#209. The Blue Collar Comedy Tour

Black people know humor. Pop in the DVD of Coming to America for a Black person, and you'll have them hooked for the next two hours and in a deep, humor induced trance of epic proportions.

The lineage of humor in the Black community stretches back to the the early slave narrative, when one Black slave would entertain the others, behind their masters back - as depicted in the movie Life - and can be seen at full display in the Richard Pryor sketches of the 70s, the Eddie Murphy SNL skits and the subesquent movies he would make in the 1980s.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence filled the void when Eddie Murphy made horrible movie decisions in the 1990s, and then came Chris Tucker and his role in Friday, and the subsequent Rush Hour franchise.

You might say that Black people now have the ultimate funny-man entertaining them exclusively, as Tyler Perry and his TBS shows and movies - that usually star him in drag - have become all the rage in the Black community. It is hard to find a white person who actually has seen a Tyler Perry movie or show, but Black people incorporate his programs and movies into their daily diet of Sprite and BET.

Black people find Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle funny, but our uncomfortable with some of their performances in the past, which Black people justly believe help to perpetuate negative Black stereotypes. Rock and Chappelle, though Black, fail to be Black enough in their comedy, as the only positive symbol of comedy in the Black community is making fun of whitey, not pointing out the problems that plague the Black community - which mainly consist of Blacks themselves.

However, one form of comedy Black people find offensive, if not downright irritating, is the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Comedy Central's white answer to the Black phenomenons known as Def Comedy Jam and The Kings of Comedy.

Black people find the Blue Collar Comedy Tour a form of kryptonite, and like when Black people hear classical music, run in the opposite direction or quickly change the channel anytime Black people are exposed to the vile message that the four white guys who contribute to the Blue Collar Comedy Tour spew.

Those four white guys include the uber-redneck jokester Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and Ron White. Combined, this fearsome foursome - to Black people - crack jokes about middle America, the South, rednecks and everyday mishaps. The bulk of the jokes revolve around lower-class white people and their ways, but all white people find the Blue Collar Comedy Tour funny, even if they wear white collars to work.

Black people don't like this one bit. Anytime white people show racial solidarity, as Black people did when voting 96 percent for Mein Obama in 2008's presidential election, Black people are uneasy and smell the pungent odor of racism.

When four white comics come together, under the "accusations-of-racism" force-field, known as the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Black people are weaponless and are deprived of name-calling - their equivalent of a nuclear weapon in the on-going war against white people that they are waging.

The Blue Collar Comedy Tour is seen as a revival of sorts by Black people, where white people come together for humor and conviviality. Never is negative word spoken of Black people, but the paranoid nature of Black people leads them to believe anytime white people congregate together, a lynch mob isn't far from forming.

The only jokes delivered at the Blue Collar Comedy Tour consist of "You might be a redneck if....", or "Get er done". No jokes at Black people's expense, just jokes at white people's expense.

Stuff Black People Don't Like will always include the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, because four white guys cracking jokes to an entirely white audience is too much whiteness for Black people to handle. And even though the jokes aren't racial in nature, white people laughing and having fun without the help of any Black people is seen as a major offense to all Black people, for they are the ultimate form of entertainment.

Even though it's called the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Black people still see it as the White Comedy Tour, a title they would never, ever allow.

#296. Peaceful Block Parties

A block party is a great way to get to know your neighbors in a congenial environment, full of fun, food and frivolity.

It's a chance for your kids to meet new neighborhood kids, throw the football or baseball around and talk about the latest gossip in the community with friends and family.

For Black people, block parties offer a chance for something much different: extreme violence. The typical block party in the one of US News and World Report and CNNMoney.com's best places to live in America would include fun, food and frivolity and white people.

Block parties in the black community normally include basketball, beer and extreme violence, such as this one in Miami:

"Bright pink, blue and green balloons hung from a party sign welcoming hundreds of young adults to the birthday celebration in Miami's Overtown neighborhood Sunday night.

