Posted on 11/17/2019 6:08:39 PM PST by Impala64ssa
In Portland, Oregon, at Reed College, a small liberal-arts school, a 4 decade old old ‘Saturday Night Live‘ skit by comedian Steve Martin recently caused an uproar over cultural appropriation.
In the classic Steve Martin skit, he performs a goofy song, “King Tut,” meant to satirize a Tutankhamun exhibit touring the U.S. and to criticize the commercialization of Egyptian culture. The skit is felt to be full on racist! Watch for yourself.
Steve Martin performs his funky musical parody “King Tut,” which satirizes the popularity of the King Tut exhibit. [Season 3, 1978]
Students in a humanities class at Reed College blasted the inclusion of the ancient skit in their coursework, branding it a vile racist example of cultural appropriation. They demanded that it be removed entirely. One student called the performance, which includes African-Americans clad in faux ancient Egyptian attire, as racist.
“The gold face of the saxophone dancer leaving its tomb is an exhibition of blackface,” the incensed student told The Atlantic. The Atlantic explains:
But many students found the video so egregious that they opposed its very presence in class. “That’s like somebody … making a song just littered with the n-word everywhere,” a member of Reedies Against Racism (RAR) told the student newspaper when asked about Martin’s performance. She told me more: The Egyptian garb of the backup dancers and singers—many of whom are African American—“is racist as well. The gold face of the saxophone dancer leaving its tomb is an exhibition of blackface.”
Such outrage has been increasingly common in the course, Humanities 110, over the past 13 months. On September 26, 2016, the newly formed RAR organized a boycott of all classes in response to a Facebook post from the actor Isaiah Washington, who urged “every single African American in the United States that was really fed up with being angry, sad and disgusted” over police shootings to stay home on Monday. Of the 25 demands issued by RAR that day, the largest section was devoted to reforming Humanities 110.
A required year-long course for freshmen, Hum 110 consists of lectures that everyone attends and small break-out classes “where students learn how to discuss, debate, and defend their readings.” It’s the heart of the academic experience at Reed, which ranks second for future Ph.D.s in the humanities and fourth in all subjects. (Reed famously shuns the U.S. News & World Report, as explained in a 2005 Atlantic article by a former Reed president.)
As Professor Peter Steinberger details in a 2011 piece for Reed magazine, “What Hum 110 Is All About,” the course is intended to train students whose “primary goal” is “to engage in original, open-ended, critical inquiry.”
Both sides were against her, since the day she was boooooorrrrn.
>>The gold face of the saxophone dancer leaving its tomb is an exhibition of blackface,” the incensed student told The Atlantic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbavuReVF4
BLACKFACE? GOLD FACE?
Has this stooge student ever seen an Egyptian mummy or the deathmask?
Reed is a everyone gets a trophy institution.
>>The Egyptian garb of the backup dancers and singers—many of whom are African American—“is racist as well.
So Sun Ra Arkestra are apparently now racist too with Sun Ra playing on ancient Egyptian gods and pharoah imagery and claiming to be from outer space (he is appropriating alien cultures as well).
Sun Ra in Egypt and Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5azChH6Z7QA
Space Is The Place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoNBMIbMDD0
Cher claimed 1/16th Cherokee after protests regarding her singing the song Half Breed.
I LOVE “King Tut”!
Shoulda won a Grammy.
If they thought Steve Martin was bad, wait until they see Blazing Saddles. :)
Cher is Armenian.
The yutes of today will tell you that banjo playing is also appropriation of instruments from Mother Africa.
If you try to explain that your roots too trace back to Mother Africa along with the rest of humanity you’ll be condemned as well.
That is STILL so hilarious and has me in stitches. I don’t think I’ve seen it in 40 years. It is just timeless.
I feel so sorry for kids today with zero sense of humor.
THE BED.....IS ON.....MY FOOT!
Hope they don’t watch Blazing Saddles.
King Tut is the villain on Batman on Decades today as well.
Watch ‘Blazing saddles’....
That movie could never be made today, and that is a shame.
>>THE BED.....IS ON.....MY FOOT!<<
You talkin’ about my mama?
Snowflakes be triggered by everything. In other news; the sun is hot.
Chopping up a few unborn babies always seems to cheer them up.
So was Mike Connors.
Well, excuuuuuse meeeeee!!!
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