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Originally posted by ktsnake
Saw Jimmy Kimmel tonight on a Man Show rerun. He was dressed up like Karl Malone, doing a bad imitation of Karl.
He was wearing blackface.
Now this was a rerun that was a few years old. I didn't hear of any protests or angry letters in the newspaper. To my knowledge, Comedy Central doesn't think they did anything wrong. Most likely, they are not even aware of what the skit could mean to some folks.
In contrast to this GSU incident which was perpetrated behind closed doors and then apologized for, I think that the Man Show's skit is a lot more egregious.
Why no outcry?
Why no calls for apology? Could it be that not one single person of color was offended by this?
I know this is an incident that is fairly obscure. However, the Man Show incident I saw tonight was even MORE obscure and more egregious due to its national cable audience.
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I hate it when people do this. Jimmy Kimmel dressing up as Karl Malone, in FULL makeup (which was not blackface), is Jimmy Kimmel picking at KARL MALONE, not at EVERY African American. The students at the university who dressed up in black face did so in the fashion of the old minstrel shows which stereotyped ALL African Americans as charcoal black, ignorant, with nappy hair and pink lips, and were HIGHLY offensive. You can't possibly think these two instances are the same and that they should warrant the same outrage..