rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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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sry to interrupt i haven't read this thread in a month and that post was too much

if it was a quote-unquote politically correct area there would be no "Sambo's" it is true

"So we walk into Sambo's wearing our blackface makeup, and the manager wouldn't seat us! Not even at the counter!"

That is bullshit, but do keep up with the hostility. No one ever lived in a politically correct area. Do go on with your strange obsessions. It's the truth, your poor logic won't change it. You're transparent, and I'm not afraid of you. I've had real-life KKK members. Do try to be one tenth as scary.

That is bullshit, but do keep up with the hostility. No one ever lived in a politically correct area. Do go on with your strange obsessions. It's the truth, your poor logic won't change it. You're transparent, and I'm not afraid of you. I've had real-life KKK members. Do try to be one tenth as scary.

― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Thursday, November 13, 2014 9:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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This thread has had many posts where I have to just sit back and blink for a few minutes like I'm not sure if we've collectedly decided to just ignore them or

baiting I M Losted is a bad look tho

yeah i'm done

You're transparent, and I'm not afraid of you.

Did you just call me a ghost?

"politically correct"
2014

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Black_Like_Me.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me

And the movie version. (Seen the movie, never read the book.)

http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/6061/445058_020.jpg

^ yeah that's common knowledge right? i read about it several times in grade school (always laudatory)

Popular in its day, and very well received. But James Whitmore passing as black was o_O to me even in the early 70s.

it provided a great cory matthews zinger

I read the book. He supposedly took a bunch of tanning pills.

Which you'd think every white theater major would've tried by now.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/819dgLLVR7L._SL1500_.jpg

?

honestly never occurred to me but i guess so

Haha wow how has this never occurred to me