Archive for May 16th, 2006

Race and Comedy

by Gary Moskowitz, Jessica Jones, Brad WagnerWhen people of color joke about or comment on stereotypes of their community, is that spoofing racism or helping perpetuate it?

guilty til proven innocent

A man coerced into confessing to murder in 1996 will be freed after DNA tests found the blood of another convicted murderer in prison.
“Mr. Warney appears poised to join a roster of people who confessed to crimes they had not committed, a phenomenon whose size has been one of the startling revelations of the [...]

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Winston McCuen thinks black people are savages. He even admits that slavery was a good thing.
To McCuen, black people deserved this sort of taming because they are from the jungles and, as a whole, obviously genetically inferior.
“Intellectually, yes they are,” said McCuen to a local news station. “This has been confirmed over and over, [...]

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