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Saturday Night LiveMonday, March 10, 2008 What’s With SNL’s Obama Blackface Minstrel Routine? by Nanette
"[T]he simple fact is that blackface and minstrels and house Negroes are dangerously wild and crafty memes that have been laughing at intent and virtue for over 140 years. Anyone who has been paying the slightest attention to race in America knows that these are the sort of images that tend to slip out of a user's grasp almost immediately, so deliberately handling them constitutes a form of willful recklessness." Ebogjonson, a year or so ago, after the spate of White liberal bloggers thinking it was oh, so cool and clever to dress up politicians and pundits in blackface, to make who knows what points. With predictable results. I literally paused with my cup of coffee halfway to my mouth Sunday morning when they played the clip of the previous night's Saturday Night Live skit. All it was lacking was the rolling eyeballs, showing the whites of the eyes and a couple of "Oh Lawsy, wut we'z gon' do, Miz Hillary? Save us poor dumb black folks!" to make it complete. Well wait... they had that, just in updated language. Maybe ebog should do another spreadsheet, this time for the media and (apparently melanin challenged) comedy shows.
Posted by Nanette on 03/10 at 10:30 PM
blackface • I'm old and crabby and I have a pen • FP • Politics • SNL • Stupid People • (7) Comments • Permalink • Tell-a-Friend |
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