The Daily Show: Bridging The <i>Scary</i> Racial Divide
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The Daily Show's Jon Stewart took a hard look at Senator Barack Obama's speech on race and found out a few things he wasn't aware of -- like the fact that some black people are angry. Stewart responds by setting the mobile alarm on his desk. He's then joined by Senior Uncategorized correspondent, Larry Wilmore, and they have a deep, meaningful discussion about race and the pet peeves blacks and whites have about the other. Like music:
Wilmore:"...Little pet peeve. Music."
Stewart:"Music. Sure, ok."
Wilmore:"Alright, now you guys have a tendency, you know, to ruin it. Sorry. You know, like jazz. You know, Miles Davis, Coltrane. You know.
Stewart:"Right, great stuff, great stuff."
Wilmore:"Yeah, you're welcome! But then you guys take it and turn it into Kenny G. It's annoying."
Hilarious!
Yup. Don't forget Little Richard to Pat Boone.
Please, blame us white folk for any other social ill, but not Kenny G!
I knew it! I knew it!
Black anger is due to jazz, the Twist, and the creation of the Big Comb (the white version of the hair pick)! LOLOLOLOLOL!
That was not only funny, it was very good and made a good point.
Do the Democratic strategists, DNC or DLC watch John Stewart?
If not, it should be required!!!
If I listed some of the pet peeves white people have chances are I'd end up paying for it.
Only The Daily Show could have pulled this off and made a great point
all the while making us laugh our asses off too. Great stuff as usual!
Well, MSM did it's job. By running with this story 24/7 Barack's polling numbers went down. But what about Hagee? Or McCains sucking up to Fallwel or Robertson. Didn't McCain once upon a time called them "Agents of intolerance"?
I don't know how much it advances the dialogue but it is funny stuff.
I just listened to Barack Obama’s speech on race and you know what? He won me over. There is something about him that I like. He confronts the issues straight on. He is a problem solver and that is what this nation needs. I think a politician yes, but he also has a heart and a bit of a fighter. We need both to preserve this nation! Listen to the speech and tell me what you think.
Sorry to go a little ot, but a McCain staffer has been suspended for releasing that video of Obama's minister. I'm sure there are other videos out there but apparently this particular release was by a McCain staffer. Just heard this on MSNBC
Speaking of bridging racial differences, Ron Jeremy Disputes Ferraro’s Contention That It’s an Advantage to be a Black Man
That recurring bit with the car door-locker is choice.
Pissed of patricia, As Elaine would say on Seinfeld,"Get out!" I thought it was Hillary.
P.D. @ 8:
The episode of Colbert right after this went right after that point, very effectively. It's funny, because it's something we've been reading on this and other progressive blogs for weeks since everyone started bitching about Rev. Wright. Colbert finally effectively ran with it. If only the MSM would.
BTW, and I mean no disrespect, but Larry Wilmore acts about as black as Wayne Brady. I do like the guy. But the TDS could diversify a little more and hire as many black "correspondents" as it does Canadian ones.
I thank Jon for acknowledging the need for maturity in our debates and issues! Finally!
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CD @ 6:
Maybe not. In my experience Americans do the same annoying or insufferable things regardless of color. Maybe if we stopped turning this into matters of what "whites" do and what "blacks" do as if they were different species we wouldn't be having this discussion of the importance of race. At the same time, we need to stop trying to "protect" people of other races by making commentary against them all but illegal. Nasty words hurt, yes, but we have to stop acting like children who can't handle an insult from somebody they don't respect and go running to teacher.
I know, I can't really talk very much. I may be a witch and bisexual, which are subject to ugly scrutiny by some jerks in the world, but I haven't had to go through the countless years of hate that blacks have faced. My memories are of verbal insults, and one or two suggestions of violence, but they put up with real, present danger every day of their lives. I think I understand why many people feel the way they do concerning this whole "race" issue.
P.D. @ 14:
If the McCain gang is already using their big guns, you have to wonder if they are fighting for McCain or Hillary.
