Anti Racism in Cartoons

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@RNS_Aurelius Жыл бұрын

People often say kids are too young to learn about things like racism. The first time someone was explicitly racist to me was when I was 8, the first time someone was explicitly racist to my son he was 5. There's no such thing as too young.

@everfluctuating 11 ай бұрын

agreed. being "too young" to know about racism is a privilege in and of itself. some kids of color endure their first instance of racism before theyre even born, in the way their mother is treated while theyre in the womb.

@watching7721 11 ай бұрын

Kids shouldn't learn about racism, but that's not realistic to expect for most people

@markd.9042 10 ай бұрын

@@watching7721Absolutely not true.

@watching7721 10 ай бұрын

@@markd.9042 In what way is it not true

@markd.9042 10 ай бұрын

@@watching7721 Children can and should be trusted to know about what racism is. That much is clear.

@joshuaowens2418 11 ай бұрын

Young MLK walking through the door back to the past knowing he would die to save the future was honestly powerful

@LILAC_CHAOS 11 ай бұрын

Core Memory Unlocked

@cuppajj 11 ай бұрын

It still gets to me tbh

@Dillpickle1997 10 ай бұрын

Bro that shit made me cry

@Val-ud9fn 10 ай бұрын

Maybe listen to what MLK actually had to say beyond (and after) his "I have a dream" speech. A speech that conservatives love to use against black people. MLK was *not* a conservative

@mrmanju6989 10 ай бұрын

yes, he was an anti-gay communist. Ppl tend to pick the good stuff to repeat and not the nasty stuff. Ppl use MLK as a bludgeon to support their anti-white bigotry these days. Pretty insane @@Val-ud9fn

@Mysterynovus Жыл бұрын

For as many times as I watched Our Friend, Martin in school, I completely forgot they edited in the cartoon characters to ACTUAL FOOTAGE of Civil Rights movements. Absolutely wild lol

@lemonboi1609 11 ай бұрын

I mever saw that show but i wanted to congratulate you for commenting and being popular

@guppy2816 10 ай бұрын

I remember that part the most because I (the only black kid in class) cried and the other kids made fun of me for it and the teacher did NOTHING

@thethirdchimpanzee 10 ай бұрын

@@danteinferno7661It's true, sadly - at least, don't just automatically trust white people.

@killershark597 10 ай бұрын

Omg our friend Martin made me cry 😭😭😭😭

@polocatfan 10 ай бұрын

@@guppy2816seems like the teacher needed to watch it.

@xanosghoul 11 ай бұрын

Imagine that Christmas episode of Hey Arnold from Hyunh's perspective. You are a grown man, you've been through real hell and seen country invaded by an imperialist superpower and had to deal with you and your family nearly dying because of it. You had to give up your only child just in the hopes of giving them a better life and you have searched for this child for months or even years trying to reunite. Overtime you start losing hope and the crushing reality that you may never meet your child again starts setting in. Only for some dumb-ass child with a reverse Mohawk to reunite you and your child. That's beautiful.

@arthas640 9 ай бұрын

The US was an imperialist superpower but they didnt invade and Hyyunh's family werent dying because of the US. The US had a minor presence in Vietnam when the Japanese invaded, Ho Chi Mihn even met with OSS agents during WW2, and the US had a minor presence when the French occupied the area but the US actually helped decolonization (easy to forget but prior to the Cold War the US tended towards anti-colonial attitudes since colonialism interfered with free trade). Before LBJ fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin incident the US had already been in Vietnam at the behest of South Vietnam who were a US ally created because Vietnam had already been heavily divided between rival groups with the socialists and communists on 1 side and the nationalists, republicans, monarchists, Catholics, and capitalists on the other. Hyunh was separated from his daughter during the Fall of Saigon and people were so eager to leave because the invading communist forces were carrying out retribution attacks killing people for being capitalists, for being christian (the dictator of south Vietnam was hated for forcing Catholicism on the majority non-christian country and Christianity was associated with colonialism), for aiding the Americans, for aiding the South Vietnamese government, or for quiet a few other things and plenty of random innocent civilians got caught in the crossfire. The communists were also known to kill family members of those they were opposed to as well, I had a friend who served it the South Vietnamese army as some kind of liaison between his country and the Americans because he knew a bit of English and when he fled Vietnam they killed his whole family in retaliation.

