Buzzfeed Uses Black People To Stereotype Black People

Buzzfeed featured a video that called ‘27 Questions Black People Have for Black People,’ and the response was not good. Critics say it does nothing more than promote black stereotypes. Ana Kasparian, Sam Schacher (Pop Trigger), and Kenny Hamilton, hosts of The Young Turks discuss. Let us know in the comments below. Watch the entire video here

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“A long with being so remarkably tone-deaf that its tone deafness felt intentional, BuzzFeed’s now infamous “27 Questions Black People Have for Black People” actually raised more questions than it answered. Namely, who green-lit this? Were the people in the video actors reading from a script? Or did they come up with their own questions? And where do they find these types of anti-black black people in 2016? Living Social? In line at Qdoba? Working at Qdoba? Google Plus? And if they’re not found, where are they made? Where is this “I’m Just Not That Into Other Black People” factory located?

Also, of the 27 questions—which vacillated from “Eh” to “Are you f--king kidding me?”—which was the least terrible? And the most terrible?

Let’s see!

(In order, from least to most terrible.)

27. If my dab is on fleek, am I lit?

26. Why is it so hard to be on time?

25. Why did watermelon become our thing? Like, everyone should love watermelon.

Interestingly enough, each of these questions came relatively early. And at this point, it still had the potential to be a funny and irreverent video. But instead of attempting to mine humor from some of the lighter questions and conditions associated with blackness, and perhaps draw on those absurdities, it veered heavy. And by “it veered heavy” I mean “it veered into an 8-foot-deep pond full of s--t.”

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The Young Turks April 13, 2016 Hour 2

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