>It's fine if you don't agree but we are talking about comedy.
>Some people are gonna laugh for reasons you might not like but
>unless they tell her directly or she feels uncomfortable about
>it (a la Chappelle) I don't see what the issue is. We can't
>be worried about social standards if we expect to escape
>them.

it works different when it's universal humor (The Cosby Show/My Wife And Kids/Blackish) vs. black shit (Martin/Sanford & Son/Good Times and What's Happening where JJ and Rerun could have been like minstrel acts if white people embraced those shows)


>When Ellen waltz's out to her audience and does the whip nae
>nae or grooves with her audience, no one says "well, how will
>Black people view her?". Why we have to do so with Tiff.

Ellen is white.


>Let her break barriers, be the female Kevin Hart and pave a
>way for more talented black female comedians. They have to
>accept us as who we are and we can't be afraid to be who we
>are.

white people laughing at a spectacle that reinforces black entertainers as caricatures in their mind (as opposed to talented humans) is not "accepting us". The same white people who love Savion Glover tap dancing arent there for the social commentary in his work