Mary Poppins Is Branded Racist by US Academic Over Famous Rooftop Scene Because When She Gets Covered in Soot She ‘Gamely Powders Her Nose and Cheeks and Gets Even Blacker’
3rd February 2019
But writing in the New York Times under the headline ‘Mary Poppins, and a Nanny’s Shameful Flirting With Blackface,’ Professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner attacks the scene. Not surprisingly, the film’s legions of devoted fans have reacted with disbelief.
Insane. Just … insane. Insane that he would write it, and insane that the Times would publish it.