Is the Mintsrel Show racist? Hmm, let's think about this. Um, YES. I'm a New Yorker living in the 21st century and even I was offended. The general concept of the show itself is one issue to analyze; the fact that a white man is going to the trouble of painting himself black and throwing on his best Alabama accent for comedic effect is a little ridiculous. What's so funny about the way someone else naturally looks and speaks? To make it worse, the white woman of clear status in the scene fires questions to which the "blackfaced" answers very unintelligently. Clearly, the implications are that southern, black men are not intelligent, and the audience can't get enough of the white entertainer mocking the man he is portraying. When the way another human being lives is being made fun of for the entertainment of others, there is clearly something wrong with society.
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