Oh yay, it's Gavin McInnes, the white nationalist dude that got booted from the company he founded for being even worse than the rest of Vice...

" McInnes has referred to Asian-Americans as "slopes" and "riceballs," suggested Muslims are "stupider" and "more violent" due to inbreeding, defended blackface because some minstrel shows were "just mimicking black people" and "fun," backed the racist comments of Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson, and argued that to yell the n-word at someone is "not racist" but "just very rude."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/05/meet-the-hipster-racist-fox-news-guest-attackin/199617

Negrotown is a minstrel show... I think Key even had blackface on.
A little too on-the-nose for satire...
I'm not offended on behalf of black people or anything like that, I just didn't find it clever.

Context:
After looking up the title on Youtube ("Dans la peau d'un Noir"), it turned out to be a documentary from 2007 where two French families, one black one white, "switched" their skin colors to experiment with discrimination (or its sudden absence, as the case may be). Its Wikipedia page mention John Howard Griffin's "Black Like Me" as an inspiration.

Additional note which I feel obliged to mention for American viewers: there were no minstrel shows, and so there is no concept of "blackface", in Europe. Of course disguising yourself into some sort of racial stereotype would bring the same type of reaction as anywhere else (or so I hope), but just changing your skin tone would not be considered offensive in itself.

This vid is a lot of fun It might get a few more views with a little blurb selling it in English... Minstrels! Musketeers! Dumas! Anachronisms! Folk rock! Everything was better.

Cools-Hard-boppin' roots from the Blue Note heyday is what gets me goin'....Army doctors are second in importance to career, soldier-minstrels, then come the commissary. Wait: Chow, music, doctors, infantry, command, in that order.

Gonna get to coppin' those tracks soon and help ya with those studio bills...

Seriously? The whole blackface controversy needs to die down. Unless someone is doing a Minstrel Show I really don't see anything wrong with white people wearing blackface especially in this case!

>> ^Trancecoach:

there's something very minstrel about his "technique"... all that racial humor is a throwback to a bygone era of tap dancing in black face while singing Mammy.


Yeah he overdoes all the black jokes.

An interesting youtube comments claims that they saw pretty much the same routine elsewhere.

there's something very minstrel about his "technique"... all that racial humor is a throwback to a bygone era of tap dancing in black face while singing Mammy.

Thnx, it has a nice sound to it. Glad you liked it.

In reply to this comment by dag:
Really enjoyed this song - great post!

In reply to this comment by Encumberance:
>> ^marinara:

TBH, I didn't know that Bill Monroe credited blues music.
But it's equally clear that " blues , gospel , minstrel , and old-time string band music and Jimmie Rodgers"
were also influences for Bill Monroe.
Doesn't make bluegrass into gospel and minstrel and string band.
show me a article on blues that has bluegrass in it and i'll concede


I am not debating music history. Just saying it is in the right category. If you think over wise have it removed from that category. Simple as that.

The song was added to the Blues section, not cuase it has blues in the name. Cuase if you hold your mouse pointer over the Blues it says "Blues & Roots" this being Roots music.

>> ^marinara:

TBH, I didn't know that Bill Monroe credited blues music.
But it's equally clear that " blues , gospel , minstrel , and old-time string band music and Jimmie Rodgers"
were also influences for Bill Monroe.
Doesn't make bluegrass into gospel and minstrel and string band.
show me a article on blues that has bluegrass in it and i'll concede


I am not debating music history. Just saying it is in the right category. If you think over wise have it removed from that category. Simple as that.

The song was added to the Blues section, not cuase it has blues in the name. Cuase if you hold your mouse pointer over the Blues it says "Blues & Roots" this being Roots music.

TBH, I didn't know that Bill Monroe credited blues music.

But it's equally clear that " blues , gospel , minstrel , and old-time string band music and Jimmie Rodgers"
were also influences for Bill Monroe.

Doesn't make bluegrass into gospel and minstrel and string band.

show me a article on blues that has bluegrass in it and i'll concede

anyone remember the black & white minstrel show?

Gee our old LaSalle ran great... Those were the daaaaaays!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Because I'm part of the new crowd, not part of the Golden Age of better times and better people. Kids these days just don't show enough respect when their elders take the time to dickslap ya.

2006 must have been a magical year, filled with men larger than life and beautiful women who knew their place, the kind of people that the robot bards and minstrels will sing about in the future.

Why did I wait until 2007 to join? Why, why, why, why!? Every night when I go to bed I gnash my teeth in anger and bitterness for missing out on the Golden Age.

*runs away crying*

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Why you gotta be so cruel, mr. kronos, why?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
*taunt #49

Because I'm part of the new crowd, not part of the Golden Age of better times and better people. Kids these days just don't show enough respect when their elders take the time to dickslap 'em.

2006 must have been a magical year, filled with men who were larger than life - gods, titans - and beautiful women who knew their place, the kind of people that the robot bards and cyborg minstrels of the future will sing about.

Why did I wait until 2007 to join? Why, why, why, why!? Every night when I go to bed I gnash my teeth in anger and bitterness for missing out on the Golden Age.

*runs away crying*

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Why you gotta be so cruel, mr. kronos, why?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
*taunt #49

Aye, yon minstrel makes such sweet music to mine ear. My soul doth raptures! I will sing your praises... if it pleases ye....