They sipped drinks and danced as the DJ spun rap music. The party spilled onto Northwest Fifth Avenue, where it looked more like a parade than a party.Bullets fired from high-powered weapons sprayed the crowd. Witnesses and police said the shooting, which began about 12:45 a.m. Monday, lasted several minutes and stretched over several blocks as the shooters fled.

In Concord, North Carolina but a few days later, Black people were celebrating together in another block party gala and the party ended much the same as the one in Miami, with violence:

"...Officers said a fight at a block party led to multiple people firing guns around 4 a.m. Saturday. Keyarre Miller, 20, was killed. Three others were shot on Ervin Avenue.

As of Sunday afternoon police said they still had dozens of people to interview and still had no leads as to who is responsible and involved in the shooting.Miller's aunt was one of nearly 100 people at the party. "I ran to take cover," Stephanie Graham said. "And then I heard somebody say my nephew had got shot. And when I ran outside, I saw him and his girlfriend on the ground."

Not be outdone, but a block party in Columbia, South Carolina ended in even more violence, as Black people continued a streak of three states, three bellicose endings to block parties:

"A Saturday evening shooting left seven people injured and police searching for a suspect.

The Columbia Police Department says around 10 pm Saturday, they received a call of shots being fired on the 2200 block of Waverly Street. Police say it was the scene of a street party.

Officials say seven people were shot with a handgun. All of the victims have non-life-threatening injuries. Police say the majority of the victims are under the age of 25."

All of these three stories are but a glimpse into the block party lifestyles of Black people and all occurred between the days of July 1 and July 14, 2009. All occurred in different states, with different Black people and yet produced the same outcome: violence.

Worse, the violent endings to Black people's block parties is not geographically isolated to the south, as in New Jersey - at the end of June 2009 - Black people engaged in yet another horrifying ending to a block party:

"...police yesterday charged a seventh alleged Bloods gang member with murder in the death of a 13-year-old city girl earlier this month.

Police said 27-year-old Sex Money Murder member Michael Jennings was part of a deliberate plan to target rival gang members with a drive-by shooting at a North Ward block party that missed its intended targets and killed Tamrah Leonard"

Interestingly, one of the few Black people block party events that did not end in bloodshed was a Hollywood feature that starred Dave Chappelle, Block Party. It seems only Hollywood can create the illusion that so many Black people know is false; Stuff Black People Don't Like includes peaceful block parties, because four block parties -in four different states - full of hundreds of different black people - in a one month time span - all ending in violence, equates to Chappelle's movies ending being a myth.

#82. Jokes at Their Expense

Black people are an extremely proud race of people. They look at each other with solidarity and have an intense structural endogamy that helps to create an intense brotherhood, which helps them traverse the polluted waters of American race relations in post-Obama America. Take for instance the recent decision to welcome the whitened Michael Jackson back into the tent of Blackness and universal brotherhood, most eloquently defined by Jamie Foxx at the BET awards:

"We want to celebrate this black man - he belongs to us - and we shared him with everybody else....It don't matter what he looked like ... what his nose looked like ... it was what he sounded like,....Who was the best?" [the audience]"Michael!"

Regardless of how strange or bizarre Black people might behave, the principle of Black unity will always outweigh the criminal wrongdoing of an individual Black person, when the sanctity of the race is at stake.

Take for instance OJ Simpson, a man who most people believe brutally murdered two people and subsequently was acquitted of any wrong-doing. After the acquittal, Black people were filmed celebrating this monsters release back into the world. Why? Because Black people believe in solidarity and will never waver from a racial cohesion. Black racial pride is almost an oxymoron (this principle will be explored in a later post).

Keeping this principle in mind, Black people take great offense at the slightest joke at their expense and view an attack on one as an attack on all Black people. Any joke or mention of an obvious stereotype around a Black person, and you will soon be in the cross-hairs of all Black people.

Even some Black comedians get in trouble with other Black people. Take Chris Rock for instance, a popular comic with both white and Black people. His famous niggas vs. Black people skit makes all Black people cringe, despite the fact that he is lampooning a significant segment of the Black population (see Black KKK article in Playboy). Rock states:

"You think I've got 3 guns in my house 'cause the media outside? When I go to the money machine tonight, alright, I ain't looking over my back for the media: I'm looking for niggas!"