@AntoninBobot-Marinier 4 ай бұрын

The "reverse mohawk" made me wheeze, ngl

@Coolnessman1 10 ай бұрын

“What would I do if I found out my dad was racist?” It kinda works the other way. When you have a racist dad, you learn that YOU’RE racist at like 13 when you meet your first black friend and realize you learned most of that fucked up stuff you thought about black people from your dad.

@mrmanju6989 10 ай бұрын

who are these ppl? Idk if i've ever met someone like that in my life.

@lookatdemijipers 9 ай бұрын

@@mrmanju6989there are zero people that don't know a racist, only people that don't know that some of the people they know (or even themselves) hold racist beliefs

@tinyratdude 4 ай бұрын

@@lookatdemijipers I don't know a racist though

@willnyanyan 2 ай бұрын

@@tinyratdudeyou live in heaven then

@tinyratdude 2 ай бұрын

@@willnyanyan i live in a sewer

@AngryNerdBird 11 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, just 3 years ago they made a SU short that just says "Hey don't be racist, also yes racism still exists", and so many racist folk got angry that they that they had to shut off the comments even before COPPA made all kids cartoons do that.

@JHamron 8 ай бұрын

If what you got out of those shorts is "don't be racist" you missed the point of those shorts. There were very explicitly about the idea that being anti-racist is about actively seeking out and fighting discrimination. They're set up in a way that parodies old "don't be racist, be colorblind :)" children's media that treats racial inequality in the modern day as cartoonishly evil rather than as a nuanced insidious undertone that asks us to ignore people's race and therefore indirect displacement and social biases. They were actively designed to make you question how we treat race in society and I think they're all the better for it.

@AngryNerdBird 4 ай бұрын

@@JHamronI was simplifying the description for the sake of brevity, buddy, but by all means explain the obvious to me as if I didn't watch the fucking thing. 😂

@JHamron 4 ай бұрын

@AngryNerdBird I was just saying because "don't be racist" was kinda the tag-line of the part that was subverted. Plus it seems to be pretty common for people to completely miss the point of those shorts.

@2-bit567 2 ай бұрын

Did you watch the whole short?

@AJ1770s 11 ай бұрын

Meanwhile in adult shows start trek had the first interracial kiss

@antifa_communist 9 ай бұрын

Start trek

@lookatdemijipers 9 ай бұрын

start trek

@otakon17 9 ай бұрын

Had Lincoln show up on there too.

@SnoFitzroy 8 ай бұрын

start trek

@callmeaprilroseorisha404 7 ай бұрын

start trek

@kierstenburtz8442 10 ай бұрын

As an older Gen Z kid, I thought the color of friendship was a fever dream at first because I only ever saw it once when I woke up in the middle of the night and turned on Disney channel because I had a nightmare or something and couldn't go back to sleep. That is still the only time I've ever seen the movie, but maybe I should give it another watch lol

@orchdork775 10 ай бұрын

It's a good movie!! I had no idea that the real South African girl disappeared and was likely murdered, though. That makes the movie a lot darker. The worst part is that her dad must have been in on it since he was so powerful. The cops would have made sure that nothing happened to his daughter if he had ordered them to keep her safe while in custody, so if she "disappeared," then it's because he ordered it to happen. Then, the fact that there is no record of him trying to hold the police officers responsible says a lot. He probably had the power to have them killed, have the entire police force in that area shut down, have them arrested, etc, but he didn't. When the child of a very powerful person is killed, then they use every tool at their disposal to make the killer pay. That being said, I don't actually know if there is a record of him doing anything about his daughter's "disappearance" or not. Maybe he did, and it wasn't mentioned, but I feel like it would have been brought up. Either way, it's horrifying to think that a parent could kill their own child for having opposing political beliefs. It's no wonder the man was responsible for the imprisonment and death of countless people.

@LiliLovesStuff Жыл бұрын

I recognize the "My Friend Martin" VHS cover from the thumbnail and had to stop what I was doing and watch this video. That and "The Color of Friendship" lived on my television set. Living with your Black Grandparents in the 90s meant any kids friendly anything that dealt with the Civil Rights movement stayed on out TV set (along with good old History Channel when it was all WWII). 90s Nick had some bangers on it and ngl Rugrats was my like introduction into Judaism. I really do love your long form videos. I know that stuff like this is much more difficult to make then your usual stuff.

