Why doesn’t a black celebrity step forward and say enough of this endless cycle of loud mouth idiocy and colorful stupidity and demonstrations of senseless silver screen subjugation?īefore anyone can write a comment saying white people portray themselves as clowns as well it should be noted that the buffoonery portrayed by white people on the silver screen is more than adequately countered by the heroic image of the noble white people coming to save the day in nearly every story captured on film. Why does someone have to do it? Why can’t black people as a collective make the choice to not stoop to buffoonery and hold out for the sake of their dignity and the dignity of our community? If we didn’t have so many black people willing to sell their souls and the souls of our black children in order to be portrayed as some white person’s patsy we wouldn’t have so many black people standing in line to become the next patsy for white people. But ask a black person why black people choose to buck and jive on the silver screen in modern interpretations of yesteryear’s minstrel shows and inevitably the answer will be somebody’s got to do it. Obviously the excuse that somebody’s got to do it just doesn’t cut it. Okalee dokalee, would you like northwest pine or fresh baby powder for your visit to the gas chamber?
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Uh…yeah…let’s just go ahead and get that electric chair charged up right now, okay? Ma’am, could you tell us why you ran your car off the cliff and into the ocean with both of your children inside? Somebody’s got to do it.
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Sir, could you tell us why you had to murder everybody in that family? Somebody’s got to do it. Somebody’s got to do it is a particularly insufficient and woeful defense for anything. Too often these people justify their collaboration with five little words somebody’s got to do it. But then there were other black people would don the costume of ignorance and simple mindedness without a care in the world. I’m sure there were black people who did their shucking and jiving with a smile on their face but a very caustic, bleeding wound in their soul. Black people joined in the white man’s parody of black people in order to make some very good money. This satire of the satirist became a synonym for black people’s inability to understand civilized society. White people became imitators of black people who were imitating white people.
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It doesn’t take much imagination to see how this form of humor would appeal to people of African descent.īut white people seeing black people’s lampooning of typical white behavior and the success it generated took the satire a step further. The portrayal of the white people would satirize the slave owner’s aloofness and overall inability to comprehend the simplest of things. In order to vent their frustration on their mistreatment slaves would return to their quarters and entertain each other by imitating the supposed to be civilized, high society behavior of white people. There is a theory that minstrel shows are rooted in the enslaved black people’s ridicule of white people.