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Old 11-03-2003, 03:31 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: the black comics on BET's Comic View

Originally posted by lordsalt
although i'm not an avid watcher of the show's BET Comic View, whenever i happen 2 land on the channel it's usually the same jokes by different comics. white people r usually targeted and stereotypically (if a word) imitated by their way of talking, dressing, decision making and so on down the line. its been going on for years, but i'm just wondering can these jokes be labeled as racist? if the situation was turned around and mtv or other cable networks had a comedy show and blacks were subject to the same stereotyped humor from non blacks what would happen?

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It personally doesn't bother me when they are showing the differences between groups of people for fun, like when a comedian says a white person tends to do this or react to a situation like so, whereas a black person does or handles it this way. Like Cedric talking about how we does run feh cover at a moments notice in public, cuz is true!.....I know it's not completely right, but the sad thing is, sometimes that sh!te does be so true. It's hard to be mad at the common truth. But when the comedians just start going off on tangents, make fun of another group of people based on stereotypes alone, that's crossing the line. Dat ain having no place in public.

But, havent' you noticed, black comedians have found a new race of people to target: Middle-Easterners, Moslems, and any and every race of people who get a jingoist association with terrorism since 9-11. That crap has me more pissed off than anything. We spent so much facking time in history combating racial profiling, and these fackers turning round and putting the same sh!ite on another group of people? What a bunch of faackery.

One famous black comedian yelling for security when he saw a "towel-head" on his flight. Another famous comedian in his concert movie yelling terrorist! at a man walking down the street in a clip (I' m being nice to not name names, but y'all may have seen it). These stupid idiots would be the ones to mistake a Guyanese Indian for a Middle-Easterner :

There is a new racism in America, and it's killing me that our comedians, our people, in complete ignorance, have gobbled it all up.
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