Talk:Stepin Fetchit

message: Fetchit → Perry – In some places in the text, the man is no longer "Fetchit".  We now recognize that the term is overtly degrading to a man and to a entire people.  Certainly, that the biography mentions his conversion to Islam indicates that it was a profound spiritual conversion. Obviously, he personally left that part of his life behind him after some point.   Please allow the text to reflect that highly likely fact.
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*Support. Amorrow 02:26, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, I did not ask to rename the page.  I just wanna change two places near the end of the text from Fetchit to Perry.  You got this guy as a slave, and you are never gonna let go of him, are you. Amorrow 23:23, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested change in text 

message: As per Wikipedia is not a collection of lists, I have again reverted the edits  by anonymous vandal  (who never adds a summary to their edits), reduced the Filmography section to just the films that have Wiki articles, and renamed it to "Selected filmography" ... people can click the IMDb External link at the end of the article to see his full filmography with links to information about each of the films. 
I have also used 19xx tags for the years of the films, something that 24.15.217.4 does not appear to understand, since they seem to think that just linking 19xx somehow has some encyclopedic value ... they have removed or reverted the "year in film" links in other articles as well. 
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thread_title:  Selected filmography 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Stepin fetchit.jpg

message: I'm not sure about the source that claims Stepin Fetchit converted to Islam. But I just read an interview with him dated 1971 in which Stepin proudly speaks of how he had been a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church his entire life. 
Source: Joseph McBride and Stepin Fechit. "Stepin Fechit Talks Back." Film Quarterly. Vol. 24, No. 4 (Summer, 1971), pp. 20-26.Spacelord (talk) 06:28, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convert to Islam? Are we sure? 

message: Maybe I'm just misreading the article, in which case possibly someone can add some clarity, but there appears to be a contradiction regarding his stage name. In the Early Life section, it says "He performed a vaudeville act with a partner, with the two of them being known as "Step" and "Fetchit." When Perry became a solo act he combined the two names, which later became his professional name." So he got the name Stepin Fetchit from his vaudeville act. Then just three sentences later it says, "According to his entry in Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia, he borrowed his screen name from a racehorse that won him some money in his pre-Hollywood days." So he got the name Stepin Fetchit from a horse he bet on. Both read as a statement of fact, but clearly they can't both be correct. Superman7515 (talk) 15:17, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless he knew of a racehorse named “Stepin Fetchin,” and he and his partner decided to split the name into two for their vaudeville act, in which case he could have recombined the names for his stage name.  I’m not saying that this is true—I really have no idea—all I’m saying is that, if this is true, then your claim that the two statements “can’t both be correct” would not be correct.  (Again, I’ve no clue whether both claims are true, only one of the claims is true, or neither of the claims is true.)  allixpeeke (talk) 12:05, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stage Name Contradiction 

message: He apparently stopped making movies during this period, which is quite lengthy, but the article doesn't provide any reason for this.  Perhaps someone out there can add an explanation of this to the article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.34.0.203 (talk) 02:58, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  1954-1971 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Can someone please add a reference which backs up the claims that this person was of Jamaican heritage because the "other sources" which state that his father was from the Bahamas seems to be the ONLY source provided and therefore nullifies the un-referenced claim in the introduction that he was "of Jamaican heritage". 
Also seeing as the mother was from the Bahamas perhaps it would be appropriate to state that clearly in the Early Life section rather than putting the name of the city alone to further reinforce the illusion of Jamaican heritage for people who have no idea where Nassau is and might assume that it is in Jamaica given the statement that he is "of Jamaican heritage" in the introduction.
Lastly if some evidence can be found that the father was Jamaican then the claim in the introduction is still incorrect as it fails to mention his Bahamian heritage so perhaps "of West Indian heritage" would be better if the claim can be verified. Iynx (talk) 06:52, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jamaican? 

message: The article makes this point.....NPR claims it (without a source)...but is there really solid evidence of this? As a parallel: this is also claimed frequently about Amos & Andy. But the evidence there is mixed. (See the article for more info.) I just find it difficult to believe (in the 1950's). To be sure there was activism by organizations and publications (like the NAACP) against this sort of thing.....but the NAACP didn't/doesn't speak for all African-Americans on all issues.Rja13ww33 (talk) 21:44, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Really reviled by (a majority of) black Americans at the time? 

message: "In 1930, Hal Roach signed him to a film contract to appear in nine Our Gang episodes in 1930 to 1931. He was in the 1929-30 film A Tough Winter; his contract was cancelled after its release. " Do these two sentences refer to the same contract? That is, was his agreement to appear in Our Gang terminated after he appeared in A Tough Winter? Was there something about the latter film that changed the studio's attitude towards him? --Khajidha (talk) 12:10, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind. I modified it based on the A Tough Winter article. The previous version didn't even make it clear that ATW was an Our Gang film.--Khajidha (talk) 12:14, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contracts