In Australia, This Is Not Racist
8 October 2009, 11:24 AM. By Cindy Casares
Harry Connick, Jr. was judging a television talent in show in Australia this week called Hey Hey, It’s Saturday, (kind of like, The Gong Show, we gather.), and was offended by an act called The Jackson Jive in which five Caucasian doctors dressed in black face to imitate the Jackson 5. (Actually the doctor playing Michael Jackson had on an afro wig and white face, and one of the doctors was Indian, but that’s hardly here nor there.) While the audience and one of the other judges seemed really into it, a third judge gonged them for not being funny and Harry scored them a zero. Saying, “If you turned up dressed like that in America, it’d be ‘Hey, Hey, There’s No More Show.’” Indeed. But, seemingly, once again, American standards of propriety are seen by foreigners as hyper vigilant and over politically correct as witnessed by the comments for this video over on YouTube. But since Harry is a jazz musician from New Orleans who actually hangs out with black people, and the audience at Hey Hey It’s Saturday looked like this:
We’re going to go with Harry’s instincts on this one.
Criticism over black make-up act [BBC News]
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I guess it’s pretty easy to entertain an Australian.
I know it’s a cliché to say that Australians do everything backwards and they are the upside-down version of us. But I’m beginning to think that cliché might have some truth to it.
At work we collaborate with Australians on a product and our conference calls with them are set in stone. Because of the time difference, we have to schedule them WAY in advance and tardiness is not an option. But one day they didn’t show and our call was never connected. Turns out they missed the call because they were all in line for tickets to a David Hasselhoff concert.
Well, to be fair, Australia was settled as a penal colony. Also, damn that’s a lot of white folks in the audience.
I had a friend who studied briefly in Australia and he told me that the racism against black people there is jarring.
who is mark jackson? harry connick jr. is awesome for his response.
This skit was taken totally out of context as the performers were not having a go at African Americans or any other race per se and now they the performers and Australia have been branded racist by the over sensitive, self righteous and often hypocritical individuals portraying themselves on the moral high ground - I could stand in a garage, tell everyone that I met that I am a car, make all sorts of car noises however it doesn’t make me a car - Americans may have ousted the blackface as a routine and may have elected Obama as their president however that doesn’t truly mean that they have taken any true steps forward to address their inherit culture of racism.
In any society or nationality there is unfortunately an element of racism and that is why humans have independent thoughts, opinions and differences and luckily we are not clones, however Australians as a general rule are far less racist as a populace than America and some other nations.
America as a nation and culture are dysfunctional and bigotry, always trying to inflict their own twisted sense of morals on others - America you should be tried in The Hague for your continued practice of cultural genocide.