Ma-a-a-mmy.....

Do you remember The Black and White Minstrel Show on TV?  If so, were you offended by it?  Would you be offended by it if it were broadcast again today?  I ask because Eastbourne has put on a pictorial display of the history of the town and been forced to withdraw a picture of an old end-of-the-pier show because it depicts "Uncle Ben's Eastbourne Minstrels" and someone has complained.  Another attempt to air-brush history by pretending that something which happened, didn't.  I can never see the sense.  Feel proud of your past, or feel embarrassed or ashamed of it, but please, don't try to deny it happened.  Interestingly, The Black and White Minstrel Show was enormously popular, but when the BBC tried putting the same show on with the same artists, but without the blackface (it was called Music, music music) it failed miserably, so make what you like of that.