Sarah Silverman is hosting a comedy show titled "Live from N*****head: Stripping the Paint Off Of Good Ol' Fashioned Racism." Silverman's fellow comics will be involved, proceeds will go to the NAACP, and the event will take place in Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's home state of Texas. Of course, the name comes from Perry's family hunting ground, first reported by the Washington Post at the beginning of October and much discussed since then. Perry has said it's an "offensive name that has no place in the modern world."Asked about the title of her comedy show, Silverman told EW, "“This is a never-forget moment. The show’s provocative name holds a mirror up to an ugliness that seems to have become yesterday’s news without having barely even made news.” She also explains that using the loaded N-word in the title of a show to benefit a civil rights organization draws on "the positive thing about N-head and other outwardly racist actions...Like trying to put the Confederate flag on Texas license plates, it's no longer just a gas in the air. It's something you can point it. It's something you can fight against and expose. So I see this as an opportunity that should be taken."Jezebel asks, "But is Sarah Silverman the best person to hold the mirror? She made headlines ten years ago, when describing getting out of jury duty. She joked that a friend suggested writing "I hate chinks" on her paperwork. "I wanted to do it, but then, I'm like, I don't want people to think I'm racist. You know, I just want to get out of jury duty. So I filled out the form and I wrote I love chinks. And who doesn't? Many people — including the president of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans — found the joke, and its language, offensive."Do you think the use of the name of Rick Perry's former hunting grounds delivers a pointed critique or is it unnecessarily vulgar and unintentionally racist?
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