We are not in the most racially diverse neighborhood. I can only imagine how our few black neighbors (or other sensible adults) reacted. To make the situation potentially more interesting, a bunch of kids from my hometown who are natrually dark complexioned came into the neighborhood to trick-or-treat. If those kids are anything like the generation of kids I grew up with, they would've pummelled the little Bens on sight.
We also had a couple Ghostbusters (get one culture of your own, kids!), but neither one went as Winston.
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Er, is this an ultra-politically correct euphemism for "black", or do you mean something else? As for the question itself, I know your society is far more delicate towards these issues (and for a reason) than mine, and I know that the historical context of blackface is quite problematic, but still, it's kids dressing up as sportsman. If they'd dress up as a generic black man in order to appear scary, that would've been a different case. Most likely they don't know the connotations of blackface (then again, their parents should) and they're probably just imitating an idol of theirs, so I don't think you should overreact.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
No, not at all -- it was a way to emphasize the absurdity.
I don't think I'm overreacting. I wouldn't let my kid do it. If he intended to do it, I would see the situation as a golden opportunity to instill in him a healthy amount of white guilt.
There was also a group of girls walking around like extras from ONJ's "Physical" video. They had a boombox that played Wham and the Weather Girls. As the missues observed, we had been thrown into that episode of Buffy.
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― bidfurd__, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
for fuck sake!
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Tasteless, stupid, unfunny, lamentable and idiotic. Anyone beat up for same deserves it.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Okay, substitute "instill healthy amount of white guilt" with "talk about blackface." I was being a little silly.
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Why unexpectedly? We may have different tastes, but does that make me an idiotic asshole?
What's a "lawn jockey"?
Unfortunate racial epithet based on dated front lawn ornamentation.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Papa Lazarou, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
the fact that you even find these comparible is lamentable. the kids were dressing up as a character they (presumably) admire. a guy at Optimo this weekend was dressed up as Don King - his costume was hysterical.
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/houtsone/lakupekka.jpg
(x-post)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost ahahhahahahahahha
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Surrounded By White Madness) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (The Point Remains) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
xp
dan doesn't seem to agree with you!
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
No, I meant literally dated....as, to the best of my knowledge, they don't make them (the actual lawn ornaments) anymore.....though drive around Long Island and you'll still spot a few, not to mention in midtown Manhattan.....
http://orient-express.lbwa.verio.net/onyc/images/220images/onyc_220_entrance.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
No, probably not. Since most of our ethnic minorities have been here for thirty years or less, I assume American culture is far more sensitive to racial imagery as related to, say, Asian or African people. We do have seem older ethnic groups such as the Sami and the Roma people, but they obviously don't show up at all in American culture.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
i don't know if he does but, if so, it does call into question your use of the phrase "De Facto".
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Blackface is de facto offensive. My issue is this: should a child dressed up as Ben Wallace for Halloween be considered blackface? Exactly what does that say about how you view people like Ben Wallace that that was your first reaction to seeing the child? In my mind, this is the racist liberal issue rearing its ugly head again.
― Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
dan i think the point is that blackface is de facto offensive -- _ (...), November 1st, 2005.
which i agree is debateable but i think most americans would agree -- _ (...), November 1st, 2005.
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Er, I'd argue that in the kid's mind it isn't.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes, I think that that entire line of thought is incredibly dehumanising to black people because the point SHOULD be that we are all people and therefore should get treated the same. There shouldn't be anything special or taboo about a child wanting to dress up as a highly visible and incredibly popular basketball player. Basically, by blanket-calling every single instance where someone wears makeup darker than their skin tone "blackface", you are helping to peretuate the racial divide in this country.
Finally, don't fucking tell me what I should find offensive, white boy.
― Dan (Don't Try That Shit With Me) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
And would it be offensive for a girl to dress up like a man?
face-ah.
xposts. Dan, Ken, OTM
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
(xxxx-post)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
You know, I've been at ballparks where these are given away to all kinds of people...
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
in which actual context is this not offensive?
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
and she was japanese, rather than chinese :((((
also i was crawling out of a "sony" brand TV which is a japanese TV manufacturer when i really should have done with say "Konka" brand, just so that i don't appear to have stereotyped Japan with the Sony brand when actualy it just happened to be a famous TV brand used to signify my cardboard box to be a TV. :((((((((((((((
i was a racist dick :(
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Also wtf kind of person gives someone else shit for wearing a Negro Leagues hat?
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
and i sometimes wear tshirts with english writings on them :((((
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't know that we are. Why do you think this ethan?
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Honoring the Negro Leagues is obviously a good and necessary thing, but again, there's the context. It sort of irritates me in the same way as the NYFD hats worn outside of NY by people who would never be firefighters in a million years. I need to elaborate here...
Hopefully I can explain more and answer other stuff when I'm off work.
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Er, I wasn't saying that image was not offensive at all in Finland. What I was saying is that the lack of black population in Finland made people ignorant of the connotations of such images. Sure, most folks would recognize it as crude caricature of a black man, but they didn't probably know about the history of such racist images, so they didn't see it that much more offensive as a caricature of, say, a Frenchman with a big nose and a beret, or an American with a cowboy hat and a revolver. So, while the image probably offended, say, Africans visiting Finland, it most likely wasn't that offensive to the majority of people because they didn't know the historical context of it.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
q.v.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005UWAB.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/images/blackloiscover.jpg
http://www.impawards.com/1986/posters/soul_man.jpg
― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, god forbid people's fashion choices go to support worthy organizations instead of purchasing their 17th Yankees hat (now in Lime Green!)...?
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
This movie offended me because the two hapless black voodoo victims did not end up teaming up with the lily white protagonists against the wicked creole voodoo! That would have made this so much better.
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Hence my usage of words "most" and "majority".
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.cinema-city.com/bamboozled.jpg
― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
New Era gets the money in both cases.
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
are you trying to say "africans" are also faggos who love their socialist education systems?
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
The stamp shows a "character very loved in Mexico and that has absolutely nothing discriminatory about it," the president said. "Frankly I don't understand the reaction."
...
In May, Mr. Fox initially refused to apologize for a comment stating that Mexicans cross the border to take jobs that "not even blacks" want. The comment led to a meeting with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and an eventual rapprochement.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
BECKER!
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
It's making me wonder if you were to ask people what are the first three physical 'characteristics' they would associate with Ben Wallace, one of the three answers would be 'dark skin' or similar. And whether that is wrong and the sort of thing to be discouraged (skin colour tending to be one of the first 'characteristics' when Caucasians describe non-Caucasians).
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
ethan you're grasping now. Also, I saw that South Park episode too.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Are the Birmingham Black Barons playing in a new stadium with their cut?
I really doubt that New Era has put all of their profits from Negro Leagues merchandise into the pockets of the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Negro Leagues vets. I could see a few museum displays, perhaps.
(I WOULD REALLY LIKE SOMEONE TO PROVE ME WRONG HERE.)
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost yeah no, I know you wouldn't have an issue with that, I have no fucking clue what Andy is on about.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
ok NOW you're stretching
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
What about a FUBU shirt?
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
maybe you should have compared blacking up with dressing up as a ghost, and it would have made it more clear.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Jesus god, Dan & Ally Oll Korrect here.
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
You haven't explained how a kid dressing up as his favorite athlete is racism in any way, still. Besides making a really tenuous complete-lack-of-perspective comparison to actual racists pretending to be blacks and doing minstrel shows. Which, like I said, is kind of a disservice to any kind of civil rights/anti-racism cause. This is the kind of bullshit that gets people mired into ridiculous arguments because, you know what, no, most Americans would not find a kid doing this inexcusable. He's NOT dressed up as Hitler. He's NOT dressed up as, say, OJ Simpson.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Haha I am Duran Duran.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
if you draw this conclusion from a kid who dressed up as a sports person who happens to be black. then perhaps YOU are the one who is stereotyping???
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
It's on the same level as when my high-school cafeteria, to celebrate Black History Month, served fried chicken and greens.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
we aren't talking about some fucking douchebag with shoe polish on his face and bright red lipstick and white out around his eyes waving around a bucket of goddamn chicken, you're talking about a kid, probably under the age of 12, wearing a basketball jersey and some darker-colored foundation! You don't see at all how the reaction this is garnering from a couple of you is a little off?
Like I said, I can understand being like wtf, or saying something to the kid like "Some people might find that offensive," I mean I really wouldn't want my kid doing that just because of that, but this level of outrage? Comparing it to Hitler and rape? Jesus christ.
I gotta say, ken OTM.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.papalazarou.co.uk/pd/images/postcard3.jpg
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
wtf?
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Reeves & Mortimer blacking up to play Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye with Geordie accents, WAS deemed offensive by some though (they then had to do the act minus paint).