@davidphetteplace4769 Жыл бұрын

Not surprised fairly odd parents had racist undertones.

@diamondmetal3062 10 ай бұрын

I feel you’re correct, but please elaborate.

@poptartravioli5874 10 ай бұрын

@@diamondmetal3062something something Butch Hartman probably (he’s the creator of the show and I don’t remember exactly what happened but he seemed a lil bonkers after the show ended)

@EggandBanana08 10 ай бұрын

also Timmy Turner was voiced by Tara Strong a zionist@@diamondmetal3062

@CakeGoober 10 ай бұрын

@@poptartravioli5874 he tried to launch what was basically pureflix for kids after leaving nickelodeon. If that's not a minefield of red flags, I've got beachfront property in Kansas you might be interested in.

@strawberycupcake 10 ай бұрын

@@poptartravioli5874 didn’t he try to make an “autism cure” at some point

@fez284 11 ай бұрын

I love the fact they're literally cartoons overlaid onto real footage. Often we humans (especially kids) remove ourselves from this kind of history. We feel it's "just a different time" but it was real humans too back then. It may seem far away, but it's not.

@artsycandy9183 10 ай бұрын

Ron Dellums is a badass. He was extremely progressive omg. People really need to integrate black history into general history better. I had no idea this man existed and he did so much. I’m not American though, which might be why… but his impact was beyond America. The story of his children should be ubiquitous as well.

@Creepyslandofdreams 9 ай бұрын

4:05 Rogers was also making a biblical allegory here, as im sure alot of people know. Washing the feet was a refrence to when Jesus washed peoples feet, which was a occurring thing. Jesus was symbolicly making himself the servent of humanity and gods people, as Mr. Rogers washes clemonts feet, and he makes the (surprisingly unpopular at the time) statement that all people are people.

@bubblemansam Жыл бұрын

I almost forgot about The Color of Friendship. I could never remember the name of the movie but I always remembered it as "the South Africa" movie. Looking back it's honestly crazy they were showing this when I was a kid.

@aether621 Жыл бұрын

i am incredibly impressed by the color of friendship, never in a million years would i expect disney to do all of that!! btw, super happy to see you posting on youtube! ive been looking forward to your long-form content for a while :]

@Urmumlel7025 Жыл бұрын

I gotta make a quick shout out to both The Owl House and Monster High(G3) for all tackling themes of colonization in pretty good ways. The Owl House does this with it's main villain, Belos, who is literally a Bri'ish, witch burning, settler that not only took over lands he wasn't native too but wiped up and demonized their past, forcing them into a system where he was on top. This is indeed a Disney show. Meanwhile, Monster High(G3) has Lagoona, someone of Honduran descent, be in conflict with her crush Gill, of UK descent, because his ancestors stole an valuble ancient artifact from her people. This is indeed a modern Nick show.

@commercialairliner 11 ай бұрын

BRI'ISH PEOPLE?!

@UpperNileGuy 11 ай бұрын

Belos's pronouns are actually xhim xir

@polocatfan 10 ай бұрын

that second one seems kinda dumb. blaming people for what their ancestors did is not ok.

@kurocomics 9 ай бұрын

@@UpperNileGuy once again proving the right-wing only has one joke

@hails1136 8 ай бұрын

i also think it's really cool that even after his death (spoilers ig), belos literally haunts and possesses the protagonists and continues to cause problems. i choose to believe the creators did this on purpose to parallel how colonization and white supremacy don't simply die, they haunt future generations and will continue to do harm if not actively combatted.

@joshuamcguire4498 Жыл бұрын

Your background music is always so interesting. I love the vibe of your videos. Also I watched “my friend Martin” for the first time this year after my girlfriend telling me about her watching it in school. It sounded like a fever dream when she described it, a feeling that was replicated by watching it. What an insane experience.

