So Is It Now Its Racist To Do Impressions ?

[webbo3]

Shouldn't they been concentrating on more important things.?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/716855/Jeremy-Corbyn-Labour-comedienne-Jan-Raven-Diane-Abbott-Peston-on-Sunday



Dave.

[andy-hughes]

But surely, Ms Abbott is being caricatured because she is a politician, not because she is black?

Politicians or all stripes take satire in good humour - it goes with the job - and I am sure Ms Abbott is unlikely to be thin-skinned enough to be offended about the copying of her voice.

As for the colour of her skin - that doesn't come into it.

Jim Davidson doing 'Chalky' - racist (although of its time to be fair).

Jan Ravens doing 'Diane Abbott' - not racist.

I think that's pretty much summed it up.

[dannyk13]

Ridiculous reaction.

[ummmm]

My mate does a brilliant impression of Stevie Wonder. He can sing like him too.

[-Talbot-]

Jim Davidson doing 'Chalky' - racist (although of its time to be fair).


Chalky was fictional


A better comparison would have been Lenny Henry.

[andy-hughes]

ummmm - //My mate does a brilliant impression of Stevie Wonder. He can sing like him too. //

I would suggest that your friend impersonates Stevie Wonder because he is a world-famous musician, and not because he happens to be black which, as with Ms Abbott - is an irrelevant detail.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //Jim Davidson doing 'Chalky' - racist (although of its time to be fair).


Chalky was fictional //

True, but it was a caricature of a stereotypical black man.

// A better comparison would have been Lenny Henry. //

Possibly - although it's tricky for a black man to caricature a black man.

That does lead to the argument that 'It's not racist if black people do it ...' which is not an argument that I especially side with, but that's a separate debate.

[ummmm]

My friend's black so impersonating SW is nothing to do with race.

(seen Stevie at Glastobury, absolutely brilliant)

[andy-hughes]

ummmm - //My friend's black so impersonating SW is nothing to do with race. //

Personally, I don't think it would be do with race whatever your friend's ethnicity. But that is a subtlety that seems to have escaped the Corbynistas on this occasion.

[Booldawg]

she didn't even black up for it!

[-Talbot-]

Lenny Henry would have been well snookered as an impressionist if he had to stick to just doing black people ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PeSdu7MUCw

[Gromit]

A bit of a non story.
Half a dozen tweets from mostly anonymous sources is whipped up to a racism storm, when one doesn't exist. It is just making up a rubbish story from rubbish material.

[naomi24]

This is precisely the sort of thing that exacerbates racism. Idiots!!

[youngmafbog]

All part of the problem with the prolific use of tools of Beelzebub.

[Gromit]

In the new age of internet democracy, everyone has a say. So it is not difficult to find stupid people tweeting rubbish.
In this instance, out of the millions who watched the programme, they have found half a dozen tweets and made up an anti-Corbyn story from it.

Do the opinions of this handful of loonies matter? - No.
Do these loonies have any influence? - No.
Do they fairly represent the opinions of the show's viewers? - No

To take this desperate waste of time garbage as real news is a mistake. To think it proves anything about Corbyn, black people, racism or the Labour Party is an insult to most people's intelligence. ^sadly, many are taken in by it.