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.manmademultimedia.com/magazine/news/ent/2004/2/All_Star.jpgs/Ben_Wallace.jpg
I mean how do you wear a Ben Wallace costume without at least doing the hair--which was already labelled as being "uncomfortable" when white people don the 'fro wigs. WTF, I mean a kid walking around with just a Ben Wallace jersey on and nothing else to signify, "I am Ben Wallace," that's a lame ass costume. I wouldn't give that kid a 3 Musketeers, that's for sure.
I mean, I'm not saying that he should've necessarily gone the whole hog with it (I mean I am the person who already said WTF, Ben Wallace?) but I mean how do the two of you recommend someone do a Ben Wallace costume without putting on ANYTHING that might be offensive to you?
Or do white people have to dress as white people, blacks as blacks, men as men, women as women, etc etc etc? I don't see anything wrong with a totally innocent Halloween costume.
xpost no one is pretending anything, we're telling you you are overreacting HARDCORE.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
the point SHOULD be that we are all people and therefore should get treated the same.
which can be used to excuse a lot of foul, racist shit
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Can I echo that?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
This I can understand more than the Halloween costume thing...I mean why not just hire black comedians? Saturday Night Live does this as well and I'm not that fond of it, especially since the guy they always "black up" is such an awful unfunny douchebag whose impressions are all crap. I mean seriously just hire some more black comedians, people.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― sfxxxx, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
there have never been that many good ones in the UK [/'racist']
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
i can
― sfxxx, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost no I mean that one dude, the one who sometimes does Bill Clinton, who is that guy? Whatever he is, he's crap.
xxpost ETHAN NO ONE IS SAYING THAT, WE'RE SAYING THAT YOU ARE OVERREACTING, IS THIS QUESTIONABLE? YES. IS THIS "INEXCUSABLE"? NO, IT'S A KID DRESSING UP AS HIS HERO. SHOULD HIS PARENTS HAVE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THIS? PROBABLY, THEY SHOULD'VE ASKED HIM TO NOT DRESS UP AS BEN WALLACE. THE CONCLUSIONS YOU ARE DRAWING FROM THIS EVENT AND PEOPLE SAYING "LISTEN IT'S NOT AS BAD AS THAT" ARE REALLY KIND OF CRAZY. ALSO YOU ARE WHITE. ALSO YOU ARE TEAMING UP WITH A DUDE WHO IS BOTHERED BY PEOPLE WHO WEAR NEGRO LEAGUE HATS AND AFROS ON HALLOWEEN WHICH KIND OF PROBABLY MAKES YOUR ARGUMENT LOOK MORE CRAP.
posted in caps cos I don't think you are getting it that we're just saying "You are overreacting."
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost i am not "teaming up" with dude, but i agree about afro wigs on halloween as stated above
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
if there weren't a protest, you probably didn't know about it?
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
-- miccio (anthonyisrigh...) (webmail), November 1st, 2005 11:28 AM. (miccio) (later) (link)
http://xanga.projectblogsphere.com/images/video-southParkMrJefferson.jpg
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.dreammovies.net/affiches1/soulman.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Huh?
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
And I mean if they didn't "black up" but kept on the synthetic afros to signify Ben Wallace, is that ok? Cos Andy is saying it isn't. I mean is it just not ok for them to be Ben Wallace for Halloween, or is it just the blackface?
xpost, I guess not. Why is THAT bad? I've seen white dudes with actual 'fros, you know.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
that its an 8 year old most likely emulating someone he admires rather than a frat kid at "pimps and hos night" or Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd blame rock music for that, personally.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
This is probably the most ostentatiously offensive thing written on this thread so far. Good job!
― Dan (I Won't Play Your Field Nigger, Either) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (PEACE OUT) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I still wanna know if it's just impossible for a kid to do this at all, minus the blackface. Why would it be bad for a kid to put on a wig and a jersey and be Ben Wallace?
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
well, i don't think i need to point out the irony of this, but what the hell. "give your peers some respect or fuck off"... um, okay... and, to be fair, i thought that
and yeah i dont blame the kid but its the parents job to teach them whats deemed racially insensitive just as it is to teach them all cultural standards.
shows some sympathy to the kid. i think alex's comments that a child deserves to be beaten up are far more offensive than anything else here.
― sfxxx, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
haha jess are you his dad?
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
is it perfectly inoffensive to say that black people are predisposed to being able to write with big paragraphs?
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, right.
― Dan (Like I Buy That) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
the birmingham black barons became the birmingham barons, and are the AA affiliate of the chicago white sox (famously, you may remember michael jordan getting some at-bats as a baron). their stadium isn't incredibly old, i'm gonna guess it was built in '89 or '90? it's in hoover, tho.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
i'd like to reaffirm my "show your peers some respect or fuck off" stance.
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
and I'd appreciate a cut'n'paste of dan's comment that thinking of minstresly when seeing a kid in blackface is racist, as I can't seem to find it.
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (djperr...), November 1st, 2005.
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
xxpost
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
"pretending that theres no racist context for blackface" = You haven't explained how a kid dressing up as his favorite athlete is racism in any way, still.
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost wearing a freaking miniskirt was a controversial act at one time. Also there are plenty of white people and jewish people with "nappy hair," labelling them as assholes for choosing a hairstyle is a little odd. Please explain to me how someone can go in costume as Ben Wallace without sporting a wig.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost Ethan no one is condoning all people ever doing things for imitative purposes, is the thing here. I mean you just said you would maybe even laugh at a kid dressed up like that and I'd bet you wouldn't assume it was racism rearing its ugly head.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
WHERE IS DAVID STERN TO MAKE SURE THE BAD BLACK BALLPLAYERS WEAR SUITS?!????!?
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
I find the rasta cap wig thing really offensive. Especially since it's usually paired with the "irie, mon. watch me smoke my big spliff" mock patois. I gave a lot of evil looks over that at the Halloween party at was at over the weekend. Kids, adults, whoever need to be confronted and set straight on that shit a lot more often.
xpost And the "jewfro" = an afro wig is totally ridiculous.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― sfxxxx, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
were you dressed up as .. evil?
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
ts: comically overstated misanthropy vs. noblesse oblige
― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
No, I was Sarah Dash from Labelle. I'm naturally evil.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
well I mean that's true.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
cf. the miasppropriation of Joel Chandler Harris, etc.
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE
AHHHHHHHH
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
also we just split the bill and didn't argue.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
And no, the "jewfro" thing isn't "totally ridiculous" because ethan just said nonblacks with fros are "assholes"! I mean I think jess and I have a right to point out two prominent froed out Jews who probably weren't trying to ironically co-opt black culture if y'all have the right to call them "assholes."
So, again, ethan, are you saying that people just shouldn't go as Ben Wallace to Halloween (without the blackface)? This is patently offensive no matter what? I mean I agree people shouldn't go to Halloween as Ben Wallace cos quite frankly, as I keep saying, that's a pretty crap costume. But I'm asking, should the kid just not have gone as Ben Wallace (again, assuming no blackface), or is there some alternative, Ben Wallace with shaved head, that you are thinking of?
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class is a really wonderful book.
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
I am 8. There is some stupid school lipsync contest. My then best-friend and I want to do "Old Man River." His parents tell him it would be racially offensive to do so! I am 12. A good friend who is an actor is cast as MLK in this stupid school play/pagent (yeah, the jr high is nearly all white and latino, so virtually no black kids to be found anyway) and he's told that he can't do his spot-on MLK voice imitation because to talk too much like MLK, being white and all, becuz that would be "racially offensive." So he has to end up giving the speech in this stupid nasal dorky voice.
These things both pissed me off to no end.
In unrelated news, I went as Arnold Schwarzenegger (omg! fake-austrian accent! offensive!) to a halloween party on saturday and threatened to kick out all the hispanic folx. I think this was taken in good fun.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
That bit you got right, certainly.
I wouldn't let my child wear blackface, or anything like that. I don't understand why anyone would let their kid go out like that. Maybe in some world of complete equality of oppurtunity, equal rights, equal status, it would be ok, but we very much don't live in that world.
I can remember the black & white minstrel show being on bbc1 every week, sat night iirc. It was very popular, though we didn't used to watch it.
When we were kids in junior school (this would have been in the early 1970s, I think 1972.) one year the school nativity play was done in blackface, ie as if the play was done by the black & white minstrels. This was the teachers idea. I remember my parents and others not being very keen on the idea. Nevertheless it went ahead.
If I think about it now, I feel kind of dizzy, what the fuck, you know? Why the fuck did they do that? It would be nice to think that people in 2005 had more sense than people in 1972, anyway. Obviously some people don't.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
well i think a white kid in a ben wallace jersey with an afro wig should be welcomed, and i can think of plenty examples where that type of stuff is interesting and funny and ok (one of the funny things about this whole argument was that i actually stuck up for ted danson's whoopi-written celebrity roast, or the concept at least - not actually funny but i dont think it crossed any lines that good comedy shouldnt, different of course if its johnny carson or colin quinn in blackface)
ok. That's all I'm saying though seriously Ted Danson sucks.
