Someone else mentioned it, the movie wasn't canceled by any stretch of the imagination. Like I don't even see the Article making a case that it was canceled when at the same time admitting it was a commercial success and it made more money than Three Amigos!

I remember Spike Lee and the NAACP being critical of the film but they were outliers and nowhere near the majority opinion of the film at the time.

I think the fact that James Earl Jones was in the movie just speaks to the fact that people just didn't feel as strongly about this sort of stuff then as they do now. I think that's progress, but let's not try to rewrite history to make it seem like people always thought it was terrible to be in blackface.




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