"DAILY SHOW" PROVES THAT RACE IS, INDEED, STILL A TRICKY SUBJECT

RACE MATTERS

'Daily Show' Proves That Race Is, Indeed, Still A Tricky Subject (VIDEO)

On Tuesday's "Daily Show," correspondents Samantha Bee and Jessica Williams set out upon a noble mission: To take part in the national conversation on race by talking to groups of black people and white people about their impressions on race.

But when Bee (who is white) is placed in a black focus group, and Williams (who is black) interviews a white group, we see pretty quickly that such a dynamic offers up some pretty startling revelations on how we feel about race behind closed doors.

 "The Daily Show" skewer the idea that racism can be solved by simple conversation.






RACE HAS ALWAYS MATTERED, TO WHO IS GOING TO CLEAN THE COMMODE TO  WHO IS GOING TO BE THE ONE SITTING BEHIND THE DESK.  WE ONLY PRETEND THAT IT DON'T, JUST TO SAY IT'S A STEP MOVING FORWARD.  GUESS WHAT?  WE AS BLACKS BELIEVE IT BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES TELLING US SO AND THEY WOULDN'T LIE WOULD THEY?  HELL THEY HAVE BEEN TAKING CARE OF US SINCE BIRTH.  WHEN EVER WE GET A POSITION IT IS ALWAYS NOTED AS HISTORY MAKING, THEY SAY THINGS LIKE, "THE FIRST BLACK PERSON," TO WHAT EVER THE CASE MAY BE THAT IT TOOK THIS LONG TO ACHIEVE.  WHITE PEOPLE ARE BORN AND BREAD TO BE RACISTS PERIOD.

STILL DON'T BELIEVE ME?  SHORTLY AFTER EBONY RELEASED THE STATEMENT THAT THEY WERE ISSUING THEIR SEPTEMBER COVERS WITH PROUD BLACK FATHERS, "SAVE OUR SONS," THIS IS THE RESPONSE THEY RECEIVED FROM WHITE AMERICA.


The bigoted responses were endless, and quite ridiculous. For example, one commenter said: "Join the movement? You must mean blame all other races for black society's problems... How about you raise your kids better and not hand them over to the streets, jayz, lil wayne or pacman jones.. Stop selling drugs go to school no more pimping women." And another one who had this to say: "Trayvon could only dream of having better parents that would have taught him to be a young man instead of a hoodlum."

THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT WHITE AMERICA FEAR IS US COMING TOGETHER AS A RACE, ALL THESE YEARS YOU SHOULD HAVE FIGURE THAT OUT BY NOW.  KEEPING US APART AND FIGHTING AMONG OURSELVES HAS ALWAYS BEEN THEIR AGENDA, ISN'T THAT HOW YOU WIN A WAR?  THEY FLOODED OUR NEIGHBORHOODS WITH DRUGS AND SET BACK AND WATCHED.  SO YES WE CAN TALK ABOUT RACE AMONG OURSELVES AS WE  ALWAYS HAVE.

LET'S TALK ABOUT IT SOME MORE THIS FALL WITH YOUR HOST E. L. PLEASANT FROM THINKING OUT LOUD