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In the late 1970s, Saturday Night Live aired a sketch show starring Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor in which black and white comedians hurled racist slurs at each other in a word association game, eventually resulting in of Racial slurs.
It was very funny, and the kind of thing that would never air today, but what could air today was the bizarre “White Guy Tacos” comedy skit that Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz released this week.
Harris and Walz’s ‘racist’ conversation about ‘white’ tacos sparks backlash on social media
In one awkward, obviously scripted scene, Harris asks Waltz if, as a white guy, your tacos are made with mayonnaise and tuna, to which old, down-home guy Tim chuckles and says that the spiciest thing you, as a white guy, eat is black pepper.
Aside from the fact that white people eat spicy foods like buffalo wings at an astonishing rate, this passage exposes the hypocrisy of the progressive left’s view of race.
GLENDALE, ARIZONA – AUGUST 9: Democratic presidential candidate and United States Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic VP nominee and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz share a laugh as they pose for a selfie in front of a sign that reads “Kamala and Coach” during a stop at their campaign office in Glendale, Arizona on August 9, 2024. Kamala Harris and newly selected VP nominee Tim Walz have been campaigning across the country this week. (Photo by Andrew Harnick/Getty Images)
It’s clear to everyone that the Harris-Waltz campaign would never release a video making a joke about Kamala eating fried chicken, because in the 1980s and 1990s new rules were created that treated people of all races differently, rather than equally, depending on their perceived position in the hierarchy of power.
The change meant Chevy Chase couldn’t use the N-word in a joke, but Richard Pryor could still say “crackers,” a double standard that many found jarring and that was on full display in the Harris campaign.
On both Zoom calls held in support of Kamala, with white women and white men, the clear message was that white people are to blame for Donald Trump and everything else they believe is wrong with this country, and that white people must now admit their guilt and graciously hand over power to more enlightened people of color.
Vice President Kamala Harris held a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee spoke about rising prices. (Image direct from Fox News Digital)
When it comes to cultural appropriation, claiming that only white culture belongs to everyone, making white people the only group to be the target of derogatory jokes or accused of something because of the color of their skin, promotes white supremacy in the very ways that the left pretends to reject.
In reality, progressives are creating the white supremacy they claim to be against by assuming that only white people are strong enough to take the joke or see their cultural traditions accepted by others.
Now, leftists will claim that Harris is “hitting the top” with her tuna-mayo jokes, and that Waltz is “hitting the bottom” with his jokes about black people and Indian food, but that’s a perverse and un-American way of thinking about people. Skin color doesn’t make someone better or worse.
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While this silly joke by the Democratic candidate isn’t racist enough to warrant a march on Washington, the Harris campaign has picked up on that particular joke, and it’s not an isolated incident — portraying Waltz as a self-deprecating white male, sitcom dad is clearly a theme they’re pushing.
A growing number of Americans, especially those four generations removed from the success of the civil rights movement, are uncomfortable with this racial double standard, and for that reason alone, we should stop it.
From the 1950s to the 1980s, comedy was a vital tool in overcoming racism in America, and it worked because, as in the cases of Chase and Pryor, everyone was the butt of the joke. It was equality.
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The Harris campaign has gone farther than the Biden campaign in trying to treat Americans as members of racial groups rather than as equal and unique individuals, with separate Zoom calls and rules about jokes.
It is long past time for Americans to reject this kind of thinking and go back to the very simple and easy solution of treating everyone the same regardless of race. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be what Harris and her campaign want. Instead, they want us to focus again and again on skin color.
For now, Tim Waltz’s white minstrel show goes on, but it’s not funny, it serves no one, and it deserves to be canceled.
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