Talk:Amos 'n' Andy

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What is this supposed to mean: "While African American advocacy groups had protested the radio show on several occasions, progressive groups such as the NAACP were a primary factor in getting the TV show cancelled." What is the NAACP, other than an advocacy group for African-Americans?

To me, a number of parts of the article read as if they were written by someone who has the opinion that A&A is not racist, and made an attempt to write NPOV but didn't quite succeed.

I'll take my lumps for that sentence from back in the day (posted w/o an account); the point I was going for was that the protests of the radio show didn't have anywhere near the effect that the TV protests did. Chalk up the ambiguity to my clumsy self-editing on the day, but it's easy enough to fix. And for the record, I wasn't trying to say that A&A weren't racist, just that they were much more benign than other racially-based elements of pop culture from the 20s and 30s. Enwilson 16:31, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lead description

I largely reverted to an earlier version of the first paragraph from the recent one claiming it to be "the first original series created for radio", which it certainly was not. -- Infrogmation 17:45, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What happened?

In three days time, a tremendous amount of research has been eliminated from this article. Is there some explanation? Pepso 15:52, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I restored the article to 6 June 2006. Indeed, much good information was eliminated, with no justification or even explanation. — Walloon 16:32, 8 June 2006 (UTC)