Furthermore, Hooks also talks about how stereotyping and the concept of invisibility is made aware through the black imagination. For example:
‘Blacks, I realized, were simply invisible to most white people except as a pair of hands offering a drink on a silver tray.’ Reduced to the machinery of bodily physical labor, black people learned to appear before whites as though they were zombies, cultivating the habit of casting the gaze downward so as not to appear uppity. To look directly was an assertion of subjectivity, equality. Safety resided in the pretense of invisibility (Hooks 30).
In this instance, the stereotyping isn’t blatant, it isn’t directly accusing a race of certain, preconceived notions, but rather it is a subtle and subconscious …show more content…
Within the video there are three black men wearing traditionally frowned upon clothing in a bad neighborhood talking their lives. In one part of the skit, one of the men say, “I got like ten bitches man...my dog walking business is bubbling!” This scene is meant to force the audience to make negative assumptions on what the man means by ‘bitches’ because of his blackness. By stereotyping the black man in a bad neighborhood, white people will automatically make the connection that anything he is talking about must be unpleasant or pestiferous in some way. However, the great part about this skit is that it flips the racist stereotypes upside down by showing that the man was referring to dogs, not girls. Furthermore, by having these assumedly lower class, black men participate in upper class, white lifestyles, it forces the audience to reevaluate their stereotypes in a humorous way. SNL perfectly showed how people of color see how white people perceive blackness throughout this skit in such a way that leaves no room for people to be offended or …show more content…
Many Redskins fans will argue that the name is, in fact, not racist because it is part of their culture too and that Native Americans shouldn’t be offended because it’s just a name, they shouldn’t take it too seriously. In fact, one Redskins fan featured in the video had stated “Do you know any Native Americans? Am I not a Native American? Was I not born in this country?” This perfectly demonstrates how whiteness allows white people to see other races as if we are all on the same playing field and then, when people of color disagree, gives white people the privilege to silence them as well. This specific Redskins fans symbolizes how whiteness allows people to think that we are all the same, even though white people haven’t a clue the type of hardships people of color
‘Blacks, I realized, were simply invisible to most white people except as a pair of hands offering a drink on a silver tray.’ Reduced to the machinery of bodily physical labor, black people learned to appear before whites as though they were zombies, cultivating the habit of casting the gaze downward so as not to appear uppity. To look directly was an assertion of subjectivity, equality. Safety resided in the pretense of invisibility (Hooks 30).
In this instance, the stereotyping isn’t blatant, it isn’t directly accusing a race of certain, preconceived notions, but rather it is a subtle and subconscious …show more content…
Within the video there are three black men wearing traditionally frowned upon clothing in a bad neighborhood talking their lives. In one part of the skit, one of the men say, “I got like ten bitches man...my dog walking business is bubbling!” This scene is meant to force the audience to make negative assumptions on what the man means by ‘bitches’ because of his blackness. By stereotyping the black man in a bad neighborhood, white people will automatically make the connection that anything he is talking about must be unpleasant or pestiferous in some way. However, the great part about this skit is that it flips the racist stereotypes upside down by showing that the man was referring to dogs, not girls. Furthermore, by having these assumedly lower class, black men participate in upper class, white lifestyles, it forces the audience to reevaluate their stereotypes in a humorous way. SNL perfectly showed how people of color see how white people perceive blackness throughout this skit in such a way that leaves no room for people to be offended or …show more content…
Many Redskins fans will argue that the name is, in fact, not racist because it is part of their culture too and that Native Americans shouldn’t be offended because it’s just a name, they shouldn’t take it too seriously. In fact, one Redskins fan featured in the video had stated “Do you know any Native Americans? Am I not a Native American? Was I not born in this country?” This perfectly demonstrates how whiteness allows white people to see other races as if we are all on the same playing field and then, when people of color disagree, gives white people the privilege to silence them as well. This specific Redskins fans symbolizes how whiteness allows people to think that we are all the same, even though white people haven’t a clue the type of hardships people of color