Jon got it so right when he said Obama talked to us about race as though we were adults. And since that speech, we probably have all seen people who aren't adult enough to understand what Obama was saying.
mrplow @ 16:
He acts as black as most of us educated black people act. Its a matter of social circle, not "blackness"
Pissed of patricia, Well said. I couldn't agree more.
Liberal AND Proud @ 3:
The Twist? Hank Ballard the origanal recording and Chubby Checker the recording that went to #1 both Black.
Jon Stewart over Tina Fey hands down!
Can you at least give us credit for Bix Beiderbecke and Dave Brubeck, Larry?
If black guys are so scary why are they always the ones with bugging eyes and chattering teeth in the horror-comedies of the 30's and 40's?
naschkatze Hussein @ 23:
Hands down what?
If Tina's fey does that mean she eats carpet?
Clarence Page was on tv yesterday and talking about what things were like when he was a little black kid in the south. He said when he was visiting the south and about seven years old, he saw two water fountains and ran to the one that said "colored". He said he was disappointed when the water that came out was clear.
RayC Hussein @ 22:
Yeah...but the white people stole it! LOL! Ever look at old record covers of The Supremes...most of the center of the country didn't know those girls were black because of all the retouching on the covers.
It was all Barry Gordy's fault, but it was ok cause he was black! LOL!
Ok...I know I'm gonna burn!
deezus @ 20:
I am not a black person, but I honestly don't understand mrplow's comment. The individuality and personality of the Black people I know are just as varied as the White people I know.
Ahlyssah @ 18:
Pet peeves? ... I dont know .... its just ... well ... I guess I just wish maybe Americans would stop going into other peoples countries and blowing $h!t up ... there, I said it.
DC @ 10:
Well come aboard.
Go Obama!
Go USA!
Because we want our young country back in all its goodness and glory.
I really, really enjoyed this bit by Stewart and Willmore--inherently amusing and wickedly pointed.
mrplow @ 16:
I bet you're voting for mcsnowball.
Larry is a very good comic.
deezus @ 20:
Maybe there should be some special college course in how to act black. This is not the first time I have heard that ignorant statement. But then again I am not back so what the F**K do I know.
Ahlyssah@18
Are you kidding me? What does you sexual tricking have to do with African-Americans?
Get real mcnasty.
http://www.grimmy.com/comics.php
We aren't different species but we are different culturally, which I believe is a gift.
:-)
Actually this is the way many talks begin. I have resisted saying this but oneof my best friends is African American (I'm white) and yes she will sayi that about me. We have travelled together, shared hotel rooms, worked together and had tons of laughs and tears together, and know we have each other's back. We have had the OMG I didn't know that about whites/blacks moments, and it's really great when you get to the level of friendship and discourse where this can be talked about and no one takes offense or is uncomfortable. Over the course of some 13 years can ask each other anything.
One of the more funny ones was when I was talking about growing up and remembering that my mom always used the electric skillet to fry chicken. She had been raised to believe that white people don't eat fried chicken. (remember I'm 45 years od) Laughing I expressed shock and ask her if she hadn't noticed the big white head on the KFC signs.
She had, but until that moment she had not made the connection.
Her daughter is also one of my daughters best friends, and when my daughter went to a very white small private Christian high school (she needed a small school to succeed and our towns high school was too big). In her second year the only African American enrolled in the school.
He wouldn't believe that one of my daughters best friends, a friend she would spend summers with, was/is black. His doubt was even increased when she, my whiter than white blonde headed daughter, told him she could do cornrows (hey they would do girl things when they got together and that included hair!).
So she proceeed to do his hair. I think that whole first year she was the only one he felt comfortable around, or atleast didn't feel the need to watch his back around.
Wayne Brady = The Chappelle Show.
Then talk about Brady.
Who the hell is Wayne Brady?
pissed off patricia @ 40:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj0DbCBqF80
Obama and muslim dancers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tnYeAjGo_o
deezus @ 20:
I really enjoy Larry Willmore's bits. Whenever Stewart empathizes with the "black situation" as it were, Larry "betrays" those he supposedly "represents" and when Stewart offers up the white establishment view Willmore never hesitates to invoke the touchstones of the African-American experience---in every case delivered with a cmbitantion of ennui, despair and bitterness it carfeully balanced proportions.
