"Standards of Race?"

Race is an issue that has been around for centuries. Personally I think race is only what us as humans allow it to be, and the power we give it, just like we give simple words the power to be racist. Words that I myself will not say because I have been told that they are as bad as swearing. So I will let the movie clips above say them for me. What "standards" do we as humans, black, white, yellow, etc, give each other for what is acceptable and what isn't? Is it acceptable for a black person to make fun of a white person, but not vice verse because of what happened in the past? Is it acceptable for any race to make fun of another even if it is just for fun. I myself have laughed at racist jokes made by a person of any race.
I also find stereotypes laughable and funny, and have made fun of myself plenty for dancing like a white girl. And who am I to say if one white comedian is allowed to make fun of blacks, or if say a comedian like Dave Chappelle is allowed to call white folks "crackers". My view is that jokes are just jokes and that yes there are some underlying meanings but a joke is just meant to be fun, and whoever gives it the power to be hurtful has done that themselves.
On another note words like "cracker" and "haole" (a Hawaiian; or as the census calls them Pacific Islanders, but a few of my Hawaiian friends I play volleyball with say they would rather be called Hawaiian; word for foreigner that has recently been used as an insult for white people) aren't hurtful to white people unless hurled as an insult, while the more vulgar words such as the n-word or the word in the Clerks clip are taken more heavily just because they are used to insult a black person. Shouldn't all hurtful words be taken the same, and not so lightly? That is just my opinion. Every prejudice thing should be seen on the same level, no matter how guilt whites feel about the past. It is the present and, sure although the past can teach us things, it is not good to dwell on what happened, but what we can do to change the future.

Not another teen movie

"Token Black Guy" starts at 0.35 seconds.

Not Another Teen Movie - Token Black Guy

"The Token Black Friend"

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Going off of the Bechdel theory that I learned about in my woman/racial studies class, which is looking at a movie, T.v, or any part of media and seeing if there are two or more woman with names, that talk to each other, and about something other than men, the same can be related to African Americans in media as well. Whether there is two African Americans that talk to each other about something other than a white man. One concept going off from this idea is the idea of "the Token black friend".

For those who have not heard of the "Token black friend", it is when a movie basically fits their "quota" of having a person of different race in their movie other than white. This is in itself extremely racist.

One of my all time favorite shows would have to be South Park, because it makes fun of everything in society. Nothing is off limits to Matt and Trey, the makers of South Park. In the town of South Park, the only reaccuring African American friend of the main boys in the show just so happens to have the name of "Token". Now this was not just some coincidence, but more of a point to criticize the blatant media industry of trying to seem not so one sided in the issue of race.

Another example of the "token black guy" can be seen in the movie, "Not Another Teen Movie" (seen in the two clips posted on my blog also), where the "token black guy" makes fun of himself and the situation where he has to be the only person of a different race in the movie.

Standards of "Beauty" through Stan Lee's Eyes?

Growing up I was really close with my older brother, making me more of a tom boy then a little girl who loved playing with dolls. Instead I tended to watch his cartoons on TV, swim in my pond in my backyard, climb trees, play with legos, and of course read comic books. What I never realized before was that the views of "average" hero's and villains in the comics I grew up reading are actually so far from average people and so far from being the right way to view different kinds of people. The "beauty seen in comic books are so far from the beauty of the real world it is actually kind of sad.

Every women in the comic world are skinny and beautiful, and if they are not skinny and beautiful, or way to sexual then they are the evil villains, just like the femme fatals of the movie world. Some examples would be The Black Widow, Catwoman, Mystique, Poison Ivy, and so many more.

The same goes for the men side too. Every hero that is a man is handsome, sexy, and perfectly riped. If they are even a little on the heavier side then they are the evil villain, for fat, ugly, evil villains see The Kingpin, The Blob, Bizarro, and Lex Luthor (who is bald).

So I wonder how any young kid can mold his/her own standard of beauty when even in his comic books he is getting bombarded with the images of perfect bodies from his/her heroes who he/she wants so badly to strive to be, and not so perfect, sexual, maybe even fat images of the villains who he/she does not want to be like.

the Blob, the Kingpin.