Harry Connick Jr. Hates Racism. Australia, Not So Much.

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I can't believe this hasn't made it to VJ yet??

It was carried on the NBC Nightly News tonight.

The blackface video thing is quite bizarre, to say the least. To think that anyone, anywhere thinks this is funny in 2009 is pretty amazing.

But then again, Australians are known for their avant-garde take on things.....

http://www.nypress.com/blog-5199-harry-con...ot-so-much.html

Harry Connick Jr. Hates Racism. Australia, Not So Much.

Actor Harry Connick Jr. was on Australia’s version of The Gong Show when a group called Jackson Jive came on featuring five guys in blackface and one man in whiteface playing Michael Jackson. If reading those words didn’t make you disgusted, just watch the video, complete with a crowd of Aussies cheering along, and see where that gets you.

Dlisted has the clip, in which Connick doesn’t even try to hide his contempt for the group, giving them a 0 for their efforts. Harry even gave the audience a little chiding at the end of the show, not unlike an elementary school principle would give to a class of stupid 3rd graders. But, not unlike petulant children, the country as a whole didn’t seem to learn their lesson. The next day 80 per cent of this Australian website’s readers voted that the skit wasn’t racist.

I’m not pretending to know anything about Australian/Aboriginal relations, in fact, the only thing I really know about Australia is that Knifey-Spoony is their national pastime. Bad taste, though, doesn’t know national character, and the best thing you can say about a blackface act is that 99.9% of the time it’s in poor taste. Maybe that kind of minstrel-show “humor” is still acceptable in certain parts of the world, but luckily in this case we all had Harry Connick Jr. there to set the record straight on this trash.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I saw this on the news earlier tonight. It was also on the Australian news web site.

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Notice the time.

If you're going to bait, at least post this:

Australian TV show apologizes for blackface skit

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?.../i220849D73.DTL

The blackface video thing is quite bizarre, to say the least. To think that anyone, anywhere thinks this is funny in 2009 is pretty amazing.

But then again, Australians are known for their avant-garde take on things.....

Why what is wrong with it? HCJ is a hypocrite anyway consider he was in a skit pretending to be a black preacher.

Or are you expecting them to study US history?

Edited October 9, 2009 by Booyah!

[luckytxn 2,265]

It is ok to for Australia to be racist as they are a 3rd rate America.

Edited October 9, 2009 by luckytxn

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[Danno 1,228]

The truly brave folk are those who speak up when it is not popular.

I'm thinking the "modern day minstrel Show" known as rap.

At one time Both Black and Whites had a good career doing Minstrel and "darky" dance/music shows until it fell out of fashion.

Today both Blacks and Whites also make a nice living exploiting every negative stereo type about Blacks via Rap Music.... why the delay in the outrage?