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I heard that Cosby bought up The Little Rascals, too. For a funnyman, he's got no sense of humor.



The truth may lie somewhere in the middle. According to snopes: Little Rascals was not bought by Cosby. In that article, it was stated that Cosby pressured CBS to stop syndicating Amos 'N Andy in the early 1960s. So maybe Cosby doesn't have the rights, but he, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al. will bitch and scream about it if a DVD release ever saw the light of day. If anyone has actually watched it they will notice that all blacks are completely integrated into New York life: black store owners, black judges, black lawyers (Algonquin J. Calhoun) in the early 1950s. Try to depict any black person on TV in the 1950s that was not some dim-witted domestic help and you wouldn't been able to air the show in the south. Every one is treated with respect, the only "stereotype" was Lightin', but then again white people had to deal with Jethro Bodine a decade later and Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane a decade after that. Then you have the Wayans brothers who do similar humor without the talent of the writers and actors from the A 'N A show in the 1950s
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