Shots In The Dark: Is This Racist?

Friday, March 31, 2006

Is This Racist?

An Alabama TV station has aired a segment detailing how members of an African-American community in Mobile have become convinced that they've seen a leprechaun hiding in a tree.

The website youtube.com has it posted, but apparently a lot of bloggers aren't touching it because either they think it's racist, or they think that blogging about it will make them look racist.

What do you think?

¶ 11:45 AM

Comments:

What everyone is tiptoeing around here is a simple question that I'm sure Dave Chappelle would have no hesitation in asking: what the hell is a bunch of black folk doing seeing an Irish leprechaun?

# posted by Anonymous : 2:02 PM

In a tree in Alabama, no less....

# posted by richard : 3:18 PM

Different state, same tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finian's_Rainbow

# posted by Anonymous : 12:38 PM

So is this thing a satire, or is it for real?

# posted by richard : 5:24 PM

I think it's a satire and we all need to LIGHTEN up .

# posted by Anonymous : 1:03 PM

Wouldn’t it be racist to think Blacks incapable of having a little fun at our expense?

# posted by Anonymous : 3:51 PM

Tsk..Tsk..

# posted by Anonymous : 4:49 PM

Tsk-tsk? I'm confused.

It has to be a satire, though. I mean...look at the drawing of the leprechaun. But I don't know whether it's trying to tap into our biases about African-Americans or biases about Alabama... Both, I guess.

# posted by richard : 10:05 AM

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# posted by Anonymous : 10:44 AM

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