Friday 15 December 2017

Racism all the way down

Rastus in Zululand (1910)

Directed by Arthur Hotaling this is an early silent film. An African-American man ends up sent to Zululand where he is offered a choice of marrying the chief's daughter or going in the pot.

Well this is essentially a horribly racist short built around a single “joke” that comes late in the film. It is hard to find a redeeming feature here as even for the period the film was made in this is pretty distasteful. If I were you I'd just give this one a miss.


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