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Let’s talk about stereotypes! Stereotypes are the categories that everyone claims that they are too educated to follow but they know secretly that they believe in them partially but, never admit it out of fear of judgment. Media is blamed a lot for the perpetuation of racism but what about how we perpetuate stereotypes in our own daily lives? The manifestation of these stereotypes is social media trends like #whitepeopleproblems, and #blackpeopleploblems they seem harmless when we’re posting them but, what does that say about the greater society at large? As much as we hate to admit it we all play a part in creating and maintaining racial stereotypes. In this blog we will be comparing and contrasting two Saturday Night Live skits about how media portrays white and black people and what implicit and explicit messages are sent to the viewers.  

Black Jeopardy is an SNL skit is about black people on a game show. Like all game shows there is a host. He initially introduces himself as Alexter Black jokingly. His real name is Donnel Haze.He seems to be in his thirties. The contestants are Amir your stereotypical “black gangster” , Keyly your stereotypical “ghetto black girl” and, Mark an old white African American studies professor who just wants to give the show a “try”. Keyly and Amir seems to be in their twenties. The categories the contestants choose from “Had that been me”, It’s been a minute, That girl, On Punishment, White People, and Pshhhh.

All the black people on screen are standing to the left in a row. Mark is positioned on the right. All three black people on the screen are brown skinned black people. There is no mistaking them for any other race. Amir is dressed in a black puff vest long sleeve shirt, jeans, and a skull cap. Keyley has a fro and is wearing a regular shirt and jeans. Mark is in your typical TV professor look. You guessed it! The beige tweed suit and vest like Mr. Finney. Their body language speaks louder than what they are wearing. Amir speaks with a lot of hand gestures. Keyley neck rolls and her eyes are always wide. Mark seems nervous and uncomfortable. All these things send implicit messages we internalize. Viewers internalize the idea that all black women have “sas” better known as too much attitude, black men are thugs. And the idea that white people should feel uncomfortable when they are the minority or talking about anything that deals with race.

Keyly and Amir answer the most questions. Mark struggles with idea of the game he seems to think the show was going to be about African American history. The only question he is able to get right is the “white people” category. Donnel the game show hosts tells him after he answers the question that they would’ve took anything for the answer. Keyley and Amir’s answers to the questions are ones typical definition of ghetto.  All the grammar is wrong which implicitly imply that black people do not have the ability to speak well or proper. If Keyley would have spoken proper she would have been looked at as the Oreo or “unlike the other black people”. This reinforces the idea that you cannot be considered black unless you are ghetto! Like speaking properly takes away from your skin color. Donnel asks Amir it’s been a minute since he had a job. Mark buzzes in and answers what is a black convicted felon! This is the depiction that most upper class whites have of black people. It is ongoing stereotype that men are jobless criminals. The double jeopardy question at the end is “Name a rap song that starts with the N word?” Mark emidelty gets uncomfortable. Donnel said “you betta watch yourself Mark” implicitly this is implying that black people are allowed to say the N word but white are not. It implies that black people are sensitive and easily offended when discussing race.