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You should really #askamagicalnegro

Finally got some questions for my rehearsal session yesterday so I could practice the improvised song for live stream performance next Monday. It’s a terrible angle but here’s fun one.

I’m going to do this for rehearsals and will continue to do after show, so get those questions in!! And don’t forget to mark your calendars for Monday’s show! https://www.facebook.com/events/769437399829780/

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Help a magical negro for Black History month

This may be your one chance to help a magical negro out for Black History Month! Can you really pass that up. I'm going to record some songs tomorrow based on questions you ask. Check out the original post for more details and ask those questions!!

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2000 or 17?

Q: Magical Negro I am a crazy nut job and would like to murder people in the name of religion. For the maximum world and media attention should I kill 17 people or 2000 people? A: Well crazy nut job this really isn't the kind of light questions I was hoping to answer for my askamagicalnegro campaign but it's a slow week for questions so I'll give you the short answer. It depends on the country, race, and religion of the people you murder. Sometimes fewer is the way to go. Please seek help for the crazy. ------------ I read this article that a orthodox Jewish magazine had photoshopped all the women world leaders out of the Paris march.

I had a good laugh last night about the irony of their coverage but this morning I thought to myself how more or less ridiculous is it then the difference in coverage between the events in Paris and the events in Nigeria. My brain can't quite reconcile that this is the world we live in - that extremists could kill 2000 people and there would be barely any coverage and other extremists in same period could kill 17 and there would be wall to wall coverage. If we're really upset about terrorism wouldn't we be upset about all murders by terrorists somewhat proportionately? The best response I have seen of events in Paris is this cartoon by Joe Sacco.  (Honorable mention to Kareem's) However I fear that we have all missed Sacco's point almost immediately. The trending hashtags and social media feeds seem to illustrate a certain narrative for where the world's empathy is. What does your feed and posts say? The last panel of Sacco's cartoon so clearly get's at the problem - the search for that place where we're all able to live together - it's either at a place of understanding and empathy of all those who are suffering or an extermination of those we can not or will not understand.... So though "journalists" and the 24 media cycle may continue to fail us, we must take the time to be better about the stories we share and the narrative it tells about the world we live in.