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Kathleen Parker thinks the Obama rodeo clown was 'like an unarmed gladiator
August 19, 2013
Here comes possibly the worst analysis of the Obama-rodeo clown controversy, per the Washington Post's conservative, usually-reasonable Kathleen Parker:
The Missouri rodeo audience was mostly white and the masked man in the ring was depicting a black man. This changes everything we think about humor, about clowns and about good old-fashioned fun.Just as N-jokes are no longer funny to almost anyone, placing a black man in the arena like an unarmed gladiator isn’t amusing. As much as we aspire to racial harmony, we have centuries of history to overcome, including the mob-inspired lynching of black men, and this is what so many saw in the clown skit. Memory conquers humor.
It nearly goes without saying that the difference between a gladiator and a rodeo clown is that everyone knows (or at least can rest 99 percent assured) that the rodeo clown, no matter what mask he's wearing, is a trained professional and will live in the end.
The point being a gladiator was to end up eaten by a lion to the amusement of a roaring crowd.
Different.
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