{"id":14,"date":"2008-06-29T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/06\/29\/racial-satire-on-the-web\/"},"modified":"2008-06-29T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T03:50:00","slug":"racial-satire-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/06\/29\/racial-satire-on-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial Satire on the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of racial commentary in comedy on television is dire.  But, the web is a treasure trove of great racial satire.  The mother of all race satire sites is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpeopleloveus.com\/\">Black People Love Us<\/a>.  This site is purportedly run by a progressive, up-scale, white couple, who seeks to proclaim to the world their cosmopolitan status.  It&#8217;s a great commentary on the tendency to confuse paternalism for acceptance.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpeopleloveus.com\/letters.html\">comments section<\/a> on this website is particularly fascinating.   I don&#8217;t know where they got these actors, but I&#8217;d love to see them in a sitcom!<\/p>\n<p>Another cool side I&#8217;ve come across is <a href=\"stuffwhitepeoplelike.com\/\">Stuff White People Like<\/a>.  Where&#8217;s the &#8220;Stuff Latinos Like&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>BTW&#8230;.this is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imeem.com\/groups\/U2yvffaJ\/music\/oLkonGov\/autolect_doorks_album\/\">best hip-hop track<\/a> I&#8217;ve heard in a long time.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of racial commentary in comedy on television is dire. But, the web is a treasure trove of great racial satire. The mother of all race satire sites is called Black People Love Us. This site is purportedly run by a progressive, up-scale, white couple, who seeks to proclaim to the world their cosmopolitan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}