@zacklyons1284 Жыл бұрын

I’m surprised he didn’t mention the Steven Universe shorts that literally had the tagline “Be Anti-Racist”

@mrmanju6989 10 ай бұрын

Those were laughably sinister. Talk about indoctrination 101. Pretty pathetic stuff

@Sonic_the_hedgedog 10 ай бұрын

@@mrmanju6989*I don't understand why "Be Anti-Racist" is sinister. I think it is a good thing that we've teaching people to not be racist. It is not "pathetic" to be anti-racist.*

@Omerizorman 9 ай бұрын

Because it was - be Gay First - and THEN DON'T BE RACIST

@el-karasu6070 9 ай бұрын

@@mrmanju6989 If you think that's indoctrination, there's something deeply wrong with you, and most likely racist yourself.

@casadastraphobia 5 ай бұрын

@@mrmanju6989Oh no! My kids were indoctrinated to not be racist! This is the worst thing to happen!

@deredere2096 11 ай бұрын

Holy cow, I almost forgot “My friend Martin” until I specifically remembered all the racism that happened when they went back to the present. Thank you for clearing a lost memory.

@mostrecenthero 11 ай бұрын

The Color Of Friendship's a thing that I'm just now hearing about thanks to this vid! Thank you for making this and for letting me have the ability to see this, too! Our Friend Martin was a total rollercoaster to have seen when I did see it, too.

@krownvekta09 11 ай бұрын

There really were so many bangers when it comes to the animated shows of the 90s and early 2000s. That Static Shock episode was a huge eye opener for me when I was younger. Another is simply walking down the street with a friend of color and them being called racial slurs, while I was berated for hanging out with them. It put a lot of things into perspective. It was one thing for me as a white person to read about it in school with how washed down it is, to experiencing it in person. Luckily, it was only words being thrown and nothing else. I remember that episode of Hey Arnold not hitting for me when I was younger. I am not sure why. Rewatching it later in life really gives someone the feels. Such a strong episode.

@lookatdemijipers 9 ай бұрын

it was easier to ignore racism when I lived in the city and nobody cared about skin color vs moving to the middle of nowhere where people called me slurs regularly lol

@winterzealot 9 ай бұрын

I've never watched Hey Arnold but hearing you describe the story in that episode made me cry

@arthas640 9 ай бұрын

it's pretty intense for a kids show. That episode always stuck with me because i knew a man who had something like that happen to him. He grew up during the Vietnam war near Saigon and got drafted into the South Vietnamese military and worked with Americans because he spoke some english. After the South fell the communists killed his entire family in retribution (sadly common at the time) and he spent years in a refugee camp in Thailand after walking the whole way there, then eventually made it to the US. He never went back to Vietnam because he lost his whole family and most of his surviving friends had also fled.

@Ovasiig 10 ай бұрын

I distinctly remember “our friend Martin” and being genuinely upset how shitty they were treating miles. Like as a 7 year old I remember being angry about it. That did it’s fucking job I can tell you that

@BecomingBoundless Жыл бұрын

Really good video. I still have a hard time believing the white gloves of Disney and Max Fleischer cartoon characters were done for any other reason than making them more visible in a black and white cartoon, but I have seen some horrendously racist shit in those old cartoons as well, so it's not impossible to say it was based on minstrel shows. The Color of Friendship is one of my favorite Disney movies. I'm glad you talked about it. You could possibly do a follow up on this with anime as well. A lot of the racist caricatures learned from western cartoons still show up in comics and anime to this day.

@SkyTreeStudio Жыл бұрын

I think it might not specifically be that they wanted to be racist, but more they were adopting trends of the time, trends that happened to be racist

@woke_karen Жыл бұрын

Hey, I appreciate your comment and your video suggestion. But it kinda seems like you’re suggesting that the segment on cartoons and minstrel shows is a ‘take’ and that it’s ultimately up for interpretation. Because it’s not. To say that cartoons and minstrel shows aren’t intertwined is to be a history revisionist. Everything including the gloves is directly inspired from minstrel shows. Like the music, comedy, theatrics, costumes, vibes, and performances are identical. The gloves being easy to draw isn’t that significant when a) all the other similarities exist, b) the gloves aren’t different from the ones in minstrel shows in any way, and c) there are examples of these connections to point to, such as “Mickey’s Mellerdrammer (1933)” including a literal rendition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin where he painted his skin black like a minstrel performer. Anyways, I’m glad you liked the video!

