Color blind racism and comedy

This week in class we discussed color blind racism and the frames used to support it.  Color blind racism is a recurring theme in the popular NBC comedy, The Office, more so before Steve Carell left the show.  In several episodes Michael Scot, the manager of “the office” played by Steve Carell, would often say stereotypical or racist remarks to some of his employees.  However, some of these remarks were often over looked by the employees because they considered there boss to rather stupid and ignorant.  Viewers of the show are also not often offended because the remarks or situations are done in a comedic way.  However, in one episode, where Darryl, a black wear-house work obtains a job in management, Michael Scott is offended because that is not the way things are suppose to be.  The way the show lays this situation out is that Michael is not upset because Darryl is black , he is upset because he is a wear-house worker and that mess up the order of how things should be.  However, this part of the program was not very comedic.  In fact it reads more like the frame that racism doesn’t occur anymore because it would appear that Michael Scott is trying hard to ignore the fact that Darryl is black and is focusing more on his professional status.  Although hidden by comedy, color blind racism is very often seen through shows and situations like those of The Office.  Comedy is often used as way to demonstrate racial and ethnic problems that are faced daily in real life situations.