The Little Rascals

I saw this black and white TV series (which was firstly filmed at 30's) on my little telli when I was just four or five years old, at the time it was showed again either 80's or 90's (I am not really sure), I just watched it as the only movie that I can understand, it's really funny so I can't stop laughing, full of adventure and smart discussion among innocent kids around my age but they are already critical and have a good thinking for the problems that the gang faced.

One of the big issues I still can remember was when Alfalfa fell in love with Darla and they went out together silently since the gang (If I'm not mistaken) which was named we men hate women didn't allow the members to go out with girls. So there goes on, until they found out this fact and try to apart the two. And on and on.

When all of sudden I missed these innocent and critical kids lately, I browsed through the webs and finally found the fact that this kids movie was not that simple as I thought. It was filmed before the World War II yes, and if we can remember back that the time of 30's was a Great Depression era, where then, the sensitivity of the American public will kill the rich history of comedy displayed in these series if media doesn’t separate racism from racial humor, because actually this movie was sometimes racist towards black. After the depression, these series became good humored parodies about that one of unique characters in American culture.
An example I can mention is when most times Stymie or Farina (the black kids) were leaders of the gang (mostly white kids} and maybe ( I think..) that it's a kind of empowerment. But I don't really know what I'm saying though. :P

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But I know for sure that it's still a thing that worth to be watched. And after that we can see the message, that hopefully the racist people will be able to overcome their humorless attitude and can accept those unique characters instead of bashing their own traits in hopes of a grey world.
Thank you, thank you :)

*old pictures were grabbed from www.allposters.com