{"id":176,"date":"2006-11-03T18:06:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T02:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2006\/11\/03\/i-love-katt-williams\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T04:10:54","slug":"i-love-katt-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/i-love-katt-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Katt Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katt Williams<\/a> is a really funny stand-up comedian who uses the word nigger with such repetition and with so much emphasis that after watching his act, I felt kind of deprived. I want to say nigger too! Of all ethnic slurs<\/a>, it is clearly the most offensive, yet somehow the most ubiquitous in our present pop culture.<\/p>\n

When Katt Williams uses it, the word refers to a group whose coolness can never be usurped by White people. We are on the outside looking in, terminally lame.<\/p>\n

But sometimes, when I watch Black comedians who aren\u2019t as funny, I start to fret about their use of negative Black stereotypes. I start to wonder why it\u2019s okay for Black people to find humor in being perceived so disparagingly\u2026as thugs, or womanizers, or just illiterate. It\u2019s hard to imagine Jews or Asians taking such pleasure in a stance of \u201cLook how cheap we are!” or \u201cWe love to work at nail salons!” \u00a0 I just don\u2019t get it, but I\u2019m sure there\u2019s some explanation. Richard Pryor probably had the answer.<\/p>\n

I brought this up in the car, and pointed out that Asians don\u2019t greet each other with \u201cHey, Ching-Chong!” This brought laughter from certain quarters, but not from any husbands who shall remain nameless here. I am serious about this, though, so please feel free to enlighten me.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Madonna has now accused her detractors of being racist, saying that prejudice is behind all the controversy: “I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I’ve adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.”<\/p>\n

Poor Madonna! \u00a0 She doesn\u2019t watch TV or read newspapers, so no wonder she\u2019s so out of it. I personally wouldn\u2019t mind getting to carry around a cute African \u00a0 baby. I would also like to have a platypus. Oh well. \u00a0 If only I was Katt Williams, I could tell Madonna, \u201cNigger, take that red Kabbala<\/a> shit off that baby\u2019 wrist!” She will never, ever be that baby\u2019 mama, no matter how many talk-show hosts she finds time to bother.
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