I was thinking about this topic this morning…not about Django, but about a columnist’s complaint that a white man using a Jamaican accent in a Volvo commercial was racist.
As a black man, I find some of these racist allegations frustrating and the reality more than a bit embarrassing. We (as Black people) ofter represent ourselves in most egregious situations in the entertainment field. We give ourselves license to do and say vile, disrespectful things about anything or anybody, but that’s ok.
We allow black males to be portrayed as cool…_as long as they’re “streetwise”.
Or foul mouth rappers representing money, ass crack and “hoes”.
Let’s not forget our Black women usually portrayed as loud, aggressive slang slinging bitches.
(Yet we’re always the cleverest people in group situations.)
You hear nary a peep from the black community.
Let a white man say anything that merely hints at possibly being disrespectful to black folks and all hell breaks loose.
Perhaps I shouldn’t be “airing our dirty laundry” in a public forum, but…
…what’s wrong with this picture?