"Consider Dave Chappelle's Niggar Family sketch on Chappelle's Show. The sketch used a 1950s black-and-white family sitcom aesthetic like that of Leave it to Beaver (1957-1963). It centered around a white, middle class family with the last name 'Niggar.' Everyone in it is white except 'Clifton the Colored Milkman' (played by Chappelle) and his wife. The novelty of the sketch was the prevalence of the n-word and its attachment of Black stereotypes to this white family because of their name. The sketch ends with Chappelle's character trying to get a table at a local restaurant when the host calls for 'Niggar, party of two.' Is he being called the n-word? No: he realizes that the teenage son of the Niggar family is there with a date. The Black couple laughs at the momentary confusion and Chappelle's character says, 'Oo-wee, this racism is killing me inside.' Chappelle's character recognizes the levity of the situation, but the sketch is haunting for how it fatalistically portrays the persistence of racism."
Brandon J. Manning at Post45 writes that "[f]or today's Millennial Black satirists, fatalism is not enough."
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