'Daily Show' Proves That Race Is, Indeed, Still A Tricky Subject (VIDEO)

[applegrove]

'Daily Show' Proves That Race Is, Indeed, Still A Tricky Subject (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/daily-show-proves-race-is-indeed-still-a-tricky-subject_n_3719816.html

(TX4Obama posted this last night. It is so great I'm reposting it for today's DU- Applegrove)

[1monster]

1. I realize that this is comedy and the video does make a point, BUT ...

if you are going to have a discussion about race, why would you separate the participants on the panel by race?

The very idea of a DISCUSSION on race would be to have both or all races (I prefer ethnic groups to the "r" word) talk together to exchange experiences and understanding.

Segregating a discussion on race by race is at best nonproductive.

[applegrove]

2. So that both sides would be more open I think. And it did show the different life experiences

of aas vs whites. And it did show white blindness to the struggles aas face every day.

[brush]

3. It's telling though . . .

how the white moderator was so visibly uncomfortable being the "only one" in a room full of people. She didn't even know how to begin, whereas the African American woman moderator took charge and jumped right in with a good starting-point question.

To me this shows how African Americans have learned to navigate comfortably, albeit warily at times, in the white world but many whites self-segregate themselves so much they don't really know how to deal with people of other races.

That's what I noticed about the video. That and the one white woman who said she had been stopped and frisked — at the airport. Talk about clueless. She had no idea its seems, what ugly 4th amendment-violation scenario the moderator was referring to.

Regrettably we live in the same country but in two different worlds.

[1monster]

4. Except this was scripted. It wasn't real. It was done to be funny or cute.

It was meant to make it look like white people are clueless (and perhaps most are) about the facts of life for African Americans.

But if you keep the different groups segregated when discussing race, those clueless ones are never going to catch on.

[brush]

5. Funny? Scripted?

Maybe contrived with the set-up, but not funny or scripted to me. Those people weren't reciting lines, they were answering the questions that were asked.

[applegrove]

6. Samantha Bee, the white interviewer, was pretending to be scared. That was a put on. And you know

the daily show always goes into their sketch interviews with a view to how it will end. They set up the scene and the mood. But even though it was scripted a bit, the people's reactions were very true and it was very telling.

[brush]

7. Didn't realize the context of the video

Didn't know it was supposed to be funny. I don't watch the Daily Show.

[brush]

8. Didn't realize the context of the video

Didn't know it was supposed to be funny. I don't watch the Daily Show.