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From LIFE Magazine, June 19, 1939
Not a great buy.
https://www.breakingbourbon.com/review/ten-high-sour-mash-whiskey
To be fair, the company has changed hands several times. The whiskey in the advert and the whiskey you can buy today are not the same product.
Fair point.
Why?
Even if we write off the blackface as "it was a different time", it contributes nothing to the story. Putting cousin Zeke in ANY other costume, with or without blackface doesn't change the ad at all.
So strange why they choose this as the final print.
There's a certain mentality, a little less common now but all over the place in old media, where the very existence of a particular group was the entire joke. Just, "Hey! What if a guy in black face! HAHAHA!"
Fuck me running, that is a blast from the worst parts of the past
That's repugnant.
Yeah, the past is a pretty fucked up place.
So is the present, and I'm going to bet the future will be fucked up as well.
The fuckery doesn't go anywhere, it just changes.
It's because as a species humans are fucked up.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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