Below is a link of a comedy sketch... The product is called Niggerette... Now Niggerette is supposed to stop a reasonable black individual from being a 'nigger'... Below is the link... Watch the vid...
Now initially I laughed, but soon after I thought about the idea of what I was laughing at. Is this the kind of 'humor' that perpetuates the social racism that I myself as a black woman has to face? I think sometimes it's hard when you find things comical, but then realize that the material could possibly be taken another way from people outside of your race.
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I found that video very disturbing. Especially how he used the tragic case of Amadou Diallo as joke, to explain how this "product" got rid of stereotypically "black" tendencies. I was appalled at the variety of things said and how a person of color participated in an "ad" that makes it "ok" to joke about racial stereotypes as well as reinforces their presence. It is easy for me to imagine how many people could be unknowingly effected by these images and statements. The blatantly expressed side-effect of a desire to be "white" shows the perpetuation of false racial differences and stereotypes.
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