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Among them was a bug eyed, balloon lipped Black teen dressed in loud clothes that gave him a “zip coonish” appearance named wait for it!
Dart Adams presents Black Like Me: The History Of Black Comic Book Heroes Through The Ages Part One 1900-1968 (Re Up) Dart Adams 2009
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Among them was a bug eyed, balloon lipped Black teen dressed in loud clothes that gave him a “zip coonish” appearance named wait for it!
Dart Adams presents Black Like Me: The History Of Black Comic Book Heroes Through The Ages Part One 1900-1968 Dart Adams 2008
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Since when is calling a coon a coon cause for a coonish egging?
One Cosmos 2009
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Tyler was reacting to director Spike Lee's criticism of his coonish characters, who Lee calls "racial stereotypes."
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To tell you the truth, I feel like shipping out these swirly coonish so called black people right into the heart land of the KKK, and get them to deal with their coconut asses,
Bossip.com 2008
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We spent those years watching Michael Jackson use creams and surgery to scrape Africa from his face; listening as "entertainers" made fortunes selling coonish caricatures of black life; cringing as black children decreed academic achievement synonymous with "acting white;" aching as teenage filmmaker Kiri Davis re-enacted the old "doll test" and found black children still choose white dolls as prettier or more desirable than black ones; and fuming as black people clung, stubbornly and stupidly, to the custom of referring to themselves by a certain six-letter epithet that begins with N.
unknown title 2009
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We spent those years watching Michael Jackson use creams and surgery to scrape Africa from his face; listening as "entertainers" made fortunes selling coonish caricatures of black life; cringing as black children decreed academic achievement synonymous with "acting white;" aching as teenage filmmaker Kiri Davis re-enacted the old "doll test" and found black children still choose white dolls as prettier or more desirable than black ones; and fuming as black people clung, stubbornly and stupidly, to the custom of referring to themselves by a certain six-letter epithet that begins with N.
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"soundies," the wonder is that Ellington never submitted to the coonish stereotypes of the time, even in 1930's
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