“I’m dying in this fucking country-assed fucked-up town!”

That’s the plaintive… okay, angry… okay, slobbery… rant of a local reporter who just touched tonsils with an insect the size of a Hummer…and reacted on tape.

When I viewed this on Saturday June 14, the YouTube channel “documentedignorance“’s copy of the news-only tape had gotten over 25,000 views. They seemed to rush out to brand repurposed content as their own by slapping on a logo so other YouTube viewers would see it.

Other copies of the same tape had close to two hundred thousand views. And then there is the techno-recut-remix.

But most fascinating to me is the hybrid news/techno/re-headered remix:

The titles say:

“Documented Ignorance Presents”
“The Oreo Reporter That Goes Ghetto”

Of course, “Oreo” is a term that means “black on the outside; white on the inside.”

Right below the video viewer is a small pane that gives the related source material. It says, “This is a video response to `Reporter Turns Ghetto in 3 Seconds.’”

Both of those titling of the same recycled material say a LOT about what people are SEEING when they see the video….

Not just humor, but racial humor… or… at least race AND humor.

What do you see when you see the video? Yeah, this is a pop quiz. But do you think it’s just funny? Not funny? Funny AND racist? Racist but NOT funny? Racist only when a racist watches it but not when the enlightened “I” watch?

If the shit is actually funny, does it matter if by forwarding it you might increase the chances of someone who is really really super-racist being able to find it on You Tube? Or is that not your problem?

Anyway, you get the point…
Now, what do you think?