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Respond to "This is a society where tons of people will defend Roman Polanski, Harvey Weinstein, etc, but not Teddy Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington." Mary Poppins branded ‘racist’ by US academic over soot scene ‘The 1964 film plays racial panic in a farcical key’Jack Shepherd @JackJShepherd Sunday 3 February 2019 12:45 51 comments Mary Poppins for projecting racial stereotypes, saying Dame Julie Andrews ’s character wears “blackface” during one scene. The New York Times , Professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner – a gender studies professor at Linfield College, Oregon – sharply criticises the scene where Mary Poppins joins Dick Van Dyke’s chimneysweep Bert to dance on a rooftop. The pair both get covered in soot as the dance number “Step in Time” is performed.Mary Poppins books, PL Travers, often associated chimney sweeps’ blackened faces with racial caricatures.Ads by Teads Mary Poppins Opens the Door in which a sweep reaches out to a woman with his darkened hand, to which she replies: “Don’t touch me, you black heathen.”Aquaman beats Poppins and Bumblebee at Christmas box office In Mary Poppins Returns, Disney’s magical nanny has come to save us al ‘Playing Mary Poppins is like playing James Bond’ Later, the sweep approaches a cook, who uses the slur for black South Africans “Hottentot” to describe the character.