@BecomingBoundless Жыл бұрын

@@woke_karen Thanks for responding and thanks for pointing out some sources for me to look at.

@Genghis_Khan3 10 ай бұрын

@@woke_karenL

@polocatfan 10 ай бұрын

yeah this was specifically done with Mario for that reason, so it seems like a really weird take, especially since even if it was true the gloves aren't even related to that kind of thing anymore and haven't been in decades.

@samsanimationcorner3820 10 ай бұрын

Honestly, the weirdness of 90s TV needs to come back. Weirdness is good.

@pooperprime5459 9 ай бұрын

I literally had no fucking idea that you made videos longer than TikTok length and I feel like I’m in a parallel universe candy land. Losing my fucking mind because it’s 4/3/24 but I’m happy I can watch this for the next 25 minutes without concern for anything happening right now

@crazygamecrafter8830 Жыл бұрын

26:48 THE LOOK ON THEIR FACES IM FICKINCTG CRYING

@SparkerZed Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid (not that long ago) movies and tv teaching you a “lesson” was the norm. I gotta wonder what changed to make everyone hate that idea and calling it virtue signaling

@sharktenko267 11 ай бұрын

The against hijabs isn't that people shouldn't be allowed to wear them, it's them in many Muslim countries women are forced to wear them And even in america in some families women are forced to wear them The issue is them being forced ie jot given that choice

@Sonic_the_hedgedog 10 ай бұрын

*I agree that hijab shouldn't be forced.*

@maxhadanidea 9 ай бұрын

@@Sonic_the_hedgedog you're spittin facts but why are all of your comments *entirely in bold*

@Sonic_the_hedgedog 9 ай бұрын

@@maxhadanidea I really enjoy using *bold* sometimes. Also I'm glad you liked my comments. 😄

@Mizuki-Akiyama.N25ji 5 ай бұрын

One’s religion (and how they choose to express it) should not be forced just because of their birthplace, family etc.

@saimahramen Жыл бұрын

31:00 love the touch of the omori music everytime you mention Mari 😭

@dabbins3095 11 ай бұрын

I felt that too the instant i heard the music

@VegitoBlue202 11 ай бұрын

Lmao!!!

@RunD.Ones1s 7 ай бұрын

That Hey Arnold episode genuinely changed the way I looked at the world as a kid, truly a special show that is one of a kind

@markthesapphicdumpsterfire1745 6 ай бұрын

The proud family actually got worse. The parents at some points are straight up emotionally abusive in the reboot.

@a-s-greig 2 ай бұрын

I... didn't think it was all that good the first time? I preferred _Lilo & Stitch: The Series,_ and by a *lot.*

@plainText384 Жыл бұрын

Bro Disney NEEDS to make a "Color of Friendship 2", where the south African girl is killed by her fathers colleagues (Boy in the striped pajama vibe). Like she goes home, and is executed for not being racist enough. That would be based and worthy of vine boom sound effects.

@ESPlover707 Жыл бұрын

Omg with the persona 5 ost cameo. I’m dead. I was literally thinking the vibe of some of your background music had persona vibes then it happened. This was great. I love your work on IG. Happy to support your work on here and beyond.

@ThatCatMan469 11 ай бұрын

9:42 “don’t do it miles! It’s a canon event!”

@dustindebris 11 ай бұрын

i fully forgot about Our Friend, Martin !! i had to watch it all the time in elementary//middle school, but we never got past the first 30 minutes wild ride getting all the way through it

@justanothervrguy7521 11 ай бұрын

“Wtf would I do if my dad was racist” Me: your dad isn’t racist?

@belughlegosi 8 ай бұрын

Exactly bc every white person I knew had a racist parent , whether it was straight up hard r or they just made little silly micro aggression jokes

@justanothervrguy7521 8 ай бұрын

@@belughlegosi my dad is my biggest inspiration

@cruztastrophe Жыл бұрын

Something sincerely missing from the conversation of millennial children's media that tackles the issue of racism and social injustices is the movie Selma, Lord, Selma! It came out a year before The Color of Friendship. That movie was mine, and probably a lot of other people's, first kid friendly look into the Civil Rights Movement. Core memory moment: this movie is how I learned that noble and Nobel prize are spelled differently.

