Word: fetchit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congressman Mickey Leland's charge that the show was a reversion to the "Stepin Fetchit syndrome" is a total injustice to Cleavon Little, a talented, intelligent and sensitive black actor. What actually was shown was a new Congressman in Washington weighing the advice of his more experienced staff, one of whom was a black woman. Indeed, in the last show we taped, Dugan learns that being a lawmaker does not give him a license to be pompous...
...about blacks, they would have looked very much like Amazing Grace, a wheezy little family comedy starring "Moms" Mabley. Such excellent actors as Rosalind Cash and Moses Gunn are also lurking in the vicinity, and there are a couple of cameo appearances-for camp and sentimental value-by Stepin Fetchit and Butterfly McQueen. But the movie is clearly a vehicle for Moms...
...help they can get. Harvey Korman, better known for his boring slapstickery on the Carol Burnett Show, destroys the comedy of the villain's role by his overbearing and predictable gestures and expressions. Cleavon Little, another gift from the world of TV comedy, plays Black Bart like Stepin Fetchit. Such a portrayal lacks not only racial sensitivity; it lacks...
...adventures are organized as a sequence of sketches, or "beats," as Play wright Harrison calls them, with many of the 17 cast members playing a variety of roles - a deacon, a shuffling Stepin Fetchit, crapshooters, addicts...
...children's minds with the filth, violence, and cultural lies that are all-pervasive in current productions of so-called black movies," explained Junius Griffin former president of the Hollywood branch of the NAACP and a founder of the new coalition. "The transformation from the stereotyped Stepin Fetchit to Super Nigger on the screen is just another form of cultural genocide...