Eddie Murphy’s Buckwheat Was a Wrecking Ball with a Smile
Buckwheat from "The Little Rascals" was a stereotype: messy hair, mush-mouth lines, and comic cluelessness. Nobody said anything in the '40s. They just laughed.
Eddie Murphy took that character, jacked it full of helium, and turned it into an absurdist nuke. The lisp. The stare. The repetition.
It was mocking the mockery.
But today, the think pieces would start writing themselves: “SNL Weaponizes Black Pain,” “Is Eddie Reinforcing Harmful Tropes?”
No, he wasn’t. He was turning the mirror around and asking, “Still funny?”
Apparently, the answer is no. Because these days, it’s only okay to tell the truth if you whisper it into a government-approved tissue box while lying on a mat in a federally-funded safe space.
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