Also if you're allowed to play Ann Coulter I am too, dude. Don't get too crazy on the idea that you gotta explain power distribution problems! :P
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
When I was a kid (7-8), my favorite movie was "The Wiz." My school friend Kianga and I, along with a few other kids, put on an playacting production of the show in school at one point. I played the wis, and tried my best to dress up like Richard Pryor, including an afro wig and blackface. My motivations were totally positive--I loved the movie and was trying to emulate something I loved. Kianga played Dorothy--she was black, and didn't use blackface. Neither one of us had any idea what the context of blackface was.
The more interesting questions to me revolve around whether *the parents* recognized the faux pas here, and what that means. I wouldn't let my kid do it either, but the problem comes when I try to explain to him or her why doing it is wrong--in a better world, where the historical context of blackface was less clearly terribly, it seems that my child could take exactly the *wrong* message away from being forbidden to dress up as Ben Wallace of whoever, and that message could perpetuate for yet another generation the fallacy that there is something a priori wrong/different/lesser/frightening/whatever about people of different races.
I mean obviously, we're not in that world, but what's the right solution here?
― J (Jay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― sfxxx, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost thank you ally thank you stelfox!!
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
You know as well as everyone else that he meant wigs and has even since backed off that, so what are you even getting at?
Why's Ben Wallace with a wig and no blackface such a crap costume? I mean, it's Halloween. No one is especially authentic. I had foam abs on my old Batman costume, but it was recognizable enough that I was Batman though the whole thing was made of spandex and foam. A white kid with a Ben Wallace type afro wig, the Ben Wallace jersey, and saying "I'm Ben Wallace" is really authentic/recognizable enough.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― sfxxx, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's why I keep asking how old these kids were cos that can make a big difference in this argument, quite frankly as to whether their parents condoned it, just how innocent it might or might not have been, etc.
xpost J I think that's what Dan was getting at, about how it's just as likely a kid might take away the wrong message as the right one, dependent on WHY he wanted to dress that way, how old he was, how it was explained exactly, etc etc.
xxpost ethan like I said part of the problem seriously was your (well admittedly somewhat overblown argument tho really that's how we roll) argument getting conflated with someone else's argument as well that it's not even ok for white kids to wanna wear negro league stuff and feeling guilty for having red and black and green beads. The lines were purty blurry for a while in my head who was saying what actually, but that is cos I need more coffee.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― sfxxx, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I was Batman for like 3 years in a row in high school.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Um, it's not (other than the fact that I don't like the Pistons!), that was my point! That without the blackface is ok! If you reread the original post, it was stated that this wouldn't be ok.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
You mean that picture alone? Yeah, it is kinda funny.
All of these blog entries have taught me that apparently, blackface is still a common practice. I mean, "Shirley Q. Liquor". Good grief.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
And yes Ben Wallace is a RUBBISH Halloween costume because he is just a normal human.
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
fuck that, things aren't ever that rigid! There are many explicable and inoffensive contexts for use of a word like "nigger" (swap in 'spic' or 'faggot' or 'bitch' or what-have-you…) be they scholastic, illustrative, recaimed, or as emblematic of a particular attitude or speech pattern. Provided they're used with an awareness of their history and context, and among people who understand their use as other than blankly derisive or for labelling purposes, I hardly see any reason why we should continue to avoid them at all costs. It's privileging in this way that continues to keep them powerful and hurtful.
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Such a stupid blanket statement.
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
if i were a parent perhaps i will, as well as teaching them not to offend people with blackface etc., also to teach them not to take offence themselves of these things that are, fairly outdated ideas/connotations.
i think this would make the world a better place.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
surely that's a bonus.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
-- jdubz (dr_...), November 1st, 2005.
yes, we know stelfox can do much better
― ILX, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
plz note also said creation and consumption occurs against a backdrop of of nasty homophobia as well
― J (Jay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.screenselect.co.uk/images/products/7/1327-large.jpg
I'll get my coat.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
you can kinda see how some fucked up kid might draw the conclusion that hitler would make a good costume
better ban GTA while you're at it
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
1) algierz baller caricature stuff
i got given a heap of this stuff and i do admit, i only ever bust it out when the rest of my clothes smell, because i feel a complete twat in it!
― sfxxx, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
u musn't have been here long
― comment, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
This is precisely what I mean: bad analogies.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost I do understand what "choke on cock" means though.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
It depends how you're defining "cross-dressing". This is a HUGE subject, and needs its own thread, if it doesn't already have one.
I know I'm probably stating the obvious, but dressing in women's clothing because it fulfills some inner need or because it feels right are very different than dressing up in women's clothes to set out to mock women. For the most part, I'd say that people of either sex dressing in a manner that subverts traditional gender-roles serves to challenge patriachy, rather than to reaffirm it.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
That said, I think you might have trouble proving that transgendered individuals actually feel oppressed by gender signifiers they have chosen.
― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
It was in the UK -- I don't remember how their crazy grading system worked.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link
transverstism!=drag
And transgender issues are another thing altogether, and don't really belong in the same conversation.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
your assumption would be wrong, for i know several people who quite enjoy choking on cock
― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link
...and I'll reflect on this the next time I suck on a beernut.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
The situation you give is "drag", if I'm understanding your question correctly. The distinction is that the one is for "show" and the other is for more personal need.
I still don't really see that there's anything intrinsically offensive in a man wearing a dress. If it IS used to mock, that's another scenario entirely.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.hrwiki.org/images/d/d9/StrongMad_BenWallace.PNG
― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Alfred Soto (sotoal...) (webmail), Today 10:18 AM. (Alfred Soto) (later) (link)
Explain to me how this is a bad analogy.
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost There is at least one religion where it's sacrilegious to write the name of God fully. It might not be offensive to you, but it is to them.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Just unfunny like just about everything else on that show.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
To be honest I think my annoyance has a lot to do with method. If someone's supposed to be a specific black person, and they've done a decent/realistic job with the makeup, that's not so bothersome. When people do their faces in all-around jet black apart from the lips, they look like minstrels and piss me off. When people just smear shoe polish around their faces like that's really, really hilarious, that pisses me off even more.
NB I sometimes think people who get offended by Apu are dipping into the backward-racist category: Apu doesn't really have any negative stereotypes associated with him! I mean, cooking him up for the purpose of running the convenience store is a little obvious, but beyond that they've made him pretty much the most dignified character on the show -- cf when his religion gets classified as "other" and he says "I am Hindu, there are nearly a billion of us."
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― captin crunchheart (dr g), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link
the kid is obviously reacting to and absorbing the media he is growing up around. there are probably basketball player posters all over his room. maybe he is trying to inhabit that space, to bridge the gap between his white suburban existence and his black sports heroes.
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
This is completely, totally and absolutely OTM.
― Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
That's what the kids looked like last night. Good-natured Ben Wallace appreciation by kids who don't know any better, yes, but also troubling negligence/ignorance on the part of the parents.
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
that and his parents dropped $100 on a ben wallace jersey.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link
It's too easy to picture an SNL writers' meeting where all the funny scripts have been read and everyone's in a good mood, and then Hammond stands up to say, "Hey, what if Donald Trump made a guest appearance on a soap opera?", chilling down the entire room.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link
You know Andy, you could have avoided all of the fighting and nonsense on this thread by SAYING THAT at the beginning!
― Dan ("Synthetic Skin Tone" = "Blackfaced Minstrel"???) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link
This whole debate could have been avoided if only the kid had carved a Ben Wallace pumpkin instead of wearing the costume.
― So so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
dressing as hitler = baddressing in a KKK hood = baddressing in minstrel blackface = bad
White kid dressing in dark makeup as a specific popular black basketball player on Halloween = who gives a shit? It's Halloween, and it's not a stereotype! I don't see any connection between a halloween tradition of dressing up, and the stereotyped minstrel culture that had it's heyday in what, the 40's, and hasn't been popular or acceptable for generations.
I want to hear what you think about this one. I dressed as a mexican bandito for halloween. I did that because I just happened to have an inflatable cactus and an authentic vintage mexican sombrero laying around (that was in my grandma's basement.) I wore a rug for a poncho, a gun and a fake mustache too. I wasn't able to acquire a bullet bandolier. So I bought 10 cans of refried beans, cut off the labels and turned them into a bandolier.
― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― So so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Umm, he did make a guest appearance on a soap opera. Just, you know, sayin'...
― captin crunchheart (dr g), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Everything is offensive to somebody. Full stop.
In fact, my incomplete sentence above just offended the National Grammar Society... Oh! The horror!
