BluntlyPuts: NIGGA News

BLUNTLY PUTS:NIGGA NEWS
by Felecia COleman

Comedy Central, one of the funniest yet disrespectful stations on Cable TV lost my vote due to down right disrespect a couple weeks ago. I mean, its no surprise when I turn on Comedy Central and see South Park making fun of different races, religions, and genders but there has to be some line that we cant allow this station to cross. I mean, I can only laugh at so many “so there’s a black guy and a Hispanic in the back of a car. Who’s driving?” jokes before I take it personal. All of the Black jokes, Jew jokes, Hispanic jokes, and Asian jokes, all of them are funny until the underlying message sinks in, but recently, I feel as if Comedy Central went below the belt and personally offended me.

I’m talking about their new show “Chocolate News”. Starting with the name of the show, I already feel disrespected and as if my race is nothing but a joke. Maybe it would have been funnier on BET, but the fact of knowing that some Caucasian prick that owns Comedy Central actually allowed for the name of this new show to be called “Chocolate News” is extremely degrading. I mean seriously, is it me, or does this just seem like a way of dancing around “Nigga News”?

Second, the host of the show is David Alan Grier. Seriously, Comedy Central? He’s the corniest black guy in the universe! His career started to go haywire after Jumanji and maybe that’s why he felt it was suitable for him to sell his soul to Comedy Central. Not only is his undisputed retired comic relief a problem with him being the host, but the fact that Comedy Central hired the most white-loved black man, besides Wayne Brady of course, to take on this racist challenge makes me feel like this show isn’t meant to be for black people to laugh at Black people, but for white people to laugh at Black People. What a great representative and way to go, David Alan Grier. Fuck you David Alan Grier and your already fucked career. Not only do you make yourself look like an ignorant jack ass but you make the African American race feel like shit too. Thanks, thanks for that. Well look on the bright side. At least now you’ll be remembered for something more recent and not just seen as “oh, oh yeah, that uhm, that corny black guy on In Living Color. What‘s he up to now-a-days?” Way to boost your career and your struggling fan-base you idiot.

Not only is having David Alan Grier a butchering to the African American image, but the actual content on this show is ridiculous! I have never seen more downright racist puns in my life! There are clips with David Alan Grier referring to women as hoes, clips with David Alan Grier in a music video talking about big asses, and tons of other outrageously stereotypical jokes that I find offensive. The audience for Comedy Central is predominantly white and is it okay for Comedy Central’s only “all black” TV show to only show the negative sides of the African American Culture? There was a clip I watched with David Alan Grier disguised as a typical rapper with a big hoody and shades talking about how he was killing, stabbing people, shooting people, being shot, and being married multiple times and I feel like these are topics that should be left for serious recollection and not used as a comedy skit. Are there not already enough clueless Caucasians in the world that think all black people do is rob banks, steal cars, and make video’s? Thanks to this show, that list will be increasing.

I feel offended but more so embarrassed that there’s even a black man in the acting business who would degrade his own race like this and feel fine at the end of the day, cause I sure as hell don’t. Especially at a historical and monumental time like this. Barack Obama is about to win the presidency of the United States and Comedy Central coincidentally decides to air a Black comedy show? Fuck outta here. Comedy Central took it too far with this one, dedicating a whole half an hour to the newfound comedy in the black world of problems. Fuck you Comedy Central and your attempt to find humor in the shootings and killings of the black people I personally know and that my friends personally know. I didn’t think it was funny when friends and family of mine got shot, killed, stabbed and I don’t think its funny now that it’s on your station. Like I said earlier, its only funny until the message sinks in and the fact that there’s even room for laughter at the subject matters Comedy Central exploits makes me sick. Making fun of problems that my family struggles with as an African American household isn’t humorous and this is 10 times worse than any other racist-filled Comedy Central show. We, as a race, have to draw the line somewhere and if I’m the only one that feels that way then so be it, but this is one NIGGA who WILL NOT be tuning in to the NIGGA NEWS.

GO BARACK.

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Stay Blunt,
Felecia Coleman