Mushmouth
09-29-2018, 09:13 AM
(CNN)In a classic Monty Python skit, an angry man walks into a pet shop carrying the stiffened corpse of a parrot nailed to its perch.
The man complains that the bird he purchased is dead, but the shop owner keeps insisting the parrot may be exhausted or prefers reclining on its back.
A surreal argument ensues as the shop owner keeps responding with a line that has now become synonymous with refusing to see the obvious:
"No, no, he's not dead, he's resting."
Could a similar refusal to name the obvious be at work in the way people talk about race virtually every day?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/29/us/polite-racism/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/john-blake#about
The man complains that the bird he purchased is dead, but the shop owner keeps insisting the parrot may be exhausted or prefers reclining on its back.
A surreal argument ensues as the shop owner keeps responding with a line that has now become synonymous with refusing to see the obvious:
"No, no, he's not dead, he's resting."
Could a similar refusal to name the obvious be at work in the way people talk about race virtually every day?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/29/us/polite-racism/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/john-blake#about