The two of them never fail to illuminate the constantly shifting absurdites and tragedies of the black/white divisions and commonalites, often changing postion several times in each brilliantly contrived exchange.
The one "correspondent" I personally could do without is John Oliver.
Ahlyssah @ 18:
Humbleness is a good thing when dealing with things like this.
tHeGaMeHusseinOfLiFe @ 33:
I've been for Obama ever since Edwards backed out. I understand what you guys thought I was getting at, but that's not it.
I'm not saying if someone is educated they aren't acting black. And as I said before, I really like Larry. I just think of him and other black comics I'm fans of ie. Chapelle and Rock. Maybe it's his voice, I don't know. I'm not trying to rock the boat.
muftare @ 42:
Or better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTW_foa0ozk
44 CD
Witches capitalize the term, and spell magic with a k.
'K?
clytemnestra hussein orestia @ 41:
Britisher @ 43:
I've always thought that Larry and John had these type of conversations from the beginning. Both do a great job showing the over-simplification of race relations that is often perceived by one side or the other.
Besides John is one of my favorites. He gave me one of my favorite lines: "If Karl Rove knew he'd one day be forced to testify under oath about advice he gave the president, he'd have to limit that advice to things that weren't shameful, illegal or spectacularly boneheaded."
ysbaddaden @ 26:
"Bitch is the new Black" she is so right
Old Billy Hussein @ 46:
hmm that video said they will take Barack out 03:25
yeah I know it could be a ESL error .. but he went on to say "even from being in the senate or any position in the government. And you will see, just wait."
I wonder if the secret service has a copy of this
ysbaddaden @ 47:
Why are you telling me this?
Thegamehusseinoflife @ 35 Says:
Are you kidding me? What does you sexual tricking have to do with African-Americans?
Get real mcnasty.
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Number one, what the hell do you mean by "sexual tricking"?
Number two, I was pointing out that while I knida sorta know what it is for people to verbally attack me for my beliefs (which I will happily admit is something within my control, unlike my skin color), I realize that my experiences with people with superiority complexes probably can't amount to the attacks that many black people had to face, especially since I know I can go to the police if I'm attacked and expect results, something that was not an option for many blacks throughout the twentieth century (and in some parts of the US, possibly so today). That's ALL.
pissed off patricia @ 19:
Jon got it so right when he said Obama talked to us about race as though we were adults. And since that speech, we probably have all seen people who aren't adult enough to understand what Obama was saying.
Exactly. Which is why all the rightwinged nutcases ranted about the speech... without even listening to a single word of it.
ysbaddaden @ 48:
CD @ 52:
"I know, I can’t really talk very much. I may be a witch and bisexual, which are subject to ugly scrutiny..."
The bit about Kenny G was pure gold. :D
Of course I'm bisexual too
The only way I can get any sex is to buy it.
ysbaddaden @ 59:
Lucky you. I've never had any! But hey, until these college boys start growing up, I can take care of myself.
But I've been confused for some time. What term am I capitalizing?
Britisher @ 43:
DId you see Wilmore on the Sylvia's Restaurant story? OMG! "Jon, I'm in Harlem outside sylvia's...people are driving, and walking...on two legs! Just like white people!"
The whole skit is hysterical.
Ahlyssah @ 60:
The answer you seek grasshopper is in comment 57.
100 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON
clytemnestra hussein orestia @ 51:
David Broder's gunning for him?
The sad thing is that this sketch on the Daily Show is the closest thing to an attempt to have a sincere dialogue about race to come from the media in the wake of Obama's speech. Every other pundit has said one of four things:
1. The "above it all" journalistic approach - "Obama gave a speech about race. Here's a quote."
2. The "down in it" campaign-centered punditry - "How does this affect his poll numbers?"
3. The mudslinging approach - "He threw his grandmother to the wolves under the bus! He didn't distance himself from Wright! There's a contradiction!"
4. The nondescript praise - "Hooray, Obama said what needed to be said! We should totally have this talk at some point!"
But nobody is picking up the ball and running with it.
jfpbookworm @ 65:
Yes. NO One has the ballz to dialogue on even a race related comedy sketch....LMAO!!!!
(Head Turn)........NAZI GOLD!!!!!
Is Wayne Brady gonna have to smack a bitch?
:-D
ysbaddaden @ 62:
Um, was it "talk," "ugly," or "scrutiny?" Sorry if I'm a bit slow on the uptake, I just didn't realize that I was using terms that are apparently generic among Wiccans.
Jay @ 67:
Oh, god, that was so funny. Especially that he was so uncomfortable saying it!
OT but inspired by Obama's speech.
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Hey, don't blame me! I had enough sense to know I have NO rhythm and NO soul, so I stay AWAY from musical instruments altogether.
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The racial divide is growing even wider. Obama is digging himself a deeper racial hole with each passing day. Today, Obama said his grandma is a "typical white person" because she harbored prejudiced feelings about blacks. Obama is turning himself into a public relations disaster. He is plummeting in the daily tracking polls. The RNC will have tons of ammo when they prepare their anti-Obama political ads in the general election. Endless loops of Rev Wright and Obama making stupid racial remarks. There will be blood.
abob @ 73:
And?
It's not that they harbor it or hide it, it's always there.
I had a white woman tell me that the n-word wasn't racial, then proceed to tell me about her n-maid.
We got tons on clinton and mcsnowball points and vids just from this week. I know you get off on dirty tactics and far fetched notions but Obama will come out just fine. Your racism and your lack of comprehension are remarkable.
The only blood will be from your daddy (limpdick or hannity) bloody ego.
Look how upset you get when Obama speaks truth.
Damn, the repug blogs must be lonely, not too many hatemongers left.
I believe you associating your bisexuality to African-American is way off base.
The association would ring true if you compared your mistreatment to the mistreatment of transsexuals.
Let's keep all the sexual shit under one column.
That was an outstanding segment.
I always get a chuckle from the mere fact that they have a Senior Black Correspondent. That could get tiresome if the segments weren't funny, but Wilmore always delivers.
tHeGaMeHusseinOfLiFe @ 75:
Uh, did you not READ? I was saying that I COULDN'T talk because the verbal crap I've dealt with does not really compare to what they've faced. I know it's not fun to face insults from people who think they know better, but I also know damn well that the scale of what I've heard is nothing like what the parents and grandparents of my black friends went through. I was acknowledging that my comments did not apply to them.
By the way, the "sexual tricking" comment? Yeah . . . I've never had sex. So if you mean to imply that I'm a slut using trickery to lure men to my bed, you're just showing ignorance like the republicans you seem to hate so very much for making baseless accusations.
abob @ 73:
If this country isn't ready to wake up now, it will be someday, abob. You realize that you're on the wrong side of history, right?
pissed off patricia @ 19:
I look forward to adult politicing.
gemHusseinpei @ 79:
I should clarify. I look forward to politics that come from mature adults. Though not holding my breath, I hope getting rid of the present administration moves us towards that. I hope Obama's speech is the start of that.
not that any of this matters
the wingnut shows and their followers are joyous in their new ability to attack blacks and obama
they are orgasmic
Yeah - it's not like Grover Washington or Herbie Hancock took the music of Bird, Prez and Lennie Tristano and turned it into crap.
I'm a black guy. I didn't think the sketch was funny at all, and actually made me uncomfortable. One of the most serious moments on the Daily Show since the first post 9/11 episode. I've lived overseas for the past 6 years and this all reminds me of so many things in the US I don't miss; how we often talk about each other, and how difficult it is to deal with each other face to face without judgment (and why that sketch was on the money).
I felt that Pastor idiot Wright was an example of how the media points the camera to the most idiotic people the black community produces and keeps it on them while ignoring the level headed guys. Also, interesting how little of Obama's speech I saw in the media's coverage, and how they overplayed that idiot Wright's rant, prior to the little they played of Obama's speech. While forgetting that the speech was also a response to Ferraro's comments earlier that week.
Very clever; this is the type of humor that Fox viewers just don't get.
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