@drebone1986 9 ай бұрын

As a black kid I can confirm that nobody learned about racist hiring practices by watching That's So Raven first, we got first hand experience well before and multiple stories handed down thru generations and that goes for alot of these TV specials. From the moment you're born we're talking about it 😂 If anything these specials work for viewing other cultures like the Rugrats passover, Hey Arnold and Mr. Hyunh losing his daughter during the Vietnamese war. Also sometimes it shows how little things like dipping a toe can be controversial for television but blackface and Looney Tunes with Africans cannibals is somebody's throwback jam still

@drebone1986 8 ай бұрын

@WillyFisher412 We saw my friend Martin at 8 years old and Roots the miniseries much younger than that. Only thing I can say about these specials is it's not just for one target audience, anybody should be able to watch them and get some value out of them

@Ajani413 11 ай бұрын

Dude. You have to make more video essays like this. Super informative, but also very engaging. You did a great job. Keep it up

@gregorsamsa2271 9 ай бұрын

"Hey Arnold" truly was so ahead of its time! It's crazy in many ways... Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's modern Life, or the Tex Avery films are pieces that I personally consider as my absolute favorite works of cartoon art! But I respect nothing more than Arnold, because this shows really taught kids the actual important stuff about life in creative, charming and classy manner... We def need more cartoons like that. Cartoons, that can teach kids (and grown-ups) the most valuable things in life! I'm thinking also of other examples, who went this admirable route in the names of “Disney's Fillmore”, “Doug”, “The Weekenders” or “Bobs Burgers”. But no one did it like in the Arnold show. It was truly unique, and always will be timeless.

@pooperprime5459 9 ай бұрын

Calling myself bisexual has always felt like an overreach. But you make me wonder.

@randalalansmith9883 10 ай бұрын

The Mister Rogers pool episode was not only timely, because all across the nation, public pools were closing rather than face the wrath of integration. But also a little bit of that "priest washes feet as a way to show humility" setup.

@nat9380 Жыл бұрын

i guess the recommendation algo did something right today, glad i found this channel :)

@JDandGPS Жыл бұрын

Since they killed Zero Punctuation, you're now my favorite YT channel

@Sonic_the_hedgedog 10 ай бұрын

Also people from Zero Punctuation created a new channel called *Second Wind.* They're still making videos, just under a different username.

@mariahgarrett2227 Жыл бұрын

The Halloween Tree and Our Friend Martin have the same flavor (at least from my foggy memory of it the Halloween Tree) 10/10 would recommend watching if you can find it somewhere. Loved the video!

@Buvucyxfubvydrztcib 11 ай бұрын

parents need to teach their kids about racism. my parents arent racist, but they never taught me what racism was or why it was wrong. i said some pretty bad things from age 6-10 before i learned the effect of racism on people. im a person of color, so it wasnt until somebody said something racist to me when i found out how it felt. please, teach your kids how to be respectful. ive learned from my mistakes, but i know not everybody does.

@honestytheory7529 10 ай бұрын

WHOA🤯 Never heard of The Color of Friendship-- It sounds amazing! The nerve!!! And thanks for giving Disney productions their flowers

@Relisysification 9 ай бұрын

The Hey Arnold episode spoken about was burned into my memory as a kid and it still hits me ages later, between this and "leaves from the vine" I may flood my house with deep sentimental tears 😭

@CactusJackIV 10 ай бұрын

Found this channel through shorts. So glad there are longer videos.

@rueb2455 11 ай бұрын

I'm so glad I found your channel, you cannot imagine how many times I was literally squealing with laughter while covering my face, esp in the last section because hoo boy I didn't see that one back in the day. But I wanna point out that even tho I'm also a millenial, it wasn't universal that we saw these things in school. I'm from the south and the suburbs and frankly, we NEEDED these cartoons. No one else was teaching us about racism, much less how to be anti-racist.

@voiceofanidiot 8 күн бұрын

I love the persona 5 music in your vids always purfect (Cory's sister casually pulling a littel espionage to life will change is amazing)

@m1ndgap Жыл бұрын

Glad to see you trying longer form format on YT! Let's get them subscriber numbers going UUUP! (here is some engagement)

@Chief-Spectre 10 ай бұрын

I legit thought that "My friend Martin" was some sort of fever dream I had as a kid.

