[LMB] OT: Prejudice [Was: Ekaterin: was Elli]

[Katrina Allis]

On 14/12/2007, Mark A. Mandel <thnidu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Exactly. Thank you, Mitch. The musical was not racist, but ANTI-racist. I
> have read that the producers wanted Rodgers & Hammerstein to take out that
> song, "You've Got to be Taught", and they answered that No, that would
> destroy the whole point of the entire thing. Glad they stood firm.
>
> As a child I didn't understand the song. I didn't realize that Joe wasn't
> literally saying "it's necessary to bring children up as racists", but
> rather "racism isn't natural, it doesn't happen unless it's drummed in their
> dear little ears".
>
> m a m
>

I watched it five or six years ago.  This is the first time racism has ever
occured to me in connection with the film.  I thought it was a musical
romance.

But then, I was a teenager then and I've hardly thought of it since.

Katrina