With Regards Jesse Jackson is an episode of South Park in which Stan's father, Randy Marsh, says a racial slur on a game show. The word being the "n-word" which is derogatory towards African American people. The obvious result of his misguided guess on the game show results in Randy becoming the black sheep of the South Park, where he is constantly associated with the incident. He is even threatened with violence by a group of men who appear to be white trash, yet they are harassing Randy for saying racist things towards black people. Prior to this Randy was forced to kiss Jesse Jackson's ass, literally, as a form of public apology to all black people. This is ontological because it is critiquing whiteness by saying that all white people associate black acceptance with Jesse Jackson. Of course this public apology does not excuse Randy from his act of stupidity, so while he is being chased by the white trash rednecks he is rescued by a group of public figures that have made statements involving race, specifically comments towards African Americans. This is ontological in the sense that the people who made public racist comments are all grouped together as horrible people. All this time Cartman has been hassling a midget who has come to the school in order to teach tolerance towards those with difference, but Cartman simply can't get over how hilarious he finds the midget. After constant ridicule from Cartman finally the midget breaks down and fights Cartman, who laughs the entire time while he beats up the midget. After the fight the midget hobbles away as he continues to preach that he is no different than anyone else and that "words are like bullets". This construction of ontology in postmodernism is such because it is critiquing the idea of acceptance of differences in this society. Everyone is grouped into some association or another by their similarities and beliefs, and often times those groups disagree in a public setting.
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