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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5125964" data-attributes="member: 19675">Well, we actually also pointed out Diff'rent Strokes as well as Webster on TV.The other examples are less common in film/TV and more common in literature or society.  Twain and his contemporaries often depict whites who firmly believe that they are the saving grace of the non-white world.  (Note: different authors did so for different reasons- mockery and satire; mere descriptions of real societal norms; espousing this as truth.)"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man's_Burden" target="_blank">The White Man's Burden</a>" was only partly about justification of American/European imperialsim (or in the case of Kipling's poem, the possible satire of it), bringing Christianity & Civilization to savages, etc., it was also practiced at the local level.For example, there were the "enlightened" slave owners who baptized and educated their slaves (to a point) but fell short of actually manumitting them, for instance, claiming that without their largesse, the blacks would revert to savagery or indolence.By the time we get to Webster and Diff'rent Strokes, some view those shows as just watered down versions of that same mentality.  In their view, the fact that the series' main stars both had medical conditions that permanently rendered them childlike in stature and appearance provides a disturbing subtext in that they were black men who would forever be perceived as "boys."</blockquote>

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