Drag In Blackface Just In Time For Black History Month
I copied and pasted this post from one of my MySpace friends. Check it out.
***To understand this post and its impact, you will need to either go to my blog here on myspace or to www.jasmynecannick.com to see the video, hear the audio and see the photos.***Racist West Hollywood Drag QueenScheduled to Perform in West HollywoodDuring, Get This, BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!Here we go again.Shirley Q. Liquor, a.k.a. Charles Knipp is scheduled to perform at a secret location on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 8 pm. in West Hollywood, California.I mentioned that the location is secret, as a matter of fact top secret, because Liquor is known to be protested and cancelled when he steps out of the South to perform his anti-Black routines.Charles Knipp is a white man who performs racially offensive material in drag and blackface. He describes his character Shirley Q. Liquor as an "inarticulate black welfare mother with 19 children." While in blackface as Liquor, Knipp speaks in Ebonics and makes comments like "axe your mamma how she durrin" and misuses words like "ignunt."Knipp mocks the Black American holiday Kwanzaa and uses black faces to make fun of stereotypical Black names in a music video entitled, "Who Is My Baby's Daddy."Knipp's white character, a woman named Betty Butterfield describes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a "colored preacher" during a video segment on the Lutheran Church.The following was posted on November 10 on Knipp's Myspace.com blog:"My 1972 Cadillac busted down this afternoon on the way home from WalMark. We was stuck at a redlight download and it was a man in a turquaz Excalade behind me steady honking. I try and try to start that motor but it be DEAD. That man kept on honkin.""Finally, Watusi jumped out the car and went back and told that man "let's trade places... why don't you come up and help start the damn car, and I will sit back here and honk at yo dumb ass."In Knipp's store on his website he sells among other things, an ornament for a Christmas tree for Kwanzaa that says, "Happy Kwanzaa to Your Mammanems." There's an entire section of baby bibs with racially offensive and insensitive messages like "INMATE," this is in rainbow colors, which as you know is often attributed to gays.Add to that bumper stickers in rainbow lettering that says, "I love coloured people."In an interview for the Wow Report, Knipp says, "To be honest, people of color who have seen my shows live or heard my CDs overwhelmingly tell me how much they enjoyed my accurate portrayal of a certain genre of the gritty, witty Southern women that they fondly remember, no matter what her race."Continue reading "Racist West Hollywood Drag QueenScheduled to Perform in West HollywoodDuring, Get This, BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!" at www.jasmynecannick.com
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***To understand this post and its impact, you will need to either go to my blog here on myspace or to www.jasmynecannick.com to see the video, hear the audio and see the photos.***Racist West Hollywood Drag QueenScheduled to Perform in West HollywoodDuring, Get This, BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!Here we go again.Shirley Q. Liquor, a.k.a. Charles Knipp is scheduled to perform at a secret location on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 8 pm. in West Hollywood, California.I mentioned that the location is secret, as a matter of fact top secret, because Liquor is known to be protested and cancelled when he steps out of the South to perform his anti-Black routines.Charles Knipp is a white man who performs racially offensive material in drag and blackface. He describes his character Shirley Q. Liquor as an "inarticulate black welfare mother with 19 children." While in blackface as Liquor, Knipp speaks in Ebonics and makes comments like "axe your mamma how she durrin" and misuses words like "ignunt."Knipp mocks the Black American holiday Kwanzaa and uses black faces to make fun of stereotypical Black names in a music video entitled, "Who Is My Baby's Daddy."Knipp's white character, a woman named Betty Butterfield describes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a "colored preacher" during a video segment on the Lutheran Church.The following was posted on November 10 on Knipp's Myspace.com blog:"My 1972 Cadillac busted down this afternoon on the way home from WalMark. We was stuck at a redlight download and it was a man in a turquaz Excalade behind me steady honking. I try and try to start that motor but it be DEAD. That man kept on honkin.""Finally, Watusi jumped out the car and went back and told that man "let's trade places... why don't you come up and help start the damn car, and I will sit back here and honk at yo dumb ass."In Knipp's store on his website he sells among other things, an ornament for a Christmas tree for Kwanzaa that says, "Happy Kwanzaa to Your Mammanems." There's an entire section of baby bibs with racially offensive and insensitive messages like "INMATE," this is in rainbow colors, which as you know is often attributed to gays.Add to that bumper stickers in rainbow lettering that says, "I love coloured people."In an interview for the Wow Report, Knipp says, "To be honest, people of color who have seen my shows live or heard my CDs overwhelmingly tell me how much they enjoyed my accurate portrayal of a certain genre of the gritty, witty Southern women that they fondly remember, no matter what her race."Continue reading "Racist West Hollywood Drag QueenScheduled to Perform in West HollywoodDuring, Get This, BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!" at www.jasmynecannick.com
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