I mean Jesus Fucking Christ, what is this world coming to. Oh, wait... I mean golly gosh, no, wait, I mean...
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
What happens next year if I go out trick-or-treating as Watermelon Hitler? I'll tell you what would happen: I'd be trapped in my Watermelon Bunker while my neighbors try to kick my ass.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link
"A passion of Christs"
― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
One can yell "Chaplin! Chaplin!" when the mob sets upon you.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
I mean, it's weird. I'm half Goan. 99% of the time I *hate* seeing white people doing comedy Indian accents. I'm not offended by Apu from the Simpsons - everyone in the Simpsons is a caricature and he's a more positive one than most of the others. Likewise, I'm not offended by Ben Kingsley in Gandhi - another tricky one, he's of Indian descent, he still LOOKS white most of the time, he's still blacked up in the role. They could have got a 'proper' Indian actor to play him. Where do you draw that line?
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link
(Or words to that effect...)
I mean, who the fuck is anyone to dictate what other people can or cannot be offended by? It's a matter of common courtesy not to cross that line unless you have a very good reason (ie a serious political point to make). And "it's just a bit of fun" is not one of them.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
http://is1.okcupid.com/users/570/250/5712517942420203273/p1097418461.jpg
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― emilys. (emilys.), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
It's a matter of common courtesy not to cross that line
Who defines what/where that 'line' is?
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan I., Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (ILE's Invisible Man) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Ron Mael! Ron Mael!
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Have you tried buying a modestly proportioned fake afro lately?
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― sfxxx, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link
but this is v different from the 'blackface' scenario. these kids weren't actually in blackface, as per tracer, but the thread has kind of worked on that assumption. anyway, 'blackface' has a cultural resonance that 'randomly dressing up as a Bangladeshi' doesn't quite have. it would depend entirely on the context.
as for "the 95% of people you might come across whose views you DO NOT HAVE A FUCKING CLUE ABOUT" well, this is race-unspecific isn't it?
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― So so Krispie (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
(Ally's post rather crushes mine.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (My New Utopia) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
ANyway the best thing about the Randy Moss/Brandy Chastain thing was that the Mexican dude ran out and was like "THAT IS SO NOT MOSSOME!" and I was like wtf does that even mean? Real Randy Moss also squired an entire bottle of water all over Chastain. Really I'm not sure why people watch anything besides the shows that lead up to/immediately come after football games, because it's like there's no way anything that occurs in them makes sense.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
that looks pretty great, written out: afro qua afro.
anyway it's like this one interview i read with kyp from tv on the radio where the interviewer (probably white) was all "how do you get your afro to look so good?" and kyp responded with something like "it's not an afro, it's a natural. next question."
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Garcia wants to play,Green's thinkin' about his pop.Daunte busted a kneeDilfer just doesn't want to flop
Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody knows that the good guys lostI like it,I love it,I can't get enough of it...
STOP THE MADNESS.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2004/08/26/kyp_malone_guitarist_tv_on_the_radio.php
Tell us about the afro.I don?t have an afro. I wear my hair in a style called a natural. It?s what happens if you're black and you grow your hair long and don?t process it or braid it , I recommend it to anyone who has the genetic ability to rock it. It is a good barometer of who I need to take seriously in regards to their reaction towards it. It?s just fucking hair.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
'I used to have to wash it every week,' she said. 'It was just too much.'
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Second.... from the chicago tribune:
U. of C. gets rap for theme of partyWhite students' `thuggin' bash offends some blacks on campus and school is set to show why
By Jodi S. CohenTribune higher education reporterPublished November 2, 2005
By all accounts, it was a boring party in a University of Chicago dorm, attended by fewer than 20 students who sat around listening to rap music and thinking they dressed the part.
But the gathering, called a "straight thuggin'" party, has sparked a campuswide debate about race relations on the Hyde Park campus, where about 4 percent of the undergraduate students are black.
The students at the party last month, none of whom were black, said their clothing--sideways baseball caps, gold chains and pants so low that their underwear showed--was not intended to mimic a particular race. One student wore handcuffs as he lifted a bottle wrapped in a brown paper bag. They listened to rap artists 50 Cent, Nelly and the Notorious B.I.G.
Yet fallout from the party has led U. of C. president Don Randel and other top administrators to call for an open meeting next week to discuss the campus atmosphere for minority students and staff and to ask faculty members to create programs about issues raised by the party. The president of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference plans to discuss the party's potential ramifications and the university's response at a meeting Thursday.
The fear, university officials and community members say, is that the party has reinforced the feelings of isolation that some African-American students said they already feel on a campus with relatively few black students. It also could undermine the progress that Randel has made in reaching out to largely poor and minority South Side communities that surround the university.
"The issues at stake ... are larger than this one distressing episode and raise questions about the campus climate for minority students, faculty and staff," Randel and other administrators wrote in a letter e-mailed to students last week.
`Ghetto' reference disputed
The party's theme, according to the letter, was offensive and "parodied racial stereotypes based on assumptions about economically disadvantaged members of society."
The Oct. 14 party, also referred to as a "ghetto" party, was held in a four-student suite in May House, a section of the Max Palevsky dorm. It began at about 10:30 p.m. and lasted an hour. Students talked and listened to music. Some drank beer, a violation of university policy.
The party--but not its theme--was registered with the resident heads of May House. If they had known about the theme, the party would not have been authorized, said Stephen Klass, a university vice president and dean of students.
The "straight thuggin'" gathering was the second in a series of theme parties at May House. The first party celebrated the '80s. The third, which never was held, would have focused on the '90s, said freshman Natasha Hodnett, one of the students who attended the party.
Katie Brookoff, one of the hosts, said the term "ghetto" wasn't used to describe the gathering.
But days before the party, as some freshmen were dressed in costume to take pictures to publicize the event, they stopped sophomore Eve Ewing, the only black student in May House.
"They said, `We are taking pictures for our ghetto party,'" Ewing said. "At that point, they were using the word ghetto. I don't know at what point the moniker changed. When they initially presented it, they did use that term."
After hearing about the party, about a half-dozen black students decided to check it out. They arrived too late, but ran into freshman Galen Simmons on their way to the suite. He said he told them that they "would have been the most thuggin' people there," and said he meant it as a compliment.
"It was meant to say that they had appropriate clothes for the theme of the party," said Simmons, of New York City. He said that "most of us were ignorant about how our comments or actions might be taken," and suggested that the university do a better job of teaching new students about racial tensions on campus and in the community.
Several black students said they were offended by the party and by pictures that temporarily were posted on a Web site.
`No bad intentions'
"I was just totally flabbergasted," said sophomore Kristiana Colon of Chicago, who graduated from Whitney Young High School in Chicago. "If that is what they think hip-hop looks like or black people look like, that is a serious problem."
Colon, one of the students who showed up late to the party, also found it offensive that a group of mostly whites would romanticize a "thug" culture.Hodnett said "there were no bad intentions at all" and the party was intended to imitate pop culture, not objectify a group of people.
"In our opinions, be they ignorant or not, everyone thought that it was a cross-culture thing and it was more mocking MTV culture and dressing up in baggy clothes and listening to rap or hip-hop music," said Hodnett, of Palatine. "We are being used as guinea pigs and being used to make a statement about the racial dynamics on campus."
Klass, the dean of students, would not say whether any students faced disciplinary action, but Brookoff said they hadn't. He said the party has sparked a needed discussion, to be held Tuesday at Hutchinson Commons, about how to improve the campus climate for minorities.
There are relatively few black students at U. of C. compared to the nearby neighborhoods. Of the 4,667 students enrolled in the undergraduate college this fall, 4 percent, or 192 students, are African-American.
"The issues here are broader than the party.... The real issue here is what are the conditions that minority students and faculty face on a regular basis," Klass said. "This is a bit of an ah-ha moment. They are saying this is an example of the kinds of things that students of color have to face not just on campus but everywhere."
Community ties questioned
Faculty and residents of Hyde Park also said they wondered whether the party would affect campus-community relations. Randel has led efforts in recent years to improve relations with the South Side community, including opening a second charter school this fall and three more schools in coming years.
"The young people, if they are venturing out of campus, it is not to any of the communities that they were making fun of. They are not seeing any of the people who they think would be thugs," said Rolisa Tutwyler, who works at the university and lives in Hyde Park.
Amanda Lewis, a professor of sociology and African-American studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said parties like the one at U. of C. occur when people use cultural symbols and slang terms like "ghetto" and "thuggin'" without understanding the historical and societal significance.
"Universities have more work to do to make sure students have a realistic understanding of the world we live in," Lewis said.
Brookoff, who grew up in Memphis and had been a student at U. of C. for less than a month, said she has received a crash course on race relations.
"I know most of us are learning more about respect and being sensitive to other people," she said. "We want everyone to feel welcome around here."
