When Black Culture Meets White Culture.

If we're speaking only on race, may I make an observation?  I don't care much for black humor, because it comes across as misogynistic.  Woman-hating.  Women as sexual objects, all the time.  Chris Rock jokes about getting invited into Rhianna's panties bring back Kanye's jokes about having sex with Taylor Swift.  The black man directing the Oscars orchestra, who was lifted out of the orchestra pit for his moment of recognition only to be joked on by Rock as a way of getting the black man "laid" at the Governor's Ball... what choice had he but to laugh, but really, your lifetime of work saluted with a joke about getting laid?

Black humor seems to thrive best by cutting others down:  women ("Carol" was the third-best girl-on-girl actions I've seen this year... funny? Proper at an awards show honoring the work it takes to make such films?);  "yellow" jokes on Asians;  every white woman in the audience wondering if their work will be reduced to a sexist comment about their looks...

Last night, I saw a lot of diversity in the hard-working, non-English-first-speaking accents.  We saw gay people who had truly overcome discrimination in their lifetimes -- can't black people learn to model that?  We saw men thanking their fathers, fulfilling their dreams.  Can black people relate?  We saw women earning awards based on their career choices and again, hard work.  Can black men see that, beyond their hot bodies and beautiful looks?

I hope so, because the big white elephant in the country today is all of the African-American immigrants, non-native English speakers themselves, who are not holding themselves back blaming centuries of discrimination on their current cultural choices.  Black immigrants are succeeeding where native-born black Americans are not, precisely because they are not locked into the latter-day American mindset, where black men learn that they are baby-makers and women-collectors, and the women are there to serve their needs.

No joke.