Chappelle, I had to finally make a comment

I thought I should make a final post and what better topic than my final paper, Chappelle's Show. I was finishing up with my research paper in which I was examining a couple sketches from the show. I revisited the show so that I could accurately comment on my paper. I haven't seen the show in awhile now, despite watching it feverishly when they came out on DVD...the show is gold. It is still as funny as it ever was...maybe more. I did my paper on Clayton Bigsby the black white-supremacist and the white family whose last name is "Niggar". Both of the sketches are so ridicuos, man what gems. Chappelle really had a clear vision where he wanted the show to go and did he ever execute. There were some other sketches that I forgot about. Anything with Paul Mooney is gold. The one I particularly enjoyed was him commenting on movies. "They have the Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise, the Mexican starring Brad Pitt. What's next the Last Nigger On Earth starring Tom Hanks!?" That line gets me every time. The way Chappelle uses humor to make genuine, intelligible, relevant social commentary is masterful. I laugh but the skits do really make me think about things, not many shows do that, even serious ones. Chappelle has a unique ability to take humor and real issues and infuse them together without being to preachy about it or that he is trying to demonstrate his values or ideas...you've got to appreciate talent like that. I realize I'm probably beating a dead horse here being that everybody has already spoke about the show at length at some point this semester but I just had to toss my two cents in.

Catch A Tiger By The Toe...Cheesy

I've been reading a lot of blogs about Tiger Woods, so I thought it prudent to weigh in with my thoughts on this whole debacle. I am already quite sick of this controversy and just wish we could move on to new business already. I get it he was married and he cheated with a slew of women. I realize that Tiger is a public figure so I understand that it is a news story, I just wish it wasn't. His story is no different then the same stories you hear on Jerry Springer. Being that he is such a celebrity it warrants huge amounts of press coverage but I feel that he should be entitled to privacy, let alone dignity. I think what he was did was reprehensible but that is his own private business, what right to "we" have to invade him like this. People are so eager, dare I say happy, to disparage him. Two weeks ago everybody loved him and now they are calling for his head on a pike. It seems that the human condition is such that "they" build you up but once you get there they can't wait to tear you right back down. It just bugs me how people are so mistake-free and self-righteous, they have never made a mistake. I don't agree with Tiger but at the same time I am not judging him either. It is life and he can live it how he wants, who am I to comment on it. I genuinely feel bad for the guy. Despite his actions, I don't feel anybody deserves to be berated the way he is. Also, not to be a stickler, but nothing has been directly outright proven one way or another. It bothers me how this is the most important thing in the news right now, a guy cheated on his wife....how shocking. I'd be willing to bet that there are far more pressing issues that warrant news coverage...priorities people!

Another thing that has gotten on my nerves lately is the accusations that Tiger is racist being that the women he allegedly had the affair(s) with are all white. It's ludicrous, he can't just simply cheat on his wife, the race card must be brought into it. I think the news organizations are really stretching it here. How is having a sexual preference or affinity for now something considered racist. Its like if he had slept with black, Asian, and Latino women it would have been far more acceptable and politically correct. I mean his wife is white, is that racist because he didn't choose a wife that "looked for like him". I mean think this is the opposite of racism being that he had affection for a race that "wasn't his own". It's not like he was negative towards any particular race. I think this is a sign that the news has to move own, they are just grasping for straws and trying to squeeze every last bit of life out of this story. The guy is ruined, mission successful. Let's move on to some new business!