Analysis Of Bigsby And Ruckus

The majority of comedy is centered on identity. Comedy, like many other aspects of different cultures contains barriers that are broken only by an understanding of the context of the comedy. In order words, it is unlikely that an African would fully understand a joke by an American comedian if the joke draws from a primarily American historical or social context. Hence, what one can identify with affects what kind of jokes one can relate to. Identity is predicated on the ability to relate because identities are formed through personal interpretations of the environment one finds himself or herself in. These personal interpretations can be highly influenced by a manipulation of the context or amount of representation. Using Bigsby and Ruckus

In the case of Bigsby, his isolated community contributed to his white supremacist view of the inferiority and contempt for the black race. Mostly filled with racists and bigots as noted by the Frontline reporter who ventured into Bigsby’s community, it’s a consequential fact that there is an overrepresentation of negative opinion that guided Clayton to the identity he possessed. Similar to his headmistress, his white peers took advantage of his blindness, acting as the only source of information regarding views on blackness. Evidently, these views were one that portrayed blackness in a negative light as Bigsby would go on to call blacks “big butt having [and] wide-nosed [who were] breathing all the white man’s air,” in a disapproving manner. Visibly , there is no way he could tell if blacks really did have big butts or wide noses without word of mouth and there is no way he could have really cared about the “negative” effects of these wide noses – because it really does not matter to him – without external influence. Hence, in growing up blind, Bigsby developed perpetual self-hate as the overrepresentation of negative black stereotypes left him with a skewed perspective of who he

McGruder does this by going behind the scenes of the “Uncle Ruckus Reality show,” to the producers of the show, Black Evil Television (BET). As stated in the show, BET stood for “Black Evil Television” and the most important question to them in creating a show was if it “evil or evil enough.” The term evil in this Boondocks episode was another way of asking if the BET shows overrepresented the negatively influential yet entertaining stereotypes associated with black identity. It was another way of asking for and making sure the channel provides a constant flow of false reality that contribute to how the children viewer see