Talk:Wanda Sykes

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Contents 1 Humor 2 Majored in English? 3 Possible racial profiling issue 4 NSA 5 Brenda Sykes

[edit] Humor

The article states: Much of her humor comes from her delivery and timing

I think this is is an unusual statment. Comedians would argue the essence of stand-up humor is delivery and timing. Dubkiller 10:34, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Majored in English?

Question: When she went to college, what did she major in? Did she switch majors before she graduated?

Answer: She majored in Marketing at Hampton University. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree.

[edit] Possible racial profiling issue

Why is it that all American actors when they are of black ancestry are usually referred as "African American"?

Why is that when actors are Jewish, Italian, French or any other ascendance (always of Caucasian race) are labelled only as just "American"?

Is that a subtle way to say that U.S.A. is composed of "Americans" (any white, of course) and some "African American" (same as "beware: is American BUT a black american")?

- Are you claiming that being black has no effect on a person's identity? Also, last time I checked, Jon Stewart is a "Jewish American" on Wikipedia. I've seen plenty of notes like that about white people.

Wow, talk about having a chip on your shoulder. The talk page for an article about Wanda Sykes is not the place to sling accusations of racial profiling. You could try Category:African Americans, but then i guess you'd see Category:Filipino Americans, Category:Jewish Americans, Category:Scots-Irish Americans, Category:Bulgarian Americans, and hundreds of others, and realize you were talking out of your ass. Moe Aboulkheir 22:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Um, probably because they generally self-select into the category of 'African American'?

[edit] NSA

Didn't she work at the National Security Agency? That's probably worth adding if someone can verify.

Either way Wanda is FAWKEN funny01:41, 21 August 2006 (UTC)hope.

Answer: Yes - she confirms in many written interviews - as well as in the Q & A section of her Seattle DVD that she did work at the National Security Agency. She was a procurement officer. The information has been added to her biography.

[edit] Brenda Sykes

Is Wanda related to Brenda Sykes (who appeared in the film Mandingo)? -Grammaticus Repairo 22:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)