Satire Done Right: Ashaka Cohen

If you’re a buffoonish and cringingly-stereotypical Black woman stuck inside a white guy, you’re probably not gonna like this one bit.

If you think Black women are the object of ridicule in this piece, you’re not gonna like this one bit.

If you appreciate the social constructionist argument being turned haphazardly on its ear by a painfully unaware person worthy of mockery, you’ll probably dig this.

I must admit, the video raises an interesting question for me: If a person can be transgendered–which I think is possible–and gender, like race, is a social construction–according to sociologists and the people who say that sort of thing–why couldn’t a person make a legitimate claim to being a transracial person?

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