Opens Minds Sees, Open Heart Listens

As a kid (still am a big kid) I loved to watch cartoons (still do). I mean that was my thing, so much that I tried to major in it with the little time spent in college. What I now realize as I got older is how some of those cartoons as we were kids were so free to be ... well racist.

To be honest when we're young we really don't pick up on certain things. I think it's because we have certain level of innocence or as I like to say "being pure of heart". Just to think how much stuff we witnessed and heard and never really began to pick up on it till we realized it was us that was being picked on or being closed out because of our ethnicity.

The beauty of youth - childhood is that you don't see any separation. It's just kids being kids and wanting to have fun. I like to keep that outlook now and be able to say that we are all in the same boat with these times of financial hardhsip. The thing that separates us today is the all mighty dollar and it's not the individuals but the access the dollar allows.

Sorry, I definitley got a bit carried away but back to the original topic. I definitely don't want things to be so P.C. that it turns everything into a fake world. I'd like to think that something like this lets us look back to see really how the media played such an important role on how people were portayed. These images came be the seeds for many different outcomes. It all depends on who is in care of these impressionalble minds. When I came across these, so many other cartoons came to mind but I wasn't able to find any. A lot of different images flew around in mind mind that to me were really crazy. I loved these cartoons and still do because they are a part of my childhood. I just figured I'd share a couple and see how people feel about it.

Racism on Earth via Cybertron

Word on the street is the new Transformers is all blast and no brains (what a surprise). I have to admit I went into the first one thinking I would hate it and was wrong. Some of the fight scenes were down right outstanding. I did however have an issue with the Autobot Jazz. He was voiced by Darious McCrary and during his first apperance he cursed and did a break dance move. *blink* In my opinion this was unnecessary and a tad bit racist. AND he was the only Autobot to die!

So fast forward to 2009 and we have Transformers 2 on deck. Michael Bay has introduced two (imaginary) transformers who are twins. These "twins" talk with a black-cent and one has a damn gold tooth! I picked up the story from CHUD.com so you guys can go ahead and read up on it. As for me I'm keeping my 10 plus bucks in my pocket for Transformers 2. I'm good.


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