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.”
Pryor apparently wrote Mongo’s stuff.
Garret Morris : “Lord and Lady Douchebag!”
I wonder if they are triggered when a store advertises a “White Sale”?
I bet Erik the Awful wouldn’t set them off.
Meanwhile The Streak is only one lefty judge away from being civil rights.
Yes! And — “Baseball been bera bera good to me.”
Tut..Tut, dancin’ by the Nile,
Tut..Tut, da ladies loved his style!
Tut..Tut, rockin’ fo’ a mile,
Tut..Tut, he ate a crocodile..
He gave his life...for tourism.
Just watched it, I found it very inclusive, especially the dancing girls.
Folks, our leaders of tomorrow have spoken. Aren’t we all proud?
;^)
I have always loved this skit. Concerning young people of today: They simply have NO sense of humor whatsoever. This is actually satire; but, it is lost on them. I cannot imagine gong through life without any sense of humor. No wonder they are always so upset and angry. What happened to them that they never developed any sense of humor of any sort.
Oh, the Bangles are in trouble.
I guess the professor was too busy being woke to explain to the students how incredibly ignorant their position on race and culture was.
These idiots have swallowed the lie that “Egyptian=Black”, so they think putting on gold makeup to look like an Egyptian death mask is the same as “blackface”.
“That’s like somebody … making a song just littered with the n-word everywhere,”
You mean like Barry’s buddies Jay Z and Snoop Dog? I’ll bet there are at least a half dozen such songs on your playlist now, snowflake.
I love his SNL King Tut song and sketch. It was a masterpiece of comedy.
Today is Steve Martin’s Birthday.
Happy Birthday, Steve :)
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