Please tell me you saw the Flava Flav roast on Comedy Central.
Now I understand a roast is supposed to be politically incorrect and raw, but watching Flava's coon show made me extremely uncomfortable as a person of color.
Flava Flav is a universal coon. I know some of you are thinking, but these are just jokes man! The problem is that all of the jokes about Flav centered around him being a dark-skinned buffoon with a whole bunch of kids and not a lot of sense.
The thing about comedy is that there is always a grain of truth in the joke. And while Flav was hee-hee'in, it should have dawned on him that most of America, even his closest friends, see him as a tar baby whose baby-making skills make Shawn Kemp seem restrained in comparison.
Unlike a large percentage of black America (and white America), I am completely turned off by Flava of Love and all of the spinoff shows. People have done a lot of hollerin' and hootin' about BET's Hot Ghetto Mess...er, We Got To Do Better...but Flava of Love, Charm School and I Love New York set a new standard for COONIN'.
Flava's whole steel-o is just troublesome because he is far more dangerous than any caricature of black folks we've seen in entertainment.
His roast proved the vast difference between someone laughing at you and with you. People laugh at you, Flav. And, that's not a good thing.
Ha-ha hell, muthaf***ka.
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Did you notice Lisa Lampanelli called the Flavor of Love girls "nappy-headed bitches?"
I was cringing the whole time I watched. It seems the only one on that panel who really cares about him is Brigette, which is maybe why she had the most difficult time being funny.
Can't remember his name, but there was one white guy I wanted to sucker-punch, and Flav picked up on it too, b/c he did say the guys jokes were "straight up racist."
Alas, folks can still get away with quite a bit. Some talk radio idiot here said Michael Vick wouldn't be in the mess he's in right now if he didn't have so many black friends...yet another reason why I generally HATE sports talk radio.
Sad. Just damn sad.
that lisa woman made me turn the channel. i couldn't watch more than 3 mins. horrendous.
People of color, WAKE UP!!! PLEASE? We are in such a state of emergency, not just in America, but WORLDWIDE! We(..."the blacks, the Katrina victims,..."see Richards) are the masters at cultural mimicking, and that is just one of our issues; yet a MAJOR ONE! We have yet to establish our place as a positive culture in this society, so instead of trying to change that perception, WE try and do what we've seen other cultures do. Case in point, the Michael Vick saga. Caucasions over the years have been known to "support their own", even when they're dead wrong, and WE are attempting to do the same thing in many circles! Michael Vick may deserve the black community's support as an NFL qb, but to attempt to say that his entire case is a witch-hunt because he black, GET REAL! We need to stop fighting the wrong battles and maybe WE would see progress within the communities which need it most. Like the n-word, WE need to bury the thinking of "...white people did so why can't WE?"
p.s.- In case there are some who are still wondering why the FEDS are after Michael Vick, here is a news flash; MICHAEL VICK BROKE THE LAW!!!
I watched it.
Wow.
White folks...
Black folks...
Flava of Love Hoes...
Unbelieveable
Flava Flav I am sure hates himself and that fat drag queen heffa Sommore said "I did not know shit was a skin tone?!"
Hmm.
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