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
it's seriously that low? that's fucking pathetic, esp. given its location.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― ........, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
this thread is all about hypothetical racism rather than actual racism.
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
NOT UNDERWEAR! DO THEY HAVE NO SHAME? Will no one think of the whale-tails?
― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link
what is this, the onion?
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
LOST AT BIRTH, RAISED BY THE DISCOMBOBULATED LEFT...
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Students talked and listened to music. Some drank beer, a violation of university policy. in particular. but, also the concept of dressing up as a rape victim for halloween. not quite sure how that would be done. or, dressing up as a basketball player for...halloween! with ilx the way it is, sometimes i wonder if these threads are elaborate hoaxes
― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Things like that are a vicious cycle. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed black prefrosh asks a current UC student what it's like. They say, "I like my classes, but there's all sorts of crap I have to deal with in other areas. If I had to choose again, I might go somewhere else." Prefrosh chooses somewhere else. Acceptance numbers fall. Etc.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― ........, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost yeah, totally, although do you really think it's cause of lack of interest?
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
u of c ain't that liberal, but yeah, it is on the SOUTH SIDE.
"white boy" is a racial slur now?
xpost - not UIC, allyzay, U of C. i doubt UIC has such pitiful numbers.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, it's certainly low compared to, say, Columbia, whose endowment isn't that much bigger than UoC's, but most or all of the Ivies have higher yields (and a greater range of undergrad programs), I believe
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
so?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― ........, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
OR, it's stupid and reductive, by and large.
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost well, Ethan is a boy who is white and I think Dan's point was that it was "cute" he was telling a black guy how black people feel about things.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― ........, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― ........, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Speaking of churches, I had a very unsettling time at a church Halloween carnival recently. My children and I attended the carnival at Pulaski Heights Methodist Church last Sunday at the invitation of a friend/member. Walking around and laughing with all of the adults was a young gentleman dressed completely in blackface, including full afro, carrying a wine glass. He may have been portraying some funny character from a movie -- I dunno, not as hip as I used to be.Its ironic, because the same day the D*G referenced a judge who had been suspended for 6 months for doing that exact same thing. Am I missing something? I'm not very PC, but it still seems rather offensive and taboo, not b/c its offensive in and of itself, but simply b/c of the cultural history including the old Step n' Fetchit bs. Kind of like flying an airplane into a building isn't offensive per se, but given the context after 9/11, it is now.Did his parents not say anything to him? What about the older adults at the church? They didn't have many AA's in attendance, so maybe the church members thought it was no big deal.
Its ironic, because the same day the D*G referenced a judge who had been suspended for 6 months for doing that exact same thing. Am I missing something? I'm not very PC, but it still seems rather offensive and taboo, not b/c its offensive in and of itself, but simply b/c of the cultural history including the old Step n' Fetchit bs. Kind of like flying an airplane into a building isn't offensive per se, but given the context after 9/11, it is now.
Did his parents not say anything to him? What about the older adults at the church? They didn't have many AA's in attendance, so maybe the church members thought it was no big deal.
Oh, and quit sniveling .......... You'll get over it soon, white boy.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― ........, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
but, again, you have no proof, unless U of C actually releases stats on minority recruitment, which i doubt they do. i'm going to assume it's a failure, perhaps it's just my pessimism, but i'm not sure what drives your defense of an institution that has never particularly seemed to try too hard, afaik, to recruit from its own community.
hstencil, you can recruit all you want, but if it's not the right situation, kids are not going to go. It's pretty much as simple as that.
sure. but there's a lot more that can be done than just half-hearted efforts at recruitment (if that's the problem - none of us knows the actual reasons the percentage is so low). i am not so sure, as gabbneb is, that the reason the percentage is so low is because qualified black students go elsewhere, esp. if it's local students we're talking about.
xpost - bard is in the middle of nowhere, not the "capitol of black america" gabbneb.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM. (Sorry for calling you a dumb ass, Ethan.)
― Dan (Blacky) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― ........, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I was picking schools that, like UoC, have unfortunately low yield rates due to their particular image. Oberlin is in the middle of nowhere, too, and is 7% black.
even just a short walk away from louis farrakhan's house
right across the street from Richard Epstein
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Probably because the majority of the posters are male? I could be wrong though.
― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
oberlin was founded by abolitionists, and is only 45 minutes from cleveland.
Also black people don't want to live around Hyde Park, either.
i always thought it was a nice neighborhood! ok, some not nice parts near it, but in general it seems pretty good.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link
you get 7% at Swarthmore too. and how long does it take to get to NYC from Bard?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Gotta Catch 'Em All) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I left immediately -- not only because it was offensive, but also EMBARRASSING that the kids did not realize how offensive it was. Also, because there were no blunts.
― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/27.html
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
And Gabbnebb, of course personality's an issue. There's nothing at all about the U of C that tries to entice students in normal ways. It's rigorous and it's weird, and that's obvious. It's hard to leave the neighborhood, and the undergrads act like grad students, and they "value neurosis." They have t-shirts that say "where fun comes to die." It self-selects for a particular kind of person, you know, and that needn't make a huge difference with white people or Asians -- the pool of qualified applicants is large enough that you can select and select your way as much as you want. But when you're fighting over the not-yet-proportionate pool of qualified black students, you don't have room to select that fiercely. To be honest I'm surprised they're even close to competitive with some of the other schools listed here.
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link
City Percentage of Total Population Gary, IN 85.3% Detroit, MI 82.8% Birmingham, AL 74.0% Jackson, MS 71.1% New Orleans, LA 67.9% Baltimore, MD 65.2% Atlanta, GA 62.1% Memphis, TN 61.9% Washington, D.C. 61.3% Richmond, VA 58.1%
does Gary count as Chicago? among the top 10 absolute largest cities, Chicago is 3rd after Detroit and Philly
(2000 numbers)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
My understanding is that the Chicago area contains the largest settlement of african-americans north of the mason-dixon. Thats not percentage but pure numbers. Not that I'm taking sides in the SEARCH FOR THE CAPITAL OF BLACK AMERICA
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
“We all assume that more progress has been made than has really been made,” says Beverly Tatum, president of Spelman College. A psychologist and the author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria and Other Conversations About Race, Tatum says: “While colleges and universities are more diverse today than they were 20 or 30 years ago, that isn’t true for public schools, many of which are more segregated. So you have a lot of young people growing up in racially segregated schools and their only exposure to other groups comes from stereotypes in the media.”
Popular culture gives these students — many of whom are clueless about those who are different from themselves — a false sense of race relations, says Charles A. Gallagher, an associate professor of sociology at Georgia State University who studies white attitudes about race.
“People who are 18 to 20 have been raised in a cultural environment with ‘Cosby Show’ re-runs, hip hop, identifying with black characters, they have gone through the multicultural training — for whatever it’s worth — in school,” he says. “They have the perception that they are not only not racist, but they share a kind of social space with non-whites through the media, so they think race doesn’t matter anymore, which just isn’t the case.”
“These pranks reflect the students’ idea that we are in a post-race society and we can make fun of everyone, and make fun of everything,” Gallagher says. “So they don’t see the difference between a ‘ghetto’ party and a toga party.”
Not only are students unaware of the feelings of minority students, many have so little sense of history that they don’t know instinctively that images like lynching aren’t going to be looked at casually by black people. And for all the talk about how colleges these days focus on multiculturalism, experts points out that most white students never study minority history in a sophisticated way or have any sustained focus on race relations.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/27/race
― _, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
well, school diversity statistics often include International stats, but I would imagine that most schools want to count Caribbean students, say, in both categories
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
As a white man, I feel threatened by lots of things: 1) people that watch TV; 2) terrorists; and gangs, to name a few. However, every time I claim that I feel “threatened” by people they tell me that because I am “white” I can take care of myself. (In fact, a black administrator once mocked me because of my fear of TV-watchers!)
(...)
There is an irony that Kuh’s comments are included in an article addressing how stereotypes continue to cause students pain, but yet he stereotypes fraternity members and their actions.
I don’t think that there is too much “institutional racism.” Instead, there may be clashes of cultures. In my culture it is considered dishonorable to blame others for one’s problems or watch TV and talk about basketball. In other cultures, watching sports, blaming people, or talking about basketball is acceptable. Is it wrong to notice that our cultures differ in so many profound ways ?
PS: I like rap music.
― _, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
and West of the Hudson
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
And that's a pretty great book...not that I needed to read it. I got placed into the all-black dorm frosh year (not by choice) and it was always the source of all sorts of uproar from the rest of the student body. One (white) kid actually argued at a forum that he came to the school for diversity and it wasn't fair for kids to be in a dorm where he couldn't see them. As if it was in Siberia and not like across campus. And as if the only reason we came to college was the bring some color into his life.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost Seriously. "I need to know how they wrap up their hair at night! Dammit...you're taking away my cross-cultural experience"
― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Is this actually true? I got my stat from Upski Wimsatt so it could be wrong, but I'm interested.
