evanonline

It sounds like funny, but it's not.

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evanonline
@evanonline

does anyone else remember that animated educational video about some kid time travelling to when martin luther king jr was a kid too and they bring him to the future, but without martin luther king jr. there society invented Super Racism instead, so teen MLK jr goes back and gets assassinated on purpose, to fix everything



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in reply to @evanonline's post:

i'm always thinking about the bully character whose arc revolves around his shirt getting torn up because he's fat (hilarious), and then at the i have a dream speech someone gives him a jacket that fits him perfectly and it cured his racism or something like that

in reply to @evanonline's post:

particularly i like that its an educational video for children to tell them about how good and cool mlk was (warranted) but also a video about how mlk needed to die to prevent the advent of super racism (maybe less so)

i thought my kid brain misremembered the ending but no, the message is literally "it's a good thing martin luther king jr died or we'd have super racism"

Like they present his assassination as the most important thing he did???

in reply to @evanonline's post:

I remember my teacher showing us this movie in like 3rd grade. I'm just now realising it has the same feel as those weird Bible cartoons, but even weirder because it's framed that tone around a modern historical figure. Basically MLK in place of cartoon Jesus™.

I have this distinct memory of a panning shot of diverse schoolchildren playing at recess, to signal that segregation is over now in modern day. Which confused me at the time as I promptly scanned my all-white classroom, and my 7-year-old brain realised something.

Except, I can't find that particular shot anywhere, so it might not have even been this movie. Who knows how many of these cheesy kid-friendly racism movies are out there.

this makes me wonder what kinds of wild shit they must be showing kids nowadays but it might just be like. youtube kurzgsagt videos on how to win interstellar wars and what if we lived on a supercontinent again, probably.