WWW: The White Women's Workout; or So Funny, It's Kinda Sad

I saw this video and was torn -- it's actually laugh out loud funny, but also incredibly sad, particularly as I inhabit my black male skin daily.  Certainly media, including music, movies, television (both the news and television shows) and even art to a certain degree (and the Reagan administration) has helped to perpetuate the idea of the menacing black man.  But at the same time, this manages to skewer the sheer absurdity of a monolithic idea of black male menace (as well as monolithic ideas about any group of people).


I'm reminded of how one reviewer remarked on the sheer absurdity of the title of Nella Irvin Painter's The History of White People.  As if, all people could be alike.  But I digress -- watch this video because it is really funny and as comedy does, particularly good comedy, it (should) make you think about the way the world generally, and American culture particularly, has constructed (and continues to construct) blackness and black masculinity. 

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