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (850 Square Foot Suite Senior Year) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
In a total offhand observational stereotyping gesture, I'd say yes: poor minority students do indeed tend to look toward pre-professional tracks more so than liberal arts. It's my experience that poor people of any sort are likely to make that decision, for obvious and healthy reasons: they're going to college to make something of themselves, and are pretty up-front about moderate wealth and social status being involved.
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
this is actually the only basis on which the supreme court has found affirmative action in higher education to be valid; thankyew rehnquist/scalia
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
very possibly right, but what if they had different ideas about what would enrich your experience?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link
in absolute 2000 numbers, NYC has twice the black population of Chicago. maybe there's something different if you start looking at different metro definitions, but i doubt it.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― discus (dr g), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
The main rebuttal of "why are all the black kids sitting together" is "well, why are all the white kids sitting together?" Just because there are less of us doesn't mean we're not just sitting with our friends like everyone else. Just because we all look the same (though we really don't) doesn't mean we are. My all-black table actually had a token, my white friend Aaron from HS, and it used to baffle the shit out of everyone. For whatever reason.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Heavens, no.
― Austin Quigl3y (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Air America (used to?) air a commercial insinuating that not allowing a white kid into a black frat would be wrong because any form of discrimination is bad, yet another case of blacks huddling into separatist comfort zones.
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Because they always break the canes during step routines?
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (I Have Lost My Shit) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Obv.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
YOU MIGHT'VE MISSED THIS ON ESPN.COM
http://search.espn.go.com/keyword/search?searchString=mike%20tyson&page=multimedia&multimediaCount=15
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
because white people don't need to be liked by Asians
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link
RACISM AT HALLOWEEN!
My friend (of indian descent) went as a grand-wizard. He got my other friend's mum to make the white hood for him.
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― KSTFUNS (Ex Leon), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link
np: vioxx ~ waterfalls of ecstacy (2 bad mice remix)
― _, Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Am I right, folks?
― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― discus (dr g), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Obligatory Bush Quote) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Tomayto, Tomahto) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
It's really, really dangerous to start thinking "racism" is solely limited to people who actively hate certain other races and take active steps to be mean to them; this describes like a really tiny portion of the history of racism, which is almost always more about having particular expectations of people or ideas about them and their status based on race. Whether those ideas are "conscious" or "ignorant" is a pretty vague spectrum based on how much people have sat down and thought about the nuances of their belief systems -- i.e., something really, really hard to judge without mind-meld technology.
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
i have never had a racial slur directed to me, though i'm sure that in various confrontations some people may have regarded my actions as having to do with being white. i have been with friends who have been racially slurred in my presence and it is indeed an incredibly awkward, hurtful and, yes, sometimes somewhat funny situation. the right idiot making the right bizarre racist comment can sound so absurd that you have to laugh at it. is that okay?
i don't think that sensitivity is always necessary to promote the alleviation of racism. i'm not asking for permission to tell racist jokes, i'm saying that it seems like there's a way to talk intelligently and with humor about race that shouldn't offend people.
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
as long as they speak english on the job *groans*
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― discus (dr g), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
He always knew how to drop science.
― KSTFUNS (Ex Leon), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
TS: ethan in "righteous outer of racists" mode vs. ethan in "THAT'S NOT FUNNY" mode
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
in other words, it's often a bad term precisely because it's connected to slavery and segregationist, and this let's everyone off the hook.
― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
No, my sense is that people are hyper-aware of the possibility of getting accused of racism, and of its consequences, and so they'd like to restrict the word to some clear-cut realm of pure hate, in order to be clear they can never accidentally stumble over into it. This is why so many white people run around complaining that black people "overuse" accusations of racism. And interestingly enough they might sometimes be right, but what's bizarre about this is how it's white people who enforce that supposed "hyper-sensitivity" -- if black people are too quick to shout racism, you'd think you'd more often see frank racial discussions in which people actually stood up and said they didn't think the accusation was unwarranted. I mean, this is a side-issue, but it's odd to me that people will claim blacks "over-accuse" of racism, but not, like, grow some figurative balls about it: I'm seriously still amazed that when that guy in D.C. used the word "niggardly" and everyone got angry, his supervisors and colleagues actually hemmed and hawed and tried to be sensitive and placate -- instead of just saying "sorry, it's a word, it means something else, look it up."
So I suppose my question is this: how is it that like 80% of this country's population can live in weird irrational fear of being called racist by some little subset of 10% of the remainder? How can people claim that the term is overused and "played" as a "card" and devalued -- and yet fear it so much that they wind up on eggshells over it? In other words: what real power does an accusation of racism have over a white person -- apart from the power other white people will give it, by abandoning the accused? Do you see where I'm headed with this?
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Up your ass?
― discus (dr g), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― discus (dr g), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link
because i dont think it's pragmatically expedient to do so! "racism" has all sorts of connotations and contexts that people use to distance themselves from it.
this is exactly my argument:
No, my sense is that people are hyper-aware of the possibility of getting accused of racism, and of its consequences, and so they'd like to restrict the word to some clear-cut realm of pure hate, in order to be clear they can never accidentally stumble over into it.
except im arguing that the "clear-cut" meaning of the term has already been (largely) sorted out. if you avoid shouting racism at someone they are more willing to look at those beliefs or actions which are in fact probably racist but dont fall under the "pure hate" portion of that definition.
― ryan (ryan), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
me at halloween
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link
im arguing that the "clear-cut" meaning of the term has already been (largely) sorted out
Sorry, Ryan, but I'm arguing that this is total bullshit. For instance: segregation was racist, yes? But just think how ridiculous and ahistorical is it to imagine that segregation was perpetuated strictly by "clear-cut" hood-wearing card-carrying racists! No, segregation in practice was held in place by any number of everyday, normal people: store owners and lunch-counter operators and employers and bus drivers. In the South, chances are the bulk of these folks liked black people -- they employed them, were friends with them, brought them into their homes. They didn't have a "problem" with them. But when it came down to it, they'd still tell these people to use the back entrance or give up their seats, and when it came down to it, they wouldn't give them jobs beyond sweeping up and ironing the clothes. That is what racism is -- the murderers and cross-burners are just an extreme expression of it. The word "racist" shouldn't refer strictly to cross-burners any more than the words "liberal" or "conservative" should refer strictly to the extreme left and right wings.
Just for instance, look at anti-Semitism in late-30s Germany. If we were to say a German of that era was an anti-Semite, we wouldn't exactly be accusing him of masterminding the death camps, or even standing outside cheering -- all we'd be saying is that this person had swallowed some percentage of the rote, everyday, caricatured anti-Semitism that was all over the time and place. And if that were true, how in the world would "but I disapproved when I found out about Auschwitz" matter? What bearing would that possibly have on the workaday stereotypes or conspiracy theories or other bullshit this person might have casually believed about Jews?
No: Nazis and Klansmen and virulent racists are red herrings in this conversation; they're just the organized extremes, the far-out bizarro expression of attitudes (of everyday racism, or anti-Semitism, or whatever else) that are all around in everything else. Surely this makes sense?
to say that an accusation of racism only has power over a white person because other white people give it power is ridiculous
My question: how so? Being called a racist doesn't do anything more to a person than being called an asshole does -- it's an insult that hurts your feelings, but it doesn't hold any particular power over you except insofar as you and other people believe it. I say white people give it power for a reason: a white principal isn't going to fire or suspend a teacher because someone called the teacher an asshole, but he's a lot more likely to get scared and take action if the accusation is racism. (To be completely fair, a lot of that also has to do with there being whole systems of black organizations that can follow up on an accusation like that -- with bad publicity or boycotts or whatever -- but the same is true of any number of interest groups that people don't feel quite as beholden to!)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 November 2005 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 November 2005 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― discus (dr g), Friday, 4 November 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link
But just think how ridiculous and ahistorical is it to imagine that segregation was perpetuated strictly by "clear-cut" hood-wearing card-carrying racists!
it IS ridiculous but that's probably what most people believe! it certainly wasn't people like THEM who did it, it was crazy racists. just like the nazis were inhuman monsters not at all like you and me, etc.
(i mean we could change out "racist" for "facist" and have this same discussion)
whether the words are appropriate or not i just dont feel they are useful. my position is purely about which rhetoric is most practical.
And at some point you have to start dealing with that the same way you deal with people calling you an asshole -- you think hard about whether you're actually wrong, and if you don't think you are, then you stand by whatever you did and shrug it off.
i mean, people just dont do this! ever! i wish for the sake of clarity and semantics we could talk about this or that being racist but people just freak out when that word comes up. it just shuts down discussions because it's a blanket, objective-seeming, all encompassing term that obliderates any careful distinctions you want to make. (trick-or-treaters and klansmen in the same category!) this is often politically useful, i admit, and often it's not. it comes down to whether you think it's useful at this or that moment to observe difference or cover it over with a generalized term.
