!!THE VIEW TAKES ON THE JACKSON JIVE SKIT(HEY,HEY,IT'S SATURDAY)

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[11DovesBack]

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[csnu5]

"They dont treat aborigines so great either"..there are always 2 flagpoles in Australia....one is the Australian flag...the 2nd flagpole houses the Aboriginal flag .....Abstudy is a college govt handout to Aboriginal Australian college students which is a higher rate than the normal Austudy (college govt handout to white Australian students)...the Rudd Administration formally apologized to Aboriginal Australians on 13th Feb 2008...stop lookin for racism and blowing things out of proportion...

[kooriland4eva]

Its just shows you how much Australia has changed since the last time they did that skit on red faces,a friend of mine told me about when Louis Armstrong came out to Australia in 1963 0r 64 the racists fuckers wouldn't let him stay in any of the hotels so he had to stay with the salvation Army or some other charity organization while on tour in Australia....

[M3A35]

Don't treat aboriginies very well

Hand them houses for shits and gigs.

[fractalheadache]

At least Whoppie got it, good for her.

It seems that humour will die, and people will be too scared to open their mouths and communicate in the future because they'll be faced with the fact they might "offend" someone.

Those types who are easily offended offend me. I think there are far more pressing problems in the world than spending time commenting on something so trivial.

[ChordAbsolute]

@kooriland4eva your friend is lying, was he actually there at the time Louis Armstrong was at Australia? cos I couldn't find any story like that on the internet

[kipral]

@Piatasify It's not that we're unaware so much as we... don't put so much stigma on different colours. Don't get me wrong, we have just as much trouble with the whole 'different racial groups and skin colours' issue thing as anywhere else in the world. It's just most people - and I do stress 'most', bein' those who aren't either filthy rich, dickheads or politicians - simply don't give a damn what you look like. Though, I do understand why this upsets so many people, especially internationally.

[Piatasify]

Over sensitive americans and historically unaware ausies I'd say

[exuberantpeace]

@blissfullness93

That is so incredibly ignorant. Blackface is not offensive because it acknowledges color. Blackface is offensive because it was historically used to degrade blacks and satirize their worth. Why do we care in America? One, you were talking about a beloved Black AMERICAN family. Two, if Americans mocked the Aborigines "all in good fun", and then went on to pretend we had done nothing wrong--you'd have every right to be pissed.

[JessSuxBoloz]

I don't think americans understand what racism is, racisim is when you hate someone of another race not make a harmless joke. Get over it people, this isn't racist. They just dressed up as black people and sung a song, I really don't get what the big deal is. Americans can be quite rediculous when it comes to whats racist and not and will never live in a non-racist country until they realise how to not take race so serieously and see every race as the same, something that most australians can do

[razzamattazz]

@csnu5 Because that's why people choose where to live by the number of Aborigines in the area...

[hakaboy6924]

@MrMilanokas Harry was asked to judge the skit and in saying he knew it was done in jest he refused and explained why. As a American no right minded (or maybe only right minded person would judge or laugh at this due to the history of America. He is from New Orleans and as for the question of how is this racist it reminds Americans of the black and white minstrels when white actors would paint themselves to be black so no Black actor singer got work

[TheJameySuede]

I applaud Harry Connicks management for giving him that speech, as he doesn't want to get famous off white people's songs in the future.