@TheShepherdFilms 11 ай бұрын

I am a product of those 1980's and 1990's PBS shows...a military dad...and hippy mom...(a neoliberal and a communist), I am 42...and just want to do national worker strikes...my friends (mostly young and my family) call me soapbox...that would be my superhero name...or rap name...I love those old cartoons, and children's shows...they helped me...also I grew up in Maine...with a

@FoxElliott 10 ай бұрын

That first cartoon about MLK Junior had the negative effect on me that it created the idea that self-sacrifice and calls to empathy are the best way to change society instead of violence. It was only years later that I learned the full history of the civil rights movement, and found that what really correlated to civil rights laws being passed were things like the Black Panther movement and fear of black insurrection by the government. For the longest time I really thought that public pressure, liberal ideas of empathy and equality, and voting was what did it. Nope, fear and violence are the only way governments and society change. It's very grim to think like that way, but the government has never and will never care about the people, only their own self-interests, and they're always willing to physically beat down any attempt at peaceful change.

@ValJan1347 Жыл бұрын

Damn racisim is not based

@danielnidhiry5796 8 ай бұрын

youre right maybe racism is pretty cringe

@TheTessagrear 4 ай бұрын

Racism might be a big L

@AfroCharlieable Жыл бұрын

I cried just remembering the Mr Hyunh Christmas episode

@ejohnson1767 10 ай бұрын

You are showing cartoons that are most likely illegal to show kids in my home state.

@RawrX32009 10 ай бұрын

Southern state moment💀😭

@Sonic_the_hedgedog 10 ай бұрын

That's really sad to hear. These anti-woke politicians are ruining our generation. Sadly, teachers can't even talk about the history of racism in America without some parent calling them "woke". We are moving backwards as a society... I hope things get better for you.

@RegalHyacinth 4 ай бұрын

Lemme guess, alabama?

@Dwoods451 3 ай бұрын

I'm gonna guess Minnesota

@subliminalrats Ай бұрын

My dad was a white student living in South Africa towards the end of apartheid. He often talks about going to a school which had the sole purpose of dismantling/ disrupting apartheid, and how at his graduation in 1984 many of the parents (and even some students) could not attend because they were in solitary confinement for speaking out against the government. Living in South Africa left him with a lot of trauma just from what he experienced, and it's something I witnessed very closely growing up. Anyways tldr is that hearing about how Carrie was a real girl who started one of the first student undergrounds that would have led to the creation of the school my dad went to made me a little dewey eyed. Thank you Karen :)

@exotherm42 6 күн бұрын

Fellow millenial here and I gotta disagree. Steven Universe is just as weird, if not weirder than the examples you mentioned from back when we were young.

@ianfisher5534 11 ай бұрын

Your KZbin shorts vids are good but this was incredible. Love this video.

@alyssae2174 11 ай бұрын

I forgot about "Our friend Martin" until I watched this.

@Sitiluan Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed the video, the thing is i was really annoyed by the tv that was constantly pulsing. Minor thing but by the sixth minute it was the thing i was focusing on, and your commentary was a background to the pulsing tv.

@SilverRagaire 9 ай бұрын

20:50 I believe he 100% knew those boots were sold out. Knowing that the kids wouldn’t be able to finish the list, he sent them on a wild goose chase. He also gets a convenient scapegoat for the boots.

@amandaking9527 10 ай бұрын

The fact that LeVar Burton and Danny Glover were in my friend Martin together puts community in a whole new light

@maddyocean5948 11 ай бұрын

thank you woke karen for pointing out the racist character design in disneys past! i find a lot of people have no problem talking about black history and discrimination about black people and police brutality, but the vast majority of people do not care about anti native racism !! just because it’s not spoken about as much or as socially acceptable to talk about. a lot of people are resistant at the mention of native people at all! so thank you for talking about !!!

@toolittletoolate 10 ай бұрын

Yes! This episode of Static Shock, and just the whole series honestly, was so Iconic for me as a kid

@toolittletoolate 10 ай бұрын

That so Raven, Proud Family and Smart Guy where some fantastic black family sit coms that had some real episodes. Especially smart guy I loved that show when I was younger lol.

