I’ve written about Chuck Knipp, the guy who does Shirley Q. Liquor before (I’d link, but that was the old Slant Truth now gone). Today, I came across a way too sympathetic Rolling Stone article from about a year ago on Knipp, by way of Professor Black Woman, with this bit of historical revisionism (emphasis mine):

Vocal critics of Knipp who are demanding he do just that — stop — all point to the similarities between his act and nineteenth-century minstrel shows. There may be comparison points, though not necessarily the ones Knipp’s detractors imagine. Though blackface minstrelsy is today seen as an example of America’s regrettable racist past, shelved in history between Klan lynchings and Jim Crow laws, minstrel shows were not purely racist. Like Knipp’s routines, they veered wildly from celebratory imitation to vicious ridicule.

Minstrel shows were not purely racist? Minstrel shows were sometimes celebratory imitation? Are you kidding me? Here’s a tip, Mr. David Holthouse: just because someone, somewhere claims “celebratory imitation” to justify their racist bullshit, that doesn’t make it so. Please do me a favor and STFU.