Now, I see, ace has become the arbiter of what is and isn't racist because he is
A black man! I'm so glad
A black man could be here to tell us that it's clearly not racist because
he, again, as
A black man, laughs at it!
I'm so glad that your representative sample of
ONE can tell us it's not racist, because you,
A black man, laugh at it.
Just for record, just because my girlfriend laughs at "get back in the kitchen!" doesn't mean it's not sexist.
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Next, you'll be telling me that this:
with the caption "No Easter Egg hunt this year!" isn't racist because... get this.. black people stereotypically like watermelon. Don't you see, it's satire! HA HAH! Look at that silly stereotype!
One of my favorite persons in the world is Melissa Harris-Lacewell. She recently said the following about the witchdoctor/Carter stuff:
Quote:
"But I'm concerned in the age of Obama, too many of our public conversations about policy have been limited to a kind of investigative effort to determine whether opposition to him is based on race or substantive disagreement," she told CNN. "The problem is, it can be both."
Harris-Lacewell points out that Obama made his African father a part of his campaign narrative. Now his critics are trying to mock that heritage.
"This witch doctor image is racist in a very specific way because of his proximity to Africa," she said. "You can imagine there would have easily been a time when [Jewish New York Mayor Michael] Bloomberg would have been portrayed in anti-Semitic ways. You can go back to political cartoons when Irish Democrats were mocked, Italians were lampooned."
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It's worth thinking about.