Saturday Night Card Game (Color Blindness Is the New Racism)
16th December 2012
Joe Engel is tired of people obsessing about race.
Black people don’t eat Ritz crackers and cheese? That’s news to me, same as it would be to Fuzzy Zoeller, if he still had a career after making “racist comments” about Tiger Woods’s presumed culinary preferences.
So apparently Jamie Foxx wants the craft services people to lay out a platter of fried chicken and watermelon. Uh, no, not that either.
In the same vein he explained that if he turned up to the photo shoot and there was fried chicken and watermelon, he would also be annoyed at the stereotype.
Which is the same as saying that there’s no pleasing Jamie Foxx, not with that concrete chip on his shoulder. Indeed:
Jamie also admitted that he feels that he must act and talk in a certain way around white people and in his day-to-day job as an actor.
So there’s a black way of being and a white way of being. Good to know. I eagerly await my updated 2013 manual.
How tiresome this has become.