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O.K. There's good news and bad news.
Even though he's a K-1 Boxer, he's funny and non-threatening.
Bad news... this kind of fucked humor went out with Amos and Andy.
If you're Japanese and you think there's anything funny about this guy,
rent the Spike Lee movie Bamboozled, and you'll realize how unharmless this is. And if you're foreign and you're not familiar with this guy's wonderful routine here it is. Don't get me wrong. I think AMOS AND ANDY were funny... but this
type of humor went out a long time ago. Japan is basically an island with a lot of technology and an almost George Bush
like lack of understanding of the outside world. Many
Japanese realize this and strive to become more cosmopolitan and even
learn about neighboring countries who are even more foreign to them
than Europe or the U.S. The mass media, however, isn't
really in on the game - - and while there are many intelligent white
gaijin talent on TV, the image of black people in general is
awful (which is ironic, because it seems to me that many aspects of
Afro-American culture are indeed more popular here than in the U.S.)
In general, however, if there is a black talent on Japanese TV
he will
inevitably have two qualities - - the perfect mix of being loveable yet
savage like. My answer to this - - many Japanese themselves
feel STRAIGHJACKETED because they are not allowed to be as diverse as
they want... so in presenting a less diversified image of foreigners it
is hurting the Japanese themselves. It is giving the
message : See, those are people are non-diverse too, so we should
all be the same too... otherwise we will laugh at you in an exagerated Kansai dialect and hit you on the head with our hats.
This joker, Bobby Ologun made headline news the other night after a
dispute with the talent agent he worked for. Apparently he
wrecked the office. Upon release from police custody he
immediately went into his routine before the press curling up his lip and making monkey
faces.
My admonishment to the Japanese public. If the guy stutters
and talks like that because he's brain damaged, I think its cruel to
laugh at him. And if he isn't brain damaged, whether the
public who think he's funny either are. Then again I'm sure
he's laughing all the way to the bank, but at who's expense ?
Oh... some more good news... He makes Bob Sapp look like Jesse Jackson...
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