film clip, racism stuff
Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898) – alternativ versjon https://youtu.be/Y1FvpEeUBQo via @YouTube
oh wow. Okay so the first chunk of the clip is definitely comedians who've acted together for a while. But the second more seen part too. They're dressed middle class and the whole thing is people playing to Black theatergoers. And that's a batch of legitimization - the folks in Black Wall Street, or how Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway came from these really middle class backgrounds. This is what all the racism in the 20s was pushback against. If that "read" makes any sense.