The Amazing Racist

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P9ZgndfzZiw

The Amazing Racist is a man by the name of Ari Shaffir, and he is a comedian who likes to live dangerously. He had a series of short videos that he produced, and these videos were him performing racist acts towards others. There are videos of him being racist towards Asians, Muslims, Mexicans, and Black. Throughout the four videos Shaffir is shown doing outrageous things to the people of this descent. He films himself going to places such as Watts in East Los Angeles a place that is heavily black, and the video shows him driving through the streets of Watts wearing an entire Ku Klux Klan outfit. He encounters people on the street one black man even throws a brick at his car before Shaffir high tails it out of their. Later in the same video he is shown taking his KKK robe to a dry cleaner where the clerk is black and obviously becomes hostile about the situation. Throughout the entire black video he is shown wearing his robe around gas stations and dry cleaners everywhere. In the video about Mexicans, he is once again in L.A. this time he walks into a Mexican restaurant wearing an authentic Mexican outfit. He has his mini guitar with him strumming away and singing to the workers of the Mexican restaurant. He goes on giving the men a hard time by telling them not to work to hard and to take more breaks. Later in the video he goes to find illegal immigrant workers, and tells them he has a job for them to do, they hop in his truck and he drives them to the local immigration office and obviously the men take off running. You get the idea of these videos.
This relates to the class because it deals with racism as a whole on an everyday type basis. This guy goes around driving to different places acting like an idea trying to get himself into trouble. He wants to see if he can get a rise out of these people so he starts agitating them. This goes back to the movie ethnic notions. It deals with how people treat others, who do not look like them. They do not treat people the same because they are of a different race. So, he thinks that it is funny to do these mean things to other people but it really isn't just like in the film when the black people were treated differently, like the man who couldn't even get into a bar without going with a white person. All of these ideologies relate back to each other.
Personally, I think this guy is an idiot, and I want to see the video where he gets his ass kicked. He deserves it. He needs to get a pounding because this is no way for a person to act.