Keepin' it Real

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Wednesday February 27, 2008 · 3:09 PM PST

2008/02/27 · 15:09

Dave Chappelle has a funny joke series on the topic of "keepin' it real" in which he shows how badly things can turn out when you do that. It's hilarious. And it makes me think of two things;

NPR in the last couple of days featured some guys who started a blog site called "What white people like". Apparently it's been very popular. The weird thing, to me, was that during this whole NPR interview of the site's co-founder, and all the white callers who said how great the site was, no mention or credit was given to the black comedians who have led on this issue. Dave Chappelle has been doing hilarious things on white people for years. He's got the Ted Copple lampoon. He's got "White people like guitar" skit. But no bow to him. That's disappointing.

The second aspect of "keeping it real" is this: I've made a few observations on dkos recently and it's become pretty clear that people don't like Hillary mostly -- I'd say 90% -- because she is in fact ... gulp ... a female. Now this is not to say that anyone here is consciously sexist. Heaven forbid. But ... keeping it real ... I have to say:

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