Stepin Fetchit, eat your heart out

I am relieved that the Oscars, for parity's sake, honored three black stereotypes: the Savage (Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland), the Noble Savage (Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond), the Minstrel (Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls), and Mama (Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls). And Eddie Murphy played them all in The Nutty Professor.