I’m generally against censorship, but someone needs to take away Martellus Bennett’s access to YouTube, and it must be done today. As our friends at YOU BEEN BLINDED pointed out, the concept of a Black Olympics — eating chicken and watermelon and drinking Kool-Aid as timed events — might have been a funny concept if Dave Chappelle had done it. But in the hands of the Cowboys’ tight end, it’s … well, not good. Not good at all.
If you’re a fan of Bennett’s YouTube rap career, please seek help immediately. You are not well. Not only did he commit the ultimate sin — rhyming “Romo” with “homo” (a stunning lack of imagination there) — he also sang about women farting. Just how does this help move society forward again? And now this dubious idea, in which he enlists the help of his brother, Seahawks’ DE Michael Bennett. (Video below).
It’s time for another installment of Bad Idea Jeans.
You may not be surprised to know that this is not Bennett’s first attempt to tackle the black-people-enjoy-chicken concept. He wrote about it extensively earlier this year in his blog for the DALLAS MORNING NEWS. Excerpt:
here are some of the answers to my survey! I asked numerous people.
2) because it’s greasey and black people use grease (LOL)
4) I don’t know fool. Haha.
5) because it’s in our DNA (really)
6) because it’s let’s fattening then red meat
11) my answer: everybody loves chicken despite race sex gender chicken is scrumptious and everyone enjoys it. If you haven’t had chicken go get some.
Never stop chasing your dreams.
Those last two sentences may be the most poignant, lyrical words ever written in the English language. Except for that one Shakespeare play about potato salad.
Tip of the Tom Landry hat to YOU BEEN BLINDED.
12:27 pm on July 10th, 2009
That is really not that big of a deal. We can all see why the rap was bad, but come on, you are reaching with this one.
2:52 pm on July 11th, 2009
When will the brothers learn? They (the blacks) would be outraged if whites created a skit like the “Black Olympics” but it isn’t off limits for them to come up with the concept. Next thing you’ll know it will be politically incorrect for white people to even laugh at this. You can’t have it both ways guys.
2:08 pm on July 12th, 2009
Johnnie… this a little beyond you… but when you speak to “the blacks” you are speaking to a large, diverse group, and some of them, like myself, were not actually involved in the making of “speed watermelon eating” videos. And therefore, do not feel the need to address them with you. You are free to make these videos if you’d like, but unless you’re 15, you realize by now that who you’re speaking to and how they see you has a lot to do with how your message is received. You can’t have it all. So be happy with you are and what you have, and realize that being able to make jokes about watermelon and chicken probably isn’t a good tradeoff.
10:51 pm on July 14th, 2009
No big deal. It shows confidence. It shows freedom. I’d qualify too in that Olympics…with my appetite (just put some Habanero sauce on that Chicken and I’m eating it all!!!..and I’m a white, 88% 4th generation German-American (the other 12%, is Polish–I tell those joke myself–don’t get me started). I myself and others in my East-Coast surrounds (the English and Irish Americans) play fun at my Midwestern German heritage with sausage and sauerkraut jokes, beer jokes, bratwurst jokes, nazi jokes. People who blew this out of proportion need to get a life!