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Fight Club? Racist against Cockney and Idiots.

[depsidase]

[readandwriteclub]

silly, MAGA — you can't build an idol or BA'AL at Mar A Lago...

That's why Trump needs his BA'AL room at the White House 🤣

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[socialjusticeinamerica]

[masterxdanx]

[rampantrhino]

Absoblinkinlutely 💯

[aci25]

[sail-to-live]

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[masterxdanx]

[smbc-comics]

Really should've asked about the ship label before he got in.

Check out the bonus panel on the site.

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[readandwriteclub]

They Just Told Us How to Defeat Them

[captain-flanders]

I don’t understand Tumblr algorithm. For the last three days “For you” page was showing me cats and cat blogs, now it’s UFC and Dagestan fighters. Literally, wtf??!

[slipping-into-madness]

[donniehaspronouns]

this might piss some people off but I don’t think some of you actually ever tried to unlearn your hatefulness. you just came out as queer and decided your new targets really truly deserve it this time.

[donniehaspronouns]

you. you get it.

[readandwriteclub]

"F*CK YOU NAZIS!" Combat Veteran ON TRIAL for Cursing at Trump White House

[soberscientistlife]

I did not know that.

[sleepynegress]

She didn't perform at The Cotton Club. "Baby Esther" AKA "Lil' Esther" did tour the world though and performed at various clubs, starting in Chicago and was arguably the highest paid child performer of her day.

Helen Kane sued Fleischer Studios for infringement of her act with the Betty Boop character. She lost that lawsuit because it had been proven that she had stolen her act and signature baby-voiced scatting from this child performer, Baby Esther. Baby Esther however was originally imitating Florence Mills, the most famous Broadway performer of her day, and the likely originator of both the scatting and the dancing eyes, cutesy act: Note the head shape and large eyes...

Baby Esther was called the Mini Florence Mills. So, I think the blueprint for Betty is actually Florence Mills.

Here are clippings about Esther's act and the lawsuit:

[sleepynegress]

Adding a little bit more here... A lot of history is easily obscured in the modern era, simply because we didn't have recording equipment for the people who were a part of it. However, you can still get a feel for how famous these people were by newspaper scans like this:

THAT is a photo of Florence Mills' funeral in New York. We don't have recordings of her performances, but...You can see that her passing SHUTDOWN New York streets. And those mourners are all colors, packed in for her. She was a GIANT STAR. A lot of old cartoon stars, that started out anthropomorphized, were based on minstrel performances.

Which is the reason why their eyes were often drawn big, and their forms human-animal hybrids. Betty started out as a human-like dog. That for me is further evidence that she was based on a Black Woman as is the styling of her companion admirer....with his lower lip and bowler hat placement.

The way her earliest form is drawn as well as the gestures...

...Again, note that her teeth and the way her figure is drawn and positioned are clues. In fact, one of the Fleischer's most famous ground-breaking cartoons Minnie The Moocher was animated with that same style common to that day, was done with a early form of rotoscoping from Cab Calloway, a technique that was subsequently perfected and still used:

So... AGAIN... Because I see this subject brought up a lot, when it comes to Betty Boop, and there is always either misinformation or not enough context to understand, the hows and whys given the trends in cartoons in the times. The big trend was... minstrelsy. Betty Boop was based on a Black woman and child. There is another post in the responses that obscures that a bit, but I posted the receipts above here for who those *specific* performers who inspired her creation, were.

[sleepynegress]

I have one more interesting piece of evidence... Note Florence Mills' articulated hand:

Now scroll back up and take a gander at that original "poodle" version of Betty, and look at her hand...which one is articulated, and specifically how.

[sponsored-deactivated20210106]

NGL Helen Kane actually plays her character called Betty Boop, for Paramount Pictures, in the 1920's long before Fleischer made that same Betty Boop an iconic cartoon character known for her "Boop-Oop-a-Doop"

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Not saying whiteface parody wasn't a thing back then, because it absolutely was — and there was some mad ass talent in the 1920's

...but, Paramount Pictures owned Helen Kane and her Betty Boop — Paramount commissioned and distributed the Betty Boop cartoons that were animated by Grim Natwick. (Max Fleischer didn't do anything other than run the Fleischer Studios where Natwick did his animating, but Jews will keep taking credit for shit...)

...still the Lil' Esther/Betty Boop gets a 6/10 conspiracy theory; could be up there with "Marilyn Monroe killed JFK out of jealousy" if you ignore established timelines a little...

[readandwriteclub]

[ansy1984]

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis calls DOJ

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis calls DOJ “anti-weaponization” fund a “payout pot for punks” – CBS News Watch CBS News Congress left town without voting on what the Justice Department has called its “anti-weaponization” compensation fund. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion reports. Source link

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis calls DOJ

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Trump DOJ BANS The IRS From Auditing Him For LIFE… (NOT CLICKBAIT)

[readandwriteclub]

She wants to deport worker who helped her