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TWiB! #13 - Black, black, blackity black.

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http://thisweekinblackness.com

The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present the 13th installment of the series "This Week in Blackness." After the historic election of President-Elect Barack Obama, it seems that some people don't like the idea of referring to him as BLACK. Comedian and host of TWiB, Elon James White, has something to say about that.

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  • "His voice sounds like oppression" lmao omg

  • The "post-racial" dialogue confuses the concepts of racial acceptance and racial blindness. It's cool if a person wants to self-identify without reference to race, or if (s)he identifies with each component of their racial heritage (a la Tiger Woods = "Camblasia"). But, this notion that Obama is not black is laughable. First, Obama self-identifies as black. Second, according to the one-drop racial schema that has dominated this country for hundreds of years he's Black. Third, have you seen him?

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  • Holy crap! Your "Pompous White Guy" voice is just spectacular! You really should consider voice acting or something, man!

  • I somehow missed this episode, just watched. You are the best, basically saying what I usually want to say but don't have the right words to say it with. It's clear, concise and hilarious. Wish I could play this to every "post racial" idiot.

  • Hey Elon, Come out to Boise and visit your white boy Leil. Bring cookie monster with you. Would be one helluva stage show

  • Biraciality is a relatively new privilege of identity, and certainly was much less common in Obama's generation. People who insist that being Black is somehow denying his heritage bleary have no grasp of history. Saying he " chose to identify as Black" suggests that he would have had the equal option to identify as White ( and we all know the nuthouse that would have landed him in.) Perhaps it was less about choosing one side over another, and more about deciding to live as a WHOLE Black perso

  • Obama is biracial...he & everyone else should except that. His white mother raised him...does he have to deny his blood from her just to make everyone happy? But, yeah, in America he's black, lol.

  • What would happen? ... Pretty much the Tea Party.

    /sad like tears

  • "He just stands there and a Starbucks opens!!!!" LMFAO!!!!!!!

  • "you're half-white, you have some of us in you so you can go!" hahahaa...hahahhah

  • ahh, Jane ur soooo right! lock n load!

  • Oh dear lord, I can't stop laughing....

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