After watching Ethnic Notions which is a documentary about the history of African American men dating back to the middle of the twentieth century. I find it despicable that there were cartoons that mimicked blacks. Calling us things such as “Pickaninny, coon, sambo, and etc.” and we along with the rest of America had these cartoon images in homes and were acceptable to society for some time even now. Working their way into the mainstream American life and now some may even consider these to be antiques and part of history. The cartoons displayed in the documentary were falsified features of blacks. Giving blacks bigger lips, teeth, buttocks, nose, and etc. Larry Levine from the University of California, Berkeley stated that “Blacks don't really look like that. So why is it so appealing to people to think they look like that, and pretend they look like that, and to like to look at icons that look like that. You look at them often enough and black people begin to look like that, even though they don't. Um, so that they've had a great impact in our society.” His statement is completely true.…show more content… It is such a coincidence that the “white” man says this is what the “black” man is and what we perceive them as. In all actuality “white” people want to be black they yearn to look like us. For example white people tan to look darker. They get cosmetic surgery to have fuller lips, bigger breasts, bigger buttocks, curvier bodies and etc. which is something that we as blacks naturally inherit due to our genetics. We as an African American race have been forced to believe that this is how we shall be perceived and we have just accepted it
