Monday, April 23, 2007

THE RASTUS INVITATIONAL: In wake of the news that the maker of Uncle Ben's has now elevated its longtime spokesperson into the company's fictional CEO, the WaPo's David Segal has compiled a slideshow highlighting America's sad history of racially-stereotyped spokescharacters.

Folks interested in the topic ought to locate the late Marlon Riggs' 1987 documentary Ethnic Notions, a snippet of which is available on YouTube here.

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