Sing Should Have Seen This Coming

Universal Pictures animated musical Sing made a character named Johnny, who aspires to be a hip hop artist and is clearly supposed to be black, a gorilla. Also, his father, who is also a gorilla, is a gang banger who is in prison. Shit. Also, Johnny is British. Someone get Jane Goodall on the phone, I don’t know what to feel. 

The joke is on the people crying racism, because the guy who voices Johnny’s character is white. In fact, of the 61 voice actors in the film listed on IMDB, only two, Jay Pharoah and Leslie Jones, are black. And they have minor parts. And were probably forced into the picture because SNL is on NBC which is owned by Universal. So, how racist could Sing even be if barely any black people even worked on it. It’s tough to be racist when there’s nobody around to be racist towards. If you drop an N-bomb at a hockey game, is anyone around to hear it? The producers have to know what they’re doing. This shit was vetted and Universal’s legal department let them skate by on a technicality, like Robert Downey Jr’s character in Tropic Thunder, which was hilarious. 

Whoever wrote this script might actually be a racist. Not the kind who bust out their nigger jokes at Thanksgiving, the kind who are really smug about it. A host of mis-prioritized idiots took to Twitter to voice their concerns as the film grossed fifty million dollars: 

“Watching Sing, gorillas had a British accent but darker big animals (gorillas and bears) were criminals.”

Yeah, why didn’t they make the bad guy a white bunny rabbit or a vole, what a bunch of shitty writers. Turns out, gorillas and bears are pretty scary. If you associate scary animals with black people, you’re the racist. And probably in charge of casting. Making an aspiring rapper who’s dad is in jail British means something’s clearly on your mind. Make America Great Again. 

_{Photo Credit: Universal Pictures}