― ryan (ryan), Friday, 4 November 2005 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway yeah: I've been called a racist. And yeah, I've had people claim that things I've said or believed were racist, or anti-Semitic, or misogynist, or whatever else. There have been times when the person's had a point, and I've had to go back and rethink whatever I said or did. And there have been times when the accusation's just bullshit ridiculous, in which case -- no matter how much it sucks to know people believe stuff about you that Just Isn't True -- well, what are you gonna do? You explain yourself as well as you can, and from there on it's just a difference of opinion and interpretation.
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link
(The last time I was accused of racism was when this dude who looked like Fabolous was blocking a stairway, and after passing by I made some joke like "what's up with Fabolous back there getting up in everyone's way," and the girl I was with -- who was white, and probably still thinks I'm Indian -- kinda started arguing that there was something racist about that comment. The conversation that followed sucked ass, yes, especially since I'm not used to winding up on the "lighten up, it was a joke" side of an argument. But in the end I know damn well that I made the joke because the dude looked, dressed, and did his hair enough like Fabolous for it to be funny, and I remain convinced that if the girl with me had known more about Fabolous she would have found it funny, too.)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 04:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Friday, 4 November 2005 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link
*ducks*
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 4 November 2005 05:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:54 (eighteen years ago) link
-- _ (...), November 1st, 2005.
― _, Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:57 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Saturday, 5 November 2005 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Saturday, 5 November 2005 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Saturday, 5 November 2005 09:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 5 November 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 5 November 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 5 November 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Saturday, 5 November 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 5 November 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Saturday, 5 November 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― 'Twan (miccio), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
I think a rousing chorus of "DUMBASS" would have sufficed.
― Dan (Fucking Hell) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 5 November 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 6 November 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, 6 November 2005 02:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― KSTFUNS (Ex Leon), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
i'm not sure if that NG cover is really any different to dressing up as Ben Wallace, synthetic skin tone and all, in terms of the outcome. it's useful here for perspective.
re 'Arabing up' - for ages on this thread i wanted to mention Eminem as Bin Laden in the 'Without Me' video, and even Chris Morris as 'Fur Q' in Brass Eye and the differences there, how they escape potential outrage and why, but I couldn't get round to formulating the point fully and it seems kinda moot ultimately.
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
http://cache.halloweenmart.com/images/ip013649.jpg
http://cache.halloweenmart.com/images/ip013650.jpg
http://cache.halloweenmart.com/images/ip008979.jpg
http://cache.halloweenmart.com/images/ip011288.jpg
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.alorabrooks.com/whitechicks.jpg
where this is not:
http://www.clown-ministry.com/images/FrancescoCaroli-cropped.jpg
but these are not too offensive. Is it because of historical context and minority vs. majority?
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
As one example, the third woman down is not covered in red paint.
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.hiphop-blogs.com/hiphop/2005/12/blackface_jesus.html
― $#@!!, Monday, 19 December 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (I Hate Stupid People) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Nonwithstanding the fact that Darth Vader actually wears a mask and is not dark skinned? What kind of crap Darth Vader costumes has this man seen!!!
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (MDK) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
He certainly sounds black.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― $#@!!!, Monday, 19 December 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.seahawks.com/ardisplay.aspx?ID=4494&SecID=29
― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 04:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 05:18 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.tokyobabyloncosplay.com/fotofiere/2004ott/180ghostbusters.jpg
― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 01:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link
anyway, since i am still obsessed with jerry lewis's lost epic, i found this cool site (it might be old to other obsessives) with crazy pictures of jerry in blackface. as if a crazy movie about a clown leading children to the gas chambers wasn't questionable enough, he makes it a blackface clown:
http://www.subcin.com/clowncried.html
(you can download the whole screenplay on that site!)
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― me and deluca (account), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 03:03 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/weho-06/weho351.jpg
― and what, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
favorite posts
1) nude spock (?) comes to save me from dan perry's racism
2) stelfox admits to rockin algierz gear
― and what, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I liked it when stevem was Sociah T Azzahole
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://sarahsilvermanonline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/sarah-silverman-blackface.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
does candicissima still post?
― max, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
A friend suggested that I go as President Camacho from Idiocracy, which would be awesome if I were black. But alas...
― dan m, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
so-wahhhhhh tee massacre suck a dick
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
She goes by Morley Timmons now, but she posts fairly rarely.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh wait, never mind, those are two different people.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Because all black people look the same to me.
Okay, I'm embarrassed.
All people in blackface look the same to me.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
lolololololololololol @ poor jaymc
― HI DERE, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
http://games.multimedia.cx/wp-content/uploads/bhunter-major-malfunction.jpg
― omar little, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaa
― and what, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
no offense to donna whats-her-name but candice >>> her
― and what, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/05/ice.costume/index.html
DHS employee shows up to Dept of Immigration & Customs Enforcement party in prison duds, dreadlocks, and "skin bronzer", gets praised for costume.
Hijinx ensue.
― kingfish, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 06:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i still talk to candice sometimes, she sounds like shes doing alright
― deej, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 07:25 (sixteen years ago) link
wau
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The employee who wore what some said was a racially insensitive Halloween costume to a party hosted by a top immigration official is being directed by the Homeland Security Department Secretary to take administrative leave.
Julie Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, called the man's costume "offensive."
The employee's leave will continue while a Department inquiry is conducted, according to Secretary Michael Chertoff.
The employee wore a striped prison outfit, dreadlocks and darkened skin make-up to the party hosted by Julie Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Myers was on a three-judge panel that originally praised the prisoner costume for "originality.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 November 2007 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2157/im003752nl9.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I bet we won’t see any white kids doing black face Ben Wallace the way the Bulls are playing.
P.S. Trade for Kobe ASAP.
― Mr. Goodman, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Not blackface, but still wtf.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
This is amazing, though -- are they seriously trying to run with it, like it was some clever piece of performance art? I have no idea what rhetorical trick they're trying to accomplish with these quotes, but ... maybe they're intensely brilliant and have figured out that they can just confuse everyone into not caring:
- "This is a group of college students who now think it's trendy to be upset about their friends being killed."
- "The thing is, everybody's making a big stink about Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech was 32 deaths out of the 26,000 that happen in America every day."
- "That's the problem with college students," he continued. "They all live in an ivory tower of privilege. They don't understand, when it all boils down to it, it's someone wearing a costume."
The reversal of blaming the people who are upset for being the spoiled college students -- seriously, this dude should be working for Bush
― nabisco, Saturday, 8 December 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
that sickens me
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Penn State represent
― da croupier, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
college student wears distasteful halloween costume, film at eleven
― da croupier, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, I keep re-reading this:
"This is a group of college students who now think it's trendy to be upset about their friends being killed."
― nabisco, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
They should settle it with a football game.
― da croupier, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
this is what happens after freshman college students take one sociology class..
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
The PSU Daily Collegian article is just a bunch of quotes of PSU students denouncing those who made photos.
― da croupier, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I want names, I want to find out if I recognize any townie last names.
considering how close I came to going as Chris Benoit this past halloween, I can sort of understand how these things happen
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 8 December 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I've got this really great idea for the next time some team hosts Creighton...
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 8 December 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://brotherpeacemaker.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/whos-the-racist2.jpg
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Still trumped by this though:
If someone dressed up as darth vader and painted the darth vader face on their ass, it wouldn't be "assface darth vader," just darth vader
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
bump in anticipation of annual halloween fun
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 04:18 (fifteen years ago) link
today i had to take 20 mins out of my night to explain to my fellow obama volunteer why it would be inappropriate and offensive for her to go to a halloween party as michelle obama in blackface
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 04:19 (fifteen years ago) link
after we ended this conversation her next question was, "well, what about bronzer?"
here's something both outrageous and cheekily 90s. in 1995 i went as OJ for halloween ... w/ blackface ;[
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link
;[
oh man, and i for my prop i taped plastic machete around a football. get it? HUH??
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:05 (fifteen years ago) link
you're so crazy, burt_stanton
― big louie moilolnen (dan m), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:18 (fifteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, November 1, 2005 12:55 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
looking for kwanzaa songs on slsk & aside from georgia anne muldrow's dope "the kwanzaa song" its all SHIRLEY Q LIQUOR
― dat dude delmar (and what), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 02:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"i'm dreamin' of a black kwanzaa" fuck you you cracker ass cracker
I went to grade school with a girl whose father was at the first Kwanzaa with Maulana Karenga. Every year he came and explained Kwanzaa to us at my school. My school was awesome and the seventies kind of ruled, the end.
