Colin Kaepernick comments on Carton Banks and Steve Urekel

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I dont understand how black people can accept a mixed person who grew up with a white family dictating what blackness is. This is the same hustle Obama used.

Barry O never made himself the expert on race. In fact it was just the opposite. He was very honest about the fact that he grew up disconnected from his black culture through no fault of his own and when he became a man, he went in search of his ppl.

It's why he moved to Chicago and became a community organizer. It's why he went to the Million Man March in 1995.

He wanted to learn and be around black ppl. He never made a secret of that.

 

[Wildhundreds]

Carlton wasn’t even close to being the most popular character on The Fresh Prince. Will is the most liked character by whites (and everyone else). Honestly this example is some pretty dumb surface level analysis. Is the whole show like this? I might have to pass

This is very debatable.. Thats like saying Lemont Sanford wasn't even close .

 

[EBK String]

Black people loved Carlton and Urkel too because they were comic relief. These are terrible examples.

 

[Guess Who]

Yeah from all the clips I’ve seen…this documentary looks terrible. It like if you gave a dude with a YouTube channel Ava Duvernay and reenactment actors. Kaep ain’t saying nothing new. And he’s just not great on camera.

The whole thing doesn’t seem like it comes naturally for him.

 

[feelosofer]

I agree with the message, but I have to disagree with his examples, Steve Urkel marched to beat of his own drum and Carlton albeit a conservative was very comfortable in his Blackness. With that also said I feel like there is more context to this and I want to see the entire documentary before passing judgement.

 

[Tom Foolery]

Totally get what he's saying, but throwing Urkel and Carlton under the bus is

 

[Ace Money]

Also, regarding Carlton, it may seem weird to comprehend but class to a certain degree is also performed just as much as race is (See: Fussell and/or Veblen around the cultural and performative dynamics of class).

While I don't condone or agree with his socio-political takes, it shouldn't be surprising that an individual who spent the most formative years of their life around wealth, attending "quality" prepatory schools that emphasized elitism, and participating in social circles that did the same would hold the views that he did.

Basically, other factors that have different, yet still powerfully calibrating weights need to also be considered when analyzing "identity." As problematic as it might seem to hear, too much is under analyzed when we isolate race while examining social subjects.

*And appreciate it @Charles Foster Breh

 

[hcobbland84]

Did he use more recent characters in his explanation? I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t for fear of being “dragged” by Twitter.

William Jackson Harper’s character “Chidi” from The Good Place was shown in the collage.

 

[Why-Fi]

cant box us in like that. kap has been compromised. further, tom jones is dope

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Also, regarding Carlton, it may seem weird to comprehend but class to a certain degree is also performed just as much as race is (See: Fussell and/or Veblen around the cultural and performative dynamics of class).

While I don't condone or agree with his socio-political takes, it shouldn't be surprising that an individual who spent the most formative years of their life around wealth, attending "quality" predatory schools that emphasized elitism, and participating in social circles that did the same would hold the views that he did.

Basically, other factors that have different, yet still powerfully calibrating weights need to also be considered when analyzing "identity." As problematic as it might seem to hear, too much is under analyzed when we isolate race when examining social subjects.

*And appreciate it @Charles Foster Breh

Been said this
Yup

 

[Tribal Outkast]

William Jackson Harper’s character “Chidi” from The Good Place was shown in the collage.

I appreciate it. I’m going to watch the show later so I can get the full story outside of these clips.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

This is very debatable.. Thats like saying Lemont Sanford wasn't even close .

Carlton stole the show in later seasons and Will was trying his best to keep up. I’ve said this in fresh prince threads

 

[CHICAGO]

Urkel and Carlton are both blacker than Kaep.

DO YOU nikkaS JUST
READ TWEETS INSTEAD OF
CLICKING THE VID?

DUDE DIDNT SAY shyt
ABOUT NOT BEING BLACK
IF TOO MANY WHITE PPL LIKE YOU.

​

 

[EBK String]

DO YOU nikkaS JUST
READ TWEETS INSTEAD OF
CLICKING THE VID?

DUDE DIDNT SAY shyt
ABOUT NOT BEING BLACK
IF TOO MANY WHITE PPL LIKE YOU.

​

He said they are acceptable negros because they make white people comfortable.

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

If I recall this is from the "white mans stamp of approval"(job interviews, home loans, etc) episode.
In the episode he's recalling issues of having to get their "stamp of approval" to move forward in his sports career during highschool.

These monologs sets up the episodes and explains the wider cultural patterns outside of his individual life.
This clip in the OP cuts off before he mentions a wide array of African Americans from James Baldwin to Ida B wells and back saying that they are all acceptable by AA standards and AA don't have to wait on White folks to accept them/us.

...or something along those lines.




That said, I'm gone let yall react to click bait headlines like every other week when folks post & jump on clickbait threads about Jada






SIDENOTE:
The point he's making isn't whether those TV characters are "c00ns" or "sellouts".
His point is that white folks gravitate to certain types of behavioral tropes when giving their "stamp of approval"(job interviews, home loans, etc) .....his deeper point is that acceptable black people come in all varieties of productive behavior.

I.E. just because say, Malcom X didn't make white folks comfortable doesn't means he isn't acceptable.