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And while it's not nearly as malicious as racism in the United States, there is still and underlying message of "people with dark skin are funny" as well as "African American people are funny"......
It should be noted that it's also not specifically "Japanese hate African Americans". A lot of their portrayals of any outside culture tends to be the same. More or less, Japan is a very isolationist country and society, so the foreign world is viewed for interest and entertainment rather than integration.
So far, of all of the posters, you gave me the most evidences to sway me. Although, black face that was used in the USA to convey comedy the same way as their usage in those examples you gave. But blackface in the USA was to mock the intelligent of black individual in which help to promote/retain the re-existing inequality within the USA. The agenda was quite clear actually within the USA context to see blacks as second class citizens.
However, let me ask you this. Because of my American influences, politician commentators gave a lot of leeway to free speech under comedy categories. And as a progressive, I worry deeply about inequality in America, but often I disagree with my fellow liberals/progressives. For instance, isn't this very similar to what you just posted? And yet, I don't feel it as racism.
Mad tv's Miss Swan- isn't this exactly like blackface http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6e25sqD_WA How about racial jokes?? I do feel that in certain situations, I think the entertainers can get away with it. Especially if the jokes are funny and harmless. But geez, then there are people like this who react to Eyeshield 21.
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How many people were aware that this book contained a racist image that is humiliating to black people and still allowed this book to arrive upon American shores unedited? How many people saw that image, shrugged their shoulders, and thought that the feelings of black people were not worth the time and effort it would take to edit or remove the panel? How many people thought that the offensive image wasn't worth calling attention to because they have bitterly accepted the idea that the Japanese have embraced racist images that are humiliating to black people and will never relinquish their desire for blackface and depictions of Sambo?
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But now I'm angry. I'm real angry. Because the hate is now being shipped back to my shores to be immersed in my culture after black Americans have spent hundreds of years trying to shake it like a bad virus. And here it is again in a mutated form being packaged to our children so the world can tell them once again how ugly and insignificant it thinks they are.
How about this vid of Robert Downey jr's blackface??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WHBO_Qc-Q
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In regard to B, since people still misunderstand my point. It is goddam obvious that B can rap and act like rappers (to an extent). Anybody with eyes or brain could see that. But what I argue was, so if a manga featured 20 black guys, can 1 of them act the stereotype? And does stereotypes equal racism?
American comics are usually bad at convey Asians. Sometimes, it is so water down like this person is just partially Asian (heritage wise). And or that person is just Asian because the creator said he/she was but no one can ever guess that he/she is Asian. So is that diversity, just for diversity sake when there is absolutely no substance to back it up?
Edit: an example of this is Artermis from Young Justice- she is partially Vietnamese, who knew.Last edited by movingstone at 9:51 pm, May 6 2013