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MTV STANDS BY TOON SHOWING BLACK WOMEN ON LEASHES: Network president says it’s called satire.
*MTV president Christina Norman is responding to anger within the African American community over an aired cartoon that depicts black women being led around on leashes as dogs.
As previously reported, MTV2’s half-hour animated series “Where My Dogs At?,” which pokes fun at pop culture and celebrity, aired an episode last month in which a Snoop Dogg character leads two bikini-clad women around on leashes. The women squat down on their hands and knees, scratch themselves and defecate on the floor. At the end of the episode, the Snoop character curbs his women with a rubber glove.
With exception to the pooping, Norman, an African American, said 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 and the goal was to take aim at that incident for its insensitivity and outrageousness," MTV spokesman Jeff Castaneda said in a statement Wednesday. "Even one of the dogs, a main character on the show, states, ‘I find that degrading and I am a dog.’”
Critics, however, aren’t buying the satire explanation. New York Daily News columnist Stanley Crouch said the episode was dehumanizing, and questioned the show’s depiction of such behavior as “real” black culture.
Also in response to Viacom/MTV's stance, Paul Porter's Industry Ears organization issued it's terse response to EUR. You can read it HERE.
Meanwhile, the network said it had not decided whether it will ban the episode from ever airing on the channel again; nor has MTV announced whether the series will return for a second season.
Here's an episode of "Where My Dogs At?"
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