With Apologies To Jesse Jackson Analysis
South Park’s episode, “With Apologies to Jesse Jackson” played on many ideas such as racism, racial sensitivity, institutionalized exclusion of minorities, and the pushing political agendas. To summarize, the episode featured a man who was called, “nigger-guy”, because he said the racial slur, nigger, on Wheel of Fortune. He later went on to feel as if he was being treated badly because everyone was excluding him from events. His son was even affected by the actions of his father and almost lost an African American friend. This instance reflected the idea of “words are like bullets” which was often said throughout the episode by an angry midget. At school, a midget came to speak to the students about sensitivity in words; however the midget