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MTV defends cartoon showing black women on leashes
9-Aug-2006
Written by: Antoinette Wood
Network president Christina Norman says it is meant to be social satire.
A cartoon airing on MTV depicting black women being walked around on leashes as dogs has sparked the ire of many in the African American community.
“Where My Dogs At?” a half-hour animated series that pokes fun at celebrities and pop culture through its stars, two stray dogs called Woofie and Buddy (voiced by comedian Tracy Morgan and Jeffrey Ross), had an episode where a look-a-like of rapper Snoop Dogg entered a pet shop with two bikini-clad black women on leashes. The women proceed to squat down on all fours, scratch themselves and defecate on the floor. At the end of the episode, the Snoop character puts on a rubber glove and picks up the excrement.
The network says the July 1 episode was meant to satirize an actual appearance the rapper made, flanked by two women on leashes. “We certainly do not condone Snoop's actions,” they said in a statement. “…the goal was to take aim at that incident for its insensitivity and outrageousness.”
MTV president Christina Norman, an African American woman, defends the episode but her answers to questions posed by many prominent members of the African American community are lacking. New York Daily News reporter Stanley Crouch questioned the sincerity of the contention that MTV was indeed only trying to satirize the incident.
Crouch blasted the entire episode as dehumanizing and criticized it for projecting that misogynistic, crude and racist behavior as “real” black culture.
The show has just finished up its eight-episode run on MTV2.
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