― J0hn D., Wednesday, 26 November 2008 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/08/article-1218971-06BFBB9D000005DC-573_634x356.jpg
"We've spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons" says Harry Connick Jr
That doesn't sound quite right to me.
― Alba, Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Autumn Almanac reviews Hey Hey because as an insomniac, he can't sleep just yet
― sound of contusion (electricsound), Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
1st post - I don't know who the fuck Ben Wallace is/was, so I would have been extra O_O
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey Hey It's Saturday
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i know :(
― sound of contusion (electricsound), Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
then again, the US had shit with names like Suddenly Susan
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf I am trying to think of names of tv shows and all I can think of is Suddenly Susan
this is like that time I was walking down the cereal aisle in the supermarket and thought THEYYYYYYYRE GREAT no matter what cereal mascot I looked at
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy shit does Harry Chronic ever fucking mean it here!
― existential eggs (Abbott), Thursday, 8 October 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
RT @azizansari Watch Parks & Rec tonight at 830! Bones is doing its special "blackface episode," watch if that's your thing. #ParksandRec
― there's a better way to browse (Dr. Superman), Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
channel hopping last night, saw katy brand on itv2 in blackface doing a rihanna impression. she was shit.
― no bubo, no credibility (stevie), Friday, 9 October 2009 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Best TV show name of all time, no joking: SABADO GIGANTE. I mean, it just lays it all on the line, right there.
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 9 October 2009 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread is about white trick-or-treaters going in blackface to dress like someone Black, right? What does ILX feel about someone dressing up in blackface, tho, to dress up like Al Jolson?
― Mordy, Friday, 9 October 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
mordyfied
― Hamster Huey and the Louis Kablooie (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 9 October 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
what if the white guy dressed up as a black guy dressing up like al jolson dressing up like a black guy?
― amateurist, Friday, 9 October 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I think this Halloween I'm going to do blackface over whiteface over blackface, and when people ask me what the hell I am, I will say "internet irony"
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Friday, 9 October 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
"What's black and white and re(a)d all over?"
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Friday, 9 October 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
What does ILX feel about someone dressing up in blackface, tho, to dress up like Al Jolson?
Its interesting you ask that question because the media everywhere are in a stink about the stupid skit here in aus with the blackface jacksons thing.
And yet we have a jewish performer who's been doing an Al Jolson blackface routine in the samecountry for years to much approval and good audiences and never has he had any protests.
What give? I dont know.
― ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Friday, 9 October 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I rofld
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Al Jolson was jewish.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess the question is, is it ok to do a Jolson routine these days?
Was watching an ABC panel dicsussion show just earlier, and one of the panellist said something like "people are overreacting to this - we should be allowed to laugh at ourselves". Seeminly blind to the fact that a bunch of white and indian australian guys in blackface can hardly be "laughing at themselves" can they.
― ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the answer has been pretty unanimously "no"
― I am not an animal, I'm a human SBing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
But then how do you explain the thousands of Jolson-style performers you see everywhere these days?
― I Am Curious (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 10 October 2009 06:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I say "Jabbawockeez, CIO"
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.truthordarepics.com/sexstoryarchive/covered/images/covered5.jpg
― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Saturday, 31 October 2009 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Um.
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/ThatsRacist.gif
― DavidM, Saturday, 31 October 2009 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i cant see it.
― happy halloweiner aunty tina (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 31 October 2009 11:18 (fourteen years ago) link
You're better off.
― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Saturday, 31 October 2009 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I little bit of innocent mud play never hurt anyone.
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 31 October 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/5394350/the-situation-where-a-dallas-cowboys-cheerleader-appeared-in-blackface-for-halloween-will-probably-not-end-well
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/11/2009/10/500x_custom_1257023169053_dc_cheerleader4.jpg
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/11/2009/10/500x_custom_1257023201903_dc_cheerleader8.jpg
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 1 November 2009 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know, I instantly recognized that as a Li'l Wayne costume and it ergo doesn't seem to be as big of a deal to me.
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Sunday, 1 November 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
But is it really necessary? Pretty sure that would be instantly recognizable as Lil Wayne minus the blackface.
― More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing), Sunday, 1 November 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Did that big guy have to carry the other guy around like that all night?
― henry s, Sunday, 1 November 2009 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw someone blackfaced and had no fucking idea what they were going for, although most of my group's awkward silent seething rage went towards the 'Barry's Backstreet Abortions' doctor with a bloody doll dangling over her shoulder. Cunt.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 1 November 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I guy in blackface came up to me last night and asked for crack and I had to be restrained.
― kate78, Sunday, 1 November 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Restraint is overrated. Should've went ham on the motherfucker.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 1 November 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/11/2009/10/500x_custom_1257023192520_dc_cheerleader7.jpg
This one is the most mind-blowing bcz of the also-facepaint maraichis.
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Sunday, 1 November 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
imo it's kind of awesome that it's a chick going as lil wayne
Not the blackface, don't get me wrong, but the half-assed drag aspect of it. Like she didn't even try to hide her tits but it's still obviously 'hey I'm lil wayne!"
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Sunday, 1 November 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
saw two dudes in blackface as serena and venus, wasn't able to get a decent pic tho : /
― coz (webinar), Sunday, 1 November 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.skitch.com/20091101-1k2yby5ihqsu8c99fn75g2ajjb.jpg
― coz (webinar), Sunday, 1 November 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
― kate78, Sunday, November 1, 2009 9:51 AM (3 hours ago)
harm would have been inflicted if it were i
― k3vin k., Sunday, 1 November 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah, ditto, for some reason
― how rad bandit (gbx), Sunday, 1 November 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
really?
― dowd, Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, if all it takes to make blackface acceptable is for it to be a recognisable person I hope you enjoy the flood of Obama blackface pictures that are doubtless coming over the next few days.
― dowd, Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah um, I'm confused now. Harry Connck Jr caused a SHITSTORM here by declaring the guys doing that skit mentioned above on that shitty TV show was offensive and it really riled people up. The thing was, people defending it said "but they were playing the JACKSONS, how else were they meant to dress?!?". And if some of you are saying now its ok for this person as lil Wayne, well... I'm confused, because that makes what Connick objected to OK on that basis, as well.
(regardless of the fact it was just a lame skit)
― i obtain much semillon (Trayce), Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
NB I should point out I'm not now nor was then defending that or any other blackface skit, simply because I'm well aware of the implications. Unfortunately, a lot of Australians are completely unaware of the history. COmpletely, 100% no idea.
― i obtain much semillon (Trayce), Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
glad to help clear this up for you i obtain much semillon blackface not OK
― conrad, Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Look I agree with you, but apparently Dan and gbx dont, and I gotta tell you that is suprising me.
― i obtain much semillon (Trayce), Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait sorry no, I'm not implying what Dan said = "it is ok" generally, but you get my point.
abbott kinda sums up my feelings better, really.
― how rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 2 November 2009 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
ey white folks- don't go to hallowe'en as black folks. ok?
― antastic mr ox (darraghmac), Monday, 2 November 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Trayce I am so sorry of all people to sonn Australia it was Harry Chronics Jr.
http://asg.homelinux.org/albums/dean/Dean_ah.sized.jpg
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Monday, 2 November 2009 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
To be unambiguous, here is my stance (and I think I also said this upthread in the original discussion):
If you have darkened your skin to look like a realistic portrayal of someone of another ethnicity, I do not have a problem with that.
If you have darkened your skin to look like this:
http://www.subvulture.com/archive/white_xmas_al_jolson.jpg
I have a MASSIVE problem with that. THIS is blackface. THIS is what I find offensive.
I understand why people are super-sensitive about any situation where people's skin is darkened because of the whole history of minstrel shows but I really do believe that equating what the cheerleader did, particularly since SHE LOOKED LIKE LIL WAYNE (with tits, lol) with what Al Jolson did is beyond sketchy, because what does making that equivalency say about how you're viewing Lil Wayne?
I mean, has anyone actually SEEN the pictures of the Michael Jackson group in Australia that Harry Connick Jr objected to? They looked like this:
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/images/hey_hey_blackface_400.jpg
People are taking shit like THAT and equating it with what Tyra Banks did on America's Next Top Model with pasty Irish-looking model Nicole, who normally looks like this:
http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20090812/300.nicole.antm.cycle13.081209.jpg
... but had a photoshoot where she was styled to look like this:
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/10/31/alg_next_top_model.jpg
In what universe is the above picture a direct equivalent to this:
http://www.subvulture.com/archive/white_xmas_al_jolson.jpghttp://www.subvulture.com/archive/white_xmas_al_jolson.jpghttp://www.subvulture.com/archive/white_xmas_al_jolson.jpghttp://www.subvulture.com/archive/white_xmas_al_jolson.jpghttp://www.subvulture.com/archive/white_xmas_al