me get this right: Donning “blackface” is an unpardonable crime, but a black person wearing “whiteface” is perfectly fine. Do I have that right?
Now, this video shows Druski’s character interacting with a good many NASCAR fans, and yet Druski himself is the only one who is racist. The odds that any actual person doing any genuinely racist thing would have been included are only around 100%, and yet Druski can only show himself being racist toward black people, and only when no one else is around. He is apparently trying hard to show NASCAR fans, Southern white Americans, and patriots in general as a bunch of racists, but he can’t find anyone to flesh out the stereotype, so he has to do it himself.
Now I give him credit in terms of the makeup–it was other-worldly good. But having lived in the South myself, I can tell that he is full of crap in terms of his stereotyped portrayal of a Southerner. After four years in the south, I had not heard a single racist word.
Oh I strongly suspect it happens, and people just didn’t open up to a “Yankee.” But I spoke with hundreds and hundreds of people under a legal requirement of confidentiality, and the closest I ever came to it was a southern belle in her early 20s saying that Abe Lincoln was a villain because he suspended habeas corpus.
You know, that’s pretty weak tea. I mean, maybe she had more extreme racist views than that, but she certainly didn’t express them! Even in a very private setting.
Am I saying that there are no racists? Of course not. But I AM saying that in four years of private conversations I didn’t hear them talk in a racist way. So if they are there, they certainly are under “deep cover.” Now I didn’t deal with the very elderly, and there might well have been some problems there…
But that tells me that even in the South, racist views are just not socially acceptable!
