Comments on: Blackface Act Backfires on Aussie TV Show

By: Al Jolson

Al Jolson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:20:34 +0000

verything seems lovely when you start to roam
The birds are singin’, the day that you stray
But wait until you are further away
Things won’t be so lovely when you’re all alone
Here’s what you’ll keep saying when you’re far from home

Mammy, Mammy
The sun shines east, the sun shines west
I know where the sun shines best

Mammy, my little Mammy
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy
I’m comin’, sorry that I made you wait
I’m comin’, hope and trust that I’m not late, oh oh

Mammy, my little Mammy
I’d walk a million miles for one of your smiles
My Mammy, oh oh

Mammy, my little Mammy
The sun shines east, the sun shines west
I know where, I know where the sun shines best
It’s on my Mammy I’m talkin’ about, nobody else’s

My little Mammy
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy
Mammy, Mammy, I’m comin’
I, I hope I didn’t make you wait

Mammy, Mammy, I’m comin’
Oh God I, I hope I’m not late
Mammy look at me
Don’t you know me? I’m your little baby
I’d walk a million miles for one of your smiles
My Mammy

By: D

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:09:22 +0000

I didn’t find it funny, but I certainly didn’t find it ractist either. I’m part maori, and I grew up with shows like Billy T James and such, so maybe I just don’t find a lot of well-meaning entertainment as anything other than that.

The world is PC gone crazy.

The fact is, Harry said they don’t like to make black people look like baffoons, right? Well if you watch ANY show featuring African Americans, they do a damn fine job of that themselves. Not only that, but they make white people to be dumber than sh*t. So you tell me that skit was racist after all the ‘dumb and dumber’ mentality in African American shows, and a good many other sitcoms.

If you wanna say this is racist, well then so are all those sitcoms. So are most movies.

This is just craziness.

By: Clint Flick

Clint Flick — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:54:54 +0000

“Why are people so unkind” Nobody seems to care that the programme was disrespectful towards Kamahl. That’s bordering on sedition.

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=445569

I know someone who said something negative about the great Kamalesvaran and soon after broke his arm. Beware the curse of Kamahl, kumbayah!

By: Boyd

Boyd — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:25:12 +0000

so lets enslave white people, treat them like sh*t, rape their women. then when they start suceeding we’ll do ‘parody skits’ ‘for a laugh’.
I’m sure they’ll laugh with us also, because after all ‘history has nothing to do with it’, neither does the ‘colour of their skin’, because it’s ‘just a joke’.
Get real. racism is racism, accept what it is and enjoy your laugh.

By: SteveFari

SteveFari — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:12:16 +0000

I say who gives a sh1t. It’s ok for comedians to make fun of race, it has been the bulk of their humour for decades. It’s all good for a black comedian to make fun of white people but why is it so bad when the opposite is done?. People need to calm down and realise it’s not big fukn deal and just have a bl00dy laugh.

By: Daniela

Daniela — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:39:43 +0000

What about the movie “white chicks’? oh that’s ok because it’s black dudes dressed up like paris hilton; it is just the other way that’s uncool. Toughen up people!!
I’m an immigrant women and my race is usually “other” while in my home country is “none” – Can I have a Nobel prize please?

By: Stu

Stu — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:40:39 +0000

Hey Harry, don’t be so precious!
And how arrogant to perport to represent all of America in “being offended”. This level of preciousness & arrogance coming out of the US (esp by celebrities & American media) is what is causing many of the worlds problems.

By: rich American white girl

rich American white girl — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:53:08 +0000

Wasn’t funny at all. Blackface seeks to demean, mock and ridicule the racially unique features of black people. Very disappointed in the Aussies and others who approve, are those who do really, really so blind to how hurtful this can be? Held you all in such high regard until I saw the skit and read some of these comments….

By: D

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:55:32 +0000

Fiona – In case you didn’t realise, I was quoting something Paul wrote a few posts back. Don’t worry, I don’t intentionally inflict harm or hurt onto other human beings.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:32:00 +0000

R – when you talk about Genocide are you talking of this Genocide in New Zealand?
http://www.worldhistoryblog.com/2008/01/genocide-of-moriori-on-chatham-islands.html

By: Fiona

Fiona — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:25:20 +0000

D – Racism is not confined to colour. Racism is a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
Racism, vengence and hatred are traits and attitudes our children learn from us – don’t teach it to the young, and why intentionally inflict harm or hurt onto another human being?
This defies logic.

By: Sarah Dearing

Sarah Dearing — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:18:06 +0000

Yes, this was racist.

And if the show’s producers had spent 30 seconds on an Internet search when this idea was first proposed, they would have learned why Americans are hurt, angered and disgusted by it. This is one of the worst ways to offend, in U.S. culture.

By: D

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:00:41 +0000

Paul “most white people dont know what racism is, cause they have never experianced it. Wake up ignorant white, middle class fools!”

Cheers mate. We have experienced it now. How does it feel being on the other side?

By: Clint Flick

Clint Flick — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:28:51 +0000

Oh like a Curly Latin kinkies
Oh Lordy, Lordy, mixed with yellow Chinkees, yeah
You know you lump it all together
And you got a recipe for a get along scene…

Blue Mink had the answer, thankfully the Chinese were gracious and didn’t all jump up and down at once.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:43:28 +0000

And by the way- I’m white. I don’t think it’s so much racist as it is stupid. We live in such a complex world, can’t we keep the simple things simple? It’s just totally unnecessary.