Even Bill Cosby got in trouble with the Black community for daring to point out the obvious, when it came to the ssubstandard levels of fatherhood and utter thugdom that was and is being practiced in the Black community. He wasn't even joking, but was discussing facts, which Black people like to call "hate facts", because they disparage the Black community.

Black people, being a proud race that is resentful of any outside criticism - especially from white people - will protest any joke that is told about them as racist and intolerant. Racial humor, which is allowed and encouraged by Black people from Richard Pryor to Dave Chappelle, is a major no-no when conducted by white people towards any allegedly oppressed people, because it is a continuation of cultural imperialism.

Take for instance the epitome of white people - in Hollywood's eye - Michael Scott of the TV show The Office. In an early episode he gets in trouble for performing the Chris Rock skit:

Kevin: Basically, there are two types of black people. And black people are actually more racist, because they hate the other type of black people. See, every time the one type wants to have a good time, then the other type comes in and makes a real mess...

Michael: (unable to remain sitting and quiet) I'm, okay, I'm, I'm sorry, (looks at Mr. Brown) I'm sorry, he's ruin.., he's butchering it. I, I'm, could you just let me, every time, (starts impression) EVERY TIME BLACK PEOPLE WANNA HAVE A GOOD TIME, SOME IDIOT ASS...(BLEEP)

Mr. Brown: Whoa, whoa, whoa now.

Michael: I TAKE CARE OF MY KID! (BLEEP)

Mr. Brown: Wait, wait, wait a second, you don't need to go there. Okay? Please stop it, stop it, stop it, please stop...

Michael: THEY ALWAYS WANT CREDIT FOR SOMETHING THEY SUPPOSED TO DO.

Mr. Brown: STOP IT!!!!

Jokes about anything that would resemble a negative stereotype of Black people is forbidden by anyone, even by someone in the Black community. Take for instance the horrible thought Black people can't swim. The CDC reports that:

"The Centers for Disease Control lists blacks as an at-risk group for drowning. A CDC study found that blacks drown at a rate 1.25 times higher than whites. Black children between the ages of five and 19 drown at a rate 2.3 times higher than white children in the same age bracket do."

Despite facts that back up "jokes" and create stereotypes in the first place, Black people find any attack on one, an attack on them all. Black people are extremely monolithic in thought and the best advice when dealing with Black people is to refrain from any type of jocular speech, which can be misconstrued as hate, when you are in their company. Stuff Black People Don't Like will always include jokes at their expense.

#22. Saving Money for the Future

One of the most important books ever written, The Richest Man in Babylon, is ostensibly not to be found on most Black people's bookshelf. USA Today has recently published a shocking story regarding the un-niggardly mores of Black people and their lowly savings rate.

Black people are not fond of saving money, when compared to their white counterparts:

"African Americans are more than twice as likely as whites or Asians to take a hardship withdrawal from their 401(k) plans. The withdrawal rate also was higher for Hispanics, although not as high as African Americans'. Asians had the lowest rate....African Americans and Hispanics also are much more likely to take money out of their 401(k) plans for emergencies, which could further stunt long-term savings growth. And they are less likely to invest in stocks in favor of low-risk investments and real estate, increasing the risk that their savings won't keep pace with inflation, retirement specialists say."

The article would go on to state:

"Since 401(k) plans are now the primary retirement savings tool and the savings disparities are so significant, it's apparent that minorities are likely to retire with less financial security, said Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments."Without a significant effort to improve savings and investing behaviors, African-American and Hispanic workers are in danger of retiring into poverty," she said in a statement."

Black people, based on this study of 401(k) plans, have the innate ability to save, although it would appear, according Alicia Munnell, that:

"African Americans and Hispanics also are less likely to inherit money than whites, Munnell says, which leaves less of a financial cushion against hard times. As a result, she says, these groups have a tougher time putting money in a retirement account and also tend to be more cautious about investing in the unpredictable stock market.

Minorities also may be held back by family obligations, says Monique Morrissey, economist at the Economic Policy Institute. If a worker comes from a demographic group that has been disadvantaged over generations, she says, the individual is more likely to be responsible for family members."

