MAMMY!

All the cartoons are some what based on real characters.

Do you know the character 'Mammy' of the 'Tom and jerry'... the lady who owns Tom, often shouting at him in bad temper... was based on which real person?

While you are thinking about the answer... I want to tell you about this lady!

200 pounds in weight, round friendly face, golden voice (which was the prime thing that brought her into lime light)... more Knowledgeous maid who really worries for the foolish and beautiful scarlett o 'Hara in 'gone with the wind'.

They released a stamp bearing her plump and pretty face some years back ... a 39 cents stamp in U.S!

Then she surely might have been a great lady.

But if you ask why they gave only the role of house maids in the movies!

MMMM... her skin had bit more melanin... white washing the weightage of that bit more grey cells in her brain, compared to her some fairer counter parts!

She didn't attended the premiere of 'Gone with the wind' at Atlanta, because at that time afro Americans were not allowed in the premieres.

The producer of the movie was already informed he shouldn't bring that black woman to premiere.

He was highly embarrassed about how to say it to her... our lady saved him , by informing her inability to attend the show due to personal reasons!!!

Clark Gable, the hero of the movie and great friend of hers, could only clench his fist in anger... mmmm... in the ugly real life where racism was at its peak what could the reel hero could do!

Many were surprised.. when this lady was nominated for oscars for that movie in 1940!

And even more surprised when she won it.

First afroamerican lady nominated and won an Oscar!

In 1940 Oscar ceremony.. in her sky blue dress... she was beaming with pride with Oscar in his hand, for best supporting actress... yah.. the same blue dress she is wearing in the stamps.

But.. after that she got only very mean and lean roles.. so she had to earn her living through radio shows!!

Oscar is only a statue... we couldn't expect a fairy tale and could say she lived happily ever after.. all her tough times came only after receiving the award!

She willed her Oscar statue to the Howard university!

But do you know where is her oscars now?

Nobody knows...

It just vanished after a riot at the university... triggered by racial issue!!!

May be she was the first afroamerican buried in the Los Angels Rosedale cemetery... but i  have doubt whether she is pleased with these racial riots continuing till date!

But don't worry mam...

world is full of silly people...

So don't think about them... you had done your part in your movies and in life to perfection...

So rest in peace... dear HATTIE MCDANIEL!