I'm an untraveled, unwordly MidWesterner with all the general failings and virtues that that implies. Let me get to the point: The recent Bishop posts and those of Coochie Monster have greatly confused me as they seem to have the same style of humor as, say, boston james. I'm just not used to this. I cannot believe that a black guy could write that Oompa Loompa parody related to the black porn dwarf. This is really challenging my experience and is making me finally face once and for all that I am simply a redneck and a garden variety racist. Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Martin Lawrence, etc....those are my points of reference. Black Dennis Millers turn my worldview UPSIDEDOWN. It's one thing if a black man makes quiet dignity and elegance his schtick, like Sidney Poitier, but when blacks begin to employ comic irreverence that is borne of witty references and verbal dexterity rather than emotion and pandering low level satire, well, I'm set adrift. A black guy who describes porn as a "pretty hate machine"? I just can't fathom it. I have a desire to, and I believe that deep down I am a good, kind person, naive and openhearted. But if the consensus here is that my attitudes are iredeemable, I'll accept that and just go on as before. I have no close black friends. I knew one or two in a rural high school. I drank and did drugs with a handful over the years. I've seen a myriad of them on television and the movies and in music. And I've also heard that Beethoven was mulatto.

Thanks,
simp

I think anyone with an education and popular culture knowledge can pull off comedy. Dave Chapelle, Chris Rock and a couple other's I can't think of off the top of my head prove that. Black culture has been crucial to the role of music and comedy in white North American culture for almost a hundred years.

As far as I know Bishop has an excellent education and can be quite well spoken. If Coochie Monster is black he is very sharp for any race group. Comedy knows no racial boundaries.

Simp do not feel ashamed. i have not actually divulged my racial identity but i do like to stay well versed in all aspects of "popular culture." I do understand what you are saying. Let me see if i'm translating this properly: You have only met a handful of black people and that you do find some of them funny, as long as they are dangling from trees by rope? Let me know if i missed anything?

God made us all different so we would have someone to fight.

Anybody who likes Monty Python is ok in my book.

SPAM

I love Bishop for posting whatever he wants and not feeling like he has to post any specific way to please anyone but himself, like when sammura first said he wasn't posting like all blacks should , what a load of shit. Why would you want to post like someone else?, be a sheep because you share the same skin colour?. Whats the point in that?. You can't find something funny or post about something just because you're black?. Maybe im black?

My heart is Black on the inside...and dead....

But I am picking up the standard of the only true minority-group-that-matters, crippled perverted fuckers. Screw all these politically correct Dr Phil-therapy-sharks who want society to "accept" us....If I am accepted, I can't be angry, hypocritical and aloofly-perverted, and that is unacceptable to my Black Heart. And yeah, although Bishop can be as annoying as Salt & Vinegar potato chips during a oral herpes flare-up, I admire his Independent "I am Me-Fuck you cuz I am ME" style...Someone run over Little Pimp with a golf cart to help Bishop out.