rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Sambo may refer to:

Sambo (racial term), a term for a person with African heritage that is now considered offensive
Sambo (martial art), developed in the USSR
Sambo, the main character in the 1899 book The Story of Little Black Sambo
Sambo's, a restaurant chain
Sambo's Grave, grave of a slave (died 1736) at Sunderland Point in Lancashire, England
TG Sambo, a Korean computer manufacturer
Sambomaster, a Japanese rock band
Sammanboende (or samboende), a Swedish term for people in cohabitation
Sambo, the name in Ecuador for cucurbita ficifolia, a type of gourd
Sambo, a romanized term for the three ancestral treasures of Chinese culture
Sambo, Irish and Australian slang term for sandwich

yis ruin everything rly

we say 'sanga' instead now

ttytt we favour sangidge ourselves

Brown hand shaking white hand to illustrate low crime rate (not sure if link will work). Pasadena's tech website (Innovate Pasadena).

http://i1.wp.com/www.innovatepasadena.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IP_City-of-Innovation.png?resize=940%2C2737

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wrapper turnt sanga

^ made this same pun in my head

so, annie lennox, huh. like...you can tell the media that beyoncé is not a real feminist, OR you can cover "strange fruit" on your new album, but doing both in quick succession seems like a terrible idea.

whoa wtf

I just found this in a box of pictures and letters. From Pendelton, Oregon, c. 1979.

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5608/15004800363_9602bbf012_c.jpg

I've never been to Pendleton but I live sort of near it, and I swear I've heard stories about it having a big kkk presence that went on much longer than you might have expected.

Weird. We lived near Pilot Rock. Do you know it?

I used to eat at sambos when I was a kid. Very scared of the dude in the tiger costume, according to my mom. I guess they all got turned into Denny's and coco's. From wikipedia:

Sambo's is a restaurant, formerly an American restaurant chain, started in 1957 by Sam Battistone, Sr. and Newell Bohnett. Though the name was taken from portions of the names of its founders, the chain soon found itself associated with The Story of Little Black Sambo. Battistone, Sr. and Bohnett capitalized on the coincidence by decorating the walls of the restaurants with scenes from the book, including a dark-skinned boy, tigers, and a pale, magical unicycle-riding man called "The Treefriend".

apparently the original sambo's (in Santa Barbara) is still open

oh whoops I didn't see the daily beast article

That's funny, I remember the controversy. We grew up in such a liberal, PC area that it was waaay bad to eat at Sambo's. I had to eat there once and was mortified, afraid my super liberal church would get wind of it, my civil rights cred tarnished. It was like a Denny's. then Denny's got reamed for discrimination. With the Aunt Jemima suit and all, maybe pancakes are hopelessly racist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11174663/Paris-Opera-cast-refuse-to-perform-for-veiled-woman.html

Seriously, I'd be happier in a world were niqabs were a thing of the past but I would be also quite happy if an opera choir didn't mind my clothing enough to refuse to perform and make a huge deal out of it. This reeks of typical french islamophobia, subtly veiled under woman rights issues and it makes me sick.

i remember eating at sambos! Been a helluva long time.

There used to be a Sambo's over where the Walgreen's is now. They tried to pass off Sambo as being some sort of Indian boy, but we knew.

The high school Denny's was never the same once they replaced the cigarette vending machine with one of those stuffed animal crane games.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, January 13, 2006 11:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I remember drinking the most refreshing glass of water in that Sambo's. Maybe I was a kid and had never bothered to drink water in a restaurant before.

I just found this in a box of pictures and letters. From Pendelton, Oregon, c. 1979.

I came across a cache of old Sambo's

my mom worked at a Sambo's when I was little (prob. 1978-1979). They had classic country on the jukebox and one of the waitresses gave me a stuffed rabbit for christmas.

I mean this is like... not v good, right? If not deliberate then at least pretty unfortunate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8x81Rpl_FA

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-stein-obama-racist

Wow that dude has aged badly

he's about 70. his ideas sure haven't aged well.

"ideas"

ideology and trivia

Has there been discussion of that Lena Dunham/Lil Jon vote spot that ran recently? IDK if it's overtly racist, but something subtly rubbed me the wrong way about it, with the 'voters' being mostly white or at least college-y looking. Maybe it's just a spot narrowly targeted to that demographic and I'm reading too much into it, but it felt a little too much like Lil Jon was a prop.

tbf when is Lil Jon not a prop

I think also it being lena dunham using him as a prop especially irked me

so fucking pissed off right now

http://kstp.com/news/stories/S3612199.shtml?cat=1

http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2014/11/gang-sign-story-backfires-on-kstp/

Gang sign vs. The lindy england

this station specializes in this shit....called up their news hotline to complain, they are so concerned about "welfare fraud" it has it's own goddamn menu option

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/kstp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBLBxb29maw

Anti-Black Pete activists go to London dressed as Black Pete to record the response of people confronted with blackface. It will make fuck all the difference in the Netherlands probably but I applaud the responses. Oh, and they bump into Russell Brand by accident.

New niece for me! So looking at baby clothes (and of course you should always dress babes up as animals) and I noticed this url. Why is 'hiphip' a tag here?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Infant-Halloween-Costumes-Baby-Romper-Jumpsuit-Animal-Cosplay-Onesie-Suit-Hiphop-Monkey-Guenon-Animal-Style0-3/2031844800.html

For the same reason I told everyone not to get my kids monkey stuff

I would back slowly away from that website. There may some cultural confusion with some of the Chinese retailers creating their own English translations, but

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/High-quality-cool-black-Monkey-boy-Mascot-Costume-Character-Halloween-Costumes-Fancy-Dress-Suit-Free-Shipping/32222574868.html

Holy.

Anti-Black Pete activists go to London dressed as Black Pete to record the response of people confronted with blackface. It will make fuck all the difference in the Netherlands probably but I applaud the responses. Oh, and they bump into Russell Brand by accident.

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, November 12, 2014 11:50 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

... wat

anti-racists dress up as racists to prove ...

That it's racist. Point is, people in Netherlands don't consider it racist. They are not alone. In Denmark, we had a theater company doing an 'anti-racist' project where people would be put in blackface to learn about how it feels to be black. As one angry Swedish black man put in when they tried to take it to Sweden: 'If people want to know what being black feels like THEN ASK ME!!!'

There are still many Danes who thought it was an ok anti-racist project, even though it objectively pissed off a lot of black people.

the didactic plebs who made the video chose well by going to a country where disfavour for explicit cartoon racism is perfectly compatible with structural racism possibly more acute than in the netherlands itself

people would be put in blackface to learn about how it feels to be black

this is just so abysmally clueless that it is hard to comprehend. but then, it was done by theater people, so...

the netherlands had a black national football team manager sixteen years ago whereas today a dutch manager being appointed by an english football team singlehandedly raised the proportion of black professional football managers in england to a healthy 3%

http://black-face.com/blackface-world.htm

an 'anti-racist' project where people would be put in blackface to learn about how it feels to be black.

This is hilarious.

"I was greeted with scorn and ugly looks wherever I went. Power to the People."

That's funny, I remember the controversy. We grew up in such a liberal, PC area that it was waaay bad to eat at Sambo's. I had to eat there once and was mortified, afraid my super liberal church would get wind of it, my civil rights cred tarnished. It was like a Denny's. then Denny's got reamed for discrimination. With the Aunt Jemima suit and all, maybe pancakes are hopelessly racist.

― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Saturday, October 25, 2014 5:57 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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