Summary
Tom Hanks reprised his 2016 “MAGA” character, Doug, on Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary episode, sparking backlash from Trump supporters.
The sketch, Black Jeopardy!, featured Doug again hesitating to shake hands with a Black host.
Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive, calling it an unfair caricature of Trump voters.
The original Doug on Black Jeopardy sketch is my absolute favorite sketch they’ve ever done.
It’s so obvious that poor white people would get along with and want to same things as minorities if they could just get over that racism and stop falling for the manipulation by religious and political leaders
It doesn’t happen in a vacuum. There’s generations of racism bred into them, including the politicians and religious leaders.
That kinda hate makes for a very powerful weapon.
bred into them
No. Absolutely not. Not even maybe.
Taught. The racism is taught.