12774937, And you don't think their race played a role in that? Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Wed Apr-08-15 07:41 AM
I will give you that he favorable reading is that the joke was a subversion of an image, but the guys being black is part of that image. I don't see how you seperate their race out of that image. It's like those old right gaurd commercials with charles barkely and david robinson with the same premise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzdbaoGczC4
>>being smart, sensitive and articulate. > >i always saw that as a "big dumb bodyguard guy" subversion. >tracy witnessing dotcom "becoming trigorin on the wesleyan >arts main stage" is funny because he's a big bodyguard, not >because he's black. do you recall any specific instances of >the humor being based on them being black?
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