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.”
Well the children really wouldn’t like David Allen Coles “If That Ain’t Country”.
They were communicating so well, then heterophobia reared its ugly head.
Bully for Cher. This is America, everybody is 1/16 of something.
I’m 1/16 North Carolina Cherokee and I look about as blond white bread as you can look. My cousins on the other hand got the high cheekbones, all jet black hair, authentic enough to make Elizabeth Warren green With envy.
Do I have enough Cherokee blood to be allowed to make jokes about Indians? Or does my blond hair disqualify me?
Can you believe this???
No joy in these kid’s hearts. They have been hollowed out by years of indoctrination.
These kids can go into a closet and suck eggs.
And I hope they find no jobs at all.
They don’t deserve it or to be part of our society.
Cause they’re Insane.
extra credit for klantifa activity
but hard to validate with the black hoods and all
(except of course when the Prof is leading the section)
The left has totally lost any sense of humor.
Mel Brooks could not have made any of his movies today.
Priceless. Remember watching it when it first came on definitely a ‘ground breaking’ skit.
Zippity do dah, Zippity day...
Funky Tut!
Humanities majors should be unfunded by the Fedgov. Those studies and majors serve to build more “snowflakes” and kill the joy in our children, not to mention they are at laughed at by employers. I suspect Frosty the Snowman will be shunned because he’s white, but with black coal eyes. Where are the frigging parents as their kids are being indoctrinated?
The “Camp Fire” scene
Is Offensive to
Olfactories!
Aw, man. I was wanting to watch a video of the snowflakes’ meltdowns not the King Tut video.
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