Hear My Call

[F]or some reason, the entertainment industry appears to truly enjoy ridiculing “brown” people, Arabs and Indians, and has no qualms about casting people not of our heritage to portray us. Indeed, just last week Popchips snack company found itself embroiled in a controversy because an ad showed Ashton Kutcher playing an Indian character in brownface, similar to what Cohen is doing in “The Dictator.

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Dean Obeidallah for CNN.

This is why I dislike Sacha Cohen. Racist stereotyping isn’t funny. At. All.

If you are going to mock and ridicule us for profit, can you at least cast Arabs and Indians to play us? And while we’re at it, why not include us in the creative process as co-writers and directors?

Bingo.

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God, I cannot even begin to express how much I loathe Dean Obeidallah’s brand of humor and how uncomfortable I feel with a Muslim comic who makes his living off turning Muslims and Arabs into caricatures for white audiences BUT AMEN to all of this. Sacha’s “brownface” routine is OLD and it is RACIST and if it doesn’t make you ALSO feel uncomfortable to see a white, Israeli comic exploit disgusting, ill-conceived stereotypes of Muslims and Arabs under the pretense of humor, you need to reevaluate what you know of how systems of power that subjugate minorities are given power.

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