Big Brother Castmember Tolerated Racism to Avoid Black Stereotypes
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On last night’s Big Brother, Howard, one of the show’s two African-American castmates, was voted out of the house. It’s been a particularly trying season of Big Brother for the contestants of color as several of the white house guests have outed themselves as blatant, unabashed racists.
Among the most hideous things uttered: GinaMarie referring to welfare as “nigger insurance,” multiple cast members making fun of Asian contestant Helen’s her eye shape, telling Helen to go cook some rice and the repeated taunting of Candace, a black woman, by calling her Aunt Jemima and asking when her “blackness” was going to come out.
With that, it was sad — albeit expected — to see Howard forced out of the house last night. But while it would have been nice to see him prevail and go on to win over that shitty group of bigots, it was interesting to get his perspective on what happened inside the house and the way that he and Candace handled it. And by interesting, what I really mean is utterly depressing.