http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/not_racist_but_dumb/Correct -
Quote:"Yet what he, Somers and the Hey Hey team failed to consider was that in their Australian audience was indeed an American."
Correct -
Quote:"What on earth did they imagine Harry Connick Jr would think? And even if Connick were inclined to laugh it all off as a culture clash, what else could he do but protest? YouTube clips of him sitting there unprotesting in front of a black-face skit would have killed him back home."
Perhaps -
Quote:"That others overseas will now grab this as evidence of our racism is in part another manifestation of this clash of cultures. I doubt many American commentators will realise that black face isn’t for us an iconic symbol of racism."
Maybe at the very least they'll look at us as a backward country for being insensitive to their baggage - however, just because we don't carry the same baggage (and guilt), doesn't mean we always need to be sensitive to it. I'm pretty sure that people from Asian countries think we're all backward because we don't wear face masks in public when we get the cold. But when you have an American on the show, who's from New Orleans of all places - seriously - what were they thinking? Very thoughtless and embarrassing.
And 4:19 into the youtube clip, Daryl says "lot of colour on this show". Blimey - if that ain't a face palm moment, I dunno what is. I remember watching that last night thinking "oh, FFS Daryl, what's wrong with you!?"
