to watch this shit, don't forget to turn on the subtitles!
on god i didn't think this was gonna have a happy ending, i thought it was just gonna be "and that, fellow 1960s russian communists, is why those capitalist pigs can't be trusted!"
ok if you didn't want to read all that then heres the short version:
also for those who don't get what the animals represent:
Elephant: US
Crocodile: Germany
Hyena: France
Rhino: Spain
Lion: UK
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