Leslie Jones Analysis

Leslie Jones is an 50 year old African American women born in Memphis Tennessee. She accompanied Jost on Saturday night live,a comedy show that has been running since 1975, when they began discussing Lupita Nyong’o who was named the most beautiful person in the world. Jones went on to saying that she's also a black woman but she's single. She said that if it was during the time period of slavery she would easily be married to a black men with a bunch of children. While some people might find Leslie Jones diction subversive because comedy makes light of difficult situation, I find her diction offensive because she is not taking slavery seriously.
One way Jones doesn't take slavery serious is when she talks about how she would not be single and would be breeding babies if this was during slave days. In the text Jones say that the master of the plantation would've married her off to a black men and “ every nine months I’d be in the corner having a super baby”. Slavery is a serious matter, African American were taken from their homeland and brought to the south to forcefully work for white people. Most woman's job during slavery was to breed kids and take care of the master's home. Usually, masters would force black women to marry black men so they could breed children and the children would
Not only does she speak wrongfully in the skit but she still doesn't understand what she said that was offensive. On twitter Jones defense herself by saying that black people “ bitch and moan about stupid shit” ( Leslie Jones). Not only did she refer to slavery as” stupid shit” but she still hasn't taken initiative to what she said in the skit and apology to African American women whose ancestors had to experience rape, sexual abuse and forced marriage. Jones response proves that she doesn't really care about what she said and that what she said wasn't wrong and offensive in any