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.
