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Originally Posted by Afrekete
It's just a difference in what I think is entertaining/funny versus what I don't. I don't think he's disgracing "black people" at all. I think he and the other people on the show are disgracing themselves. But then again, I also think the women on The Bachelor are disgracing themselves. Television in general has just gotten retarded and it seems like people will do anything for a little shine or to hold onto their tenuous bit of fame.
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I hear you BUT respectfully disagree. The "Step and Fetchit" remark has a "tone" of disgust with his "character", based on IMDS's biography of Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (aka Stepin Fetchit)
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While Stepin Fetchit was undoubtedly one of the most talented physical comedians ever to do his shtick on the Big Screen, achieving the rare status of being a character actor-supporting player who actually achieved superstar status in the 1930s (becoming a millionaire to boot), his characterization as a lazy, slow-witted, jive-talkin' "coon" offended African Americans at the time he was a major attraction in motion pictures (primarily the 1930s) and still offends African Americans in the 21st Century, some half-century after he had faded from the screen.
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Hey, I'm just breaking balls. It's all good. Of course you're entitled to see it however you see it.
... but I am one of those people entertained by Flava, the Bachelor, Survivor, American Idol, and other reality crap. I don't know what it is, but some of it is just mindless entertaining dribble, good drama ... and plain funny!