Taken into context, don't these quotes about inheriting money and the purported disadvantaged groups just further substantiate the idea of innate inability to save money among Black people, if they are unable to have any money to pass on to their progeny, it would lead any sane person to infer from the available data that generations of Black people have never saved money.

Black people haven't just started not saving money, as this USA Today article would want you to believe, but have always been against saving money, hence the reality of generations of Black people without money to inherit. No one saved any in the previous generation.

Dave Chappelle, the comic Black people don't like, has shown us in a hilarious skit what will happen when reparations are finally given to Black people, and the results fit in nicely with the reality of "delayed gratification" that Black people seem to not like either.

In the skit from his hit-TV show, Chappelle lampoons Black people who have recently received reparations:

"...Chappelle reparations skit, where blacks blow it all on trucks of menthol cigarettes, gold chains, FUBU, fried chicken, and so on was in essence what would happen. In something approaching amazement, he asked me if I was aware it was satire. Of course, but only in the aesthetic particulars; the wasteful splurging with no thought of tomorrow was obviously what would happen, just as with lottery winners."

The idea of "Delayed Gratification" is not just a nefarious stereotype of Black people, as the USA Today published study on Black peoples inability to save - conducted by Hewitt Associates - proves. Black people, as one prominent psychologist has written, display:

"The impulsiveness component of psychopathic personality includes an inability or unwillingness to delay immediate gratification in the expectation of long-term advantage. The first study to demonstrate differences between blacks and whites in the delay of gratification was carried out by W. Mischel in Trinidad in the late 1950s. He offered black and white children the choice between a small candy bar now or a larger one in a week. He found black children were much more likely to ask for the small candy bar now, and this difference has been confirmed in three subsequent American studies. This racial difference has been noted but given different names by different writers. In The Unheavenly City Revisited, Edward Banfield writes of the “extreme present-orientation” of blacks, and Michael Levin writes of “high time preference,” an economist’s term for preferring cash now rather than a greater sum in the future."

Black people live for the now, epitomized by the idea of "Get rich or die trying" which is the ethos for the Black community. Black people will continue to view saving money for the future as Stuff Black People Don't Like and will continue to blame others for the generational problems.

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#125. Dave Chappelle

Yes. That Dave Chappelle, one of the funniest comedians of the 21st century, is also part of Stuff Black People Don't Like.

His hit television show, The Chappelle Show, was for two seasons the a part of the culture zeitgeist and a phenomenon unlike anything previously seen in the fledgling Comedy Central's programming.

The show gave the talented Dave Chappelle a platform to eviscerate racial stereotypes and showcase the importance of tolerance and an ending to racism and bigotry, through the medium of comedy.

Such skits as The Niggar Family, The Racial Draft, Blind Supremacy - featuring Clayton Bigbsy-, White people's favorite "safe" comedian, Wayne Brady and a myriad of others attracted cult status. Soon, White people began to snicker and actually agree with many of the stereotypes that Chappelle was trying to bring to social awareness. College-age White people were walking around and shouting the catchphrases of Rick James and Lil' John, in the guise of, "I'm Rick James, Bitch," and "What?" and "Okay!" The omnipresence of these phrases began to wear on Black people and fearful that White people would actually start to question the stereotypes and negative images of Blacks that Chappelle displayed in his show as truth, a plan was hatched.

Prominent Black people decided Chappelle had to be ceremoniously lynched. Al Sharpton, Bill Cosby, Jesse Jackson Robert Franklin and Oprah Winfrey went on the offensive to destroy Chappelle's career and to once and for all stop him from perpetuating negative images of Black people.

Chappelle left the show after two financially lucrative seasons, amidst the filming of season three. The Black Mafia was able to quell the damage done by Chappelle, just in time for the 2008 election.

So a paradox exists. Dave Chappelle is very popular among Blacks, but the dichotomy of poking fun at Black people and having White people not only laugh at Black people, but also reinforce the negative stereotypes was too much. The subject matter of his humor has left prominent Black people firmly on the anti-Chappelle side.

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