@numen_mp4340 Жыл бұрын

No “i want to eat that” 0/10

@numen_mp4340 Жыл бұрын

Video’s dope tho

@Mizuki-Akiyama.N25ji 5 ай бұрын

And no ‘’what are they cooking this time’’

@grimble4564 9 ай бұрын

The Hey Arnold episode honestly made me cry. They didn't need to be so real but I'm glad they were.

@EmeraldLavigne 4 ай бұрын

That episode of Hey Arnold was about the only one I ever watch (no cable) and how horrible Mr Nguyen's experiences were kinda traumatized me as a kid. It still makes me cry lol

@SUPERSONICGIRLIFY 6 ай бұрын

A fantastic video about how racism is portrayed, while also being a love letter to 90's-early 2000's TV. Also, the music choices are ELITE! Undertale, Persona, Sonic, etc. my ears were happy with both the information and soundtracking. 😁👍

@bernjobi 10 ай бұрын

i watched My Friend Martin in third grade i believe, which was around 2011. also, The Color of Friendship sounds like something i should watch sometime. it is interesting disney aired something like that, if your retelling of the plot is accurate

@girthbender2779 10 ай бұрын

I remember going over the civil rights movement in middle school and I shit you not most of us if not all of us could not imagine why anyone could hate another person because of the color of their skin

@Trixabella87 7 ай бұрын

My choir teacher showed us Our Friend, Martin every year for MLK day. I was a sensitive kid and at the time didn't like it because I didn't like seeing all these people get hurt onscreen. But I was taught a valuable lesson, and I remember it fondly.

@Gochujangst Жыл бұрын

DUDE we watched Our Friend Martin in like, 3rd grade! What a wild ride.

@Burningfiretaco 11 ай бұрын

Can’t believe it took so long for me to find this channel, very great and informative content

@emilys3793 11 ай бұрын

that first moment with our friend martin in it unlocked some MEMORIES, holy SHIT

@blurredlights5235 10 ай бұрын

I know times are tense right now, but remember, now at age 25 (a zoomer) myself and the millenials that were my older cousins ALL loved Static Shock someday, i really believe we will put aside our differences and truly appreciate the knowledge other cultures provide. We'd catch it every day. i believe that show did alot of good. Eventually, i believe this will go a

@TheZombo 11 ай бұрын

SO OUR FRIEND MARTIN WAS REAL! I SAW IT IN 3RD GRADE AND COULD NEVER FIND IT CAUSE I DIDNT KNOW THE NAME AND DIDNT THINK I EVER ACTUALLY DID CAUSE I COULD NEVER FIND IT

@osmosis453 Жыл бұрын

32:20 was that American flag was edited in or part of the movie? I can't tell and it's driving me crazy 🤔😬🤪

@YourLocalWitchDJ 11 ай бұрын

God, you just dug up a DEEP memory with Our Friend, Martin.

@UmbreonMessiah 7 ай бұрын

The Rugrats Passover Special is how I learned about the Jewish faith and started looking more into it. Afterwards I met and recognized a lot more Jewish people in my community and had a deeper respect for their beliefs...and hopefully didn't come off as too much of an asshole!

@faielyne 6 ай бұрын

I vaguely remember watching Our Friend, Martin in school and being either shockingly invested or incredibly confused

@totalkatastrophe 3 ай бұрын

6:29 memory unlocked, watched this in history class in middle school

@poorlake8107 10 ай бұрын

15:02 Ok I was DELIGHTED to see that Cory had Lego Bionicles on his shelve! I wanna go back 😔

@a-s-greig 2 ай бұрын

Same. Temporarily ascended, seeing those.

@darthlooper3625 9 ай бұрын

as a parent, id wager the "wild choice" to have them walk over live footage, is to impart to the kids "imagine being there, really take a moment to think about what it would be like to be sprayed with that hose." and honestly, like, is it the most tasteful way to say that? no. is it effective? maybe? does it convey the message of "think about being inside that turmoil"? yes. do i know what the artists thought when they made the decision to do that? no. is this my assumption? yes.

@Bruce_Games 11 ай бұрын

Of course one of the first positive representative in a major kids show would be Mr Rodger’s I mean I’m not religious but if you told me that man was a literal angel descended from the heavens I would believe you