Australian crackers

Wow. Watch some of the top, then 2:30 through at least 2:52...



Harry Connick, Jr. is a white kid of some privilege from New Orelans (his parents were judges, and they owned a record store), but heavily dipped in Crescent City music culture; i.e.: black folks, plus jazz and blues and funk and gospel. In NOLA, there used to be segregated Mardi Gras parades -- not only by race, but also by gender -- until he helped found the Krewe of Orpheus, which has no such limitations. He's also been active in local charity, predating (but especially for) Hurricane Katrina; his home neighborhood of Lakeview was near the broken 17th Street Levee and particularly hard hit.

So, it's no surprise to me that Harry's reacting the way he is; skip to 5:50 for some of his commentary and differences between American and Australian humor. I'd have thought that Australia's own problems with its indigenous population would have put the brakes on things like this.

Found via Media Take Out.