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'The Spark' Episode 22: Hip-Hop on Capitol Hill, Chelsea Handler & More
Also, Congressman Andre Carson of Indiana shows us that hip-hop is alive and well on Capitol Hill! Plus, Amanda Diva talks why Chelsea Handler is NOT funny and more!
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By: Jazzy on 9/29/2010 8:46PM
First, let me congratulate Amanda Diva on her show and all the positive thing she's doing with it. It most certainly is a positive vehicle an I hope her success continues to grow! My comments are about a couple of specific people/things mentioned in Episode 22, Chelsea Handler and Will i.am.
Many people have mistakenly referred to Will's costume, at this years VMA's as "Blackface". Pure and simple, it was not! If you go back and research the history of blackface, what it looked like and represented, you'll find it looked nothing like, nor was it representative of anything similar to what Will wore or did at the VMA's. Whether you enjoyed his act or not is an entirely different issue, but it had nothing to do with blackface. Blackface was generally white "actors", with coal black and shiny grease paint covering their faces, white lips (sometimes red to make it look more clown like) and white paint encircling their eyes to make the black paint on the rest of their face even more pronounced. Most were dressed in tuxedos, in minstrel shows and acting as buffoons; aka shucking and jiving! While Will blackened his skin for his performance, that in and of itself has nothing to do with blackface nor did his act.
Now, for Chelsea Handler. I'm only going to say a little about her because what she says and does should warrants little time or energy. I'm responding here because I wonder how familiar with her Amanda Diva and her viewers are. Chelsea's antics, the butt slapping folks as they walked by, were, for her, merely a mild attempt at her mimicking and insulting blacks. If you read her book (but don't help her sales by buying it) you'll find that she consistently defines black people with the most vile and ways and with only the most negative of stereotypes. It doesn't matter what the circumstance, she finds a way bring a racist bent to each depiction. THAT'S the REASON to FORGET Chelsea Handler. She's anti black people. I'm sorry to say that I purchased her book (something with Vodka in the title) thinking it was a book by someone else. It was so offensive, that I not only put it down after reading a few chapters (I kept hoping it would get better) for the first time in my life, I saw value in the concept of book burning, at least hers!
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