I can partially agree with your opinion that we as a people (African-Americans) can be touchy about certain situautions. However, I think that we mostly get that way when the comments are coming from
outside of our community. The thing about Barbershop, in particular, may be that people got their britches in a bunch because most of the comments were negative AND from members of our own community.
I haven't seen the movie, but I assume that the comments are being blown out of proportion. To be perfectly honest, I would think that Cedric the Entertainer was just expressing the comments of many older African-American men. I'm not saying that they don't respect Dr. King, Rev. Jackson, Mrs. Parks, and others. We all know that our elders can be quite comical when it comes to certain subjects.
It was all said in fun.
I know that Al Sharton is going ot pull out the big guns on this one.