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Are We That Different?


When we viewed “Black Jeopardy” from SNL, it occurred to me that I have seen almost all of them before.  It didn’t come to me at the time that those sketches were satire.  I mean, I didn’t even know what satire even was back then.  I thought maybe it’s more about the divisions between the two communities and the stereotypes than the humor itself.
I decided to watch a different sketch of “Black Jeopardy,” because I was curious about the differences in a video that did not have all black contestants on the show.  I clicked on the one with Tom Hanks, who was wearing a “make America great again” hat and a bald eagle shirt, who was named Doug.  When I first watched it, I wondered how the atmosphere would end up being on account of Trump, and the fact that SNL would hate to miss an opportunity to make fun of him.  However, when Doug answered some questions correctly, the host was pleasantly surprised.  When the question comes up of a fingerprint on an iPhone, everyone is skeptical and distrusts that very idea.  Doug says; “That’s how they get you,” and the host excitedly replies with “Yes! Yes!”  However, I saw how nervous the white contestant was and how he reacted toward the end with the category “lives that matter”.  It shows that no matter how many questions he got right; he won’t get any right in that category because he just can’t relate to them.  He just isn’t in that community so he shouldn’t have anything to say about that subject, and the host doesn't want to hear his views.  And just like that, the sketch was over.  In the end, there is and probably will always be a division between the two communities.     
https://youtu.be/O7VaXlMvAvk

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