Ironic Surrealism II

Obama the untouchable.

Lordy! Lordy! What the hell is wrong with these people?

Do those appalled even have a point?
No.
Are they race baiting?
Yes
Is it reverse racism?
Yes

Did ‘SNL’ Go Beyond the Pale With Fauxbama?
Lorne Michaels Defends Casting Of Non-Black Man in Sketch

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Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune put the question bluntly: “Call me crazy, but shouldn’t ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ fictional Sen. Barack Obama be played by an African-American?” Ryan went on to conclude: “I find ‘SNL’s’ choice inexplicable. Obama’s candidacy gives us solid proof of the progress that African-Americans have made in this country. I guess ‘SNL’ still has further to go on that front.”

Ok. Fine have it your way. You are crazy!

Hannah Pool, a writer for the Guardian newspaper in Great Britain, suggested the whole setup had “minstrel” overtones.

“Casting a black actor wouldn’t have guaranteed the quality of the sketch, but it would have made the whole thing a lot less shoddy,” Pool wrote. “Let’s get one thing straight. The moment anyone starts reaching for ‘blackface,’ they are on extremely dodgy territory. Anyone who thinks it’s either necessary or, for that matter, remotely funny to black-up needs to have the gauge on their moral compass reset.”

How dare SNL blaspheme the messiah. [roll eyes]

Todd Boyd, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California, says viewers might have a different reaction if the roles were reversed. What if, he says, “SNL” had cast a black woman to portray Hillary Clinton? “Do you think there’s ever going to be a day when we start casting Queen Latifah to portray Princess Diana?” he asks. “We just don’t have the same representations going in other direction“.

Like this impersonation of Jerry Lewis by Eddie Murphy?

Or the well known sketch of Eddie Murphy as Mr Robinson a take off of Mr Rogers?

What would be really funny is if SNL would reverse the races of Hillary and Obama. Have a black woman play Hillary and a white man play Obama in the skin color that God gave them. Sans makeup. Then go from there. That I would love to see.

Nobody much cared about Armisen’s racial background (he is of white and Asian heritage) when he played Prince and Steve Jobs during seasons past of the NBC show.

Nor did it seem to matter that “SNL’s” Darrell Hammond, who is white, has impersonated the Rev. Jesse Jackson for years.

Or that decades ago on “SNL,” Billy Crystal played Sammy Davis Jr.

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Armisen “is of white and Asian heritage”. Hellooooo! Obama’s Mother was white and his father was black.
So what we have is a man who is half white playing a man who is half white. There is more white in the equation than black.

Who will be the first to stand up to this outrage? It has been years and not a peep. “I guess ‘SNL’ still has further to go on that front” “Anyone who thinks it’s either necessary or, for that matter, remotely funny to” green-”up needs to have the gauge on their moral compass reset”.

Trifling fools.

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