Dallas Cowboys’ Martellus Bennett recently posted a YouTube video depicting an eating contest between him and his brother Michael, in which the siblings race to see who can consume fried chicken, Kool-Aid and watermelon the fastest. In the video, Bennett refers to the contests as the “Black Olympics.”
Due to its exaggerated, stereotypical nature, the video has accumulated pages of argumentative YouTube comments and threads of both backlash and props.
According to CBS, Bennett said that he filmed the eating contests because he and his brother “were like, ‘Man, we eating every stereotype so let’s race and see who can eat the chicken the fastest, drink the Kool-Aid the fastest and the watermelon competition.’ It was all fun and games.”
When asked about racial stereotypes, he said that “That’s something we deal with every day. If we’re able to make a joke about it, it makes it even funnier to me.”
The video has a 4/5 rating on YouTube, and some of the comments include:
- “Love this! Tired of a few uptight people making a big deal about everyone being PC these days.. There’s a reason there’s so many hits on here.. its funny!”
- “These ignorant fools don’t have any sense of self, their culture, or their people, and, just because they can run up and down a ball field, they get to make fun in this despicable manner.”
- “lmao damm yall had me rollin u crazy an that shit madddddd funny”
What do you think?
On an unrelated note, I personally think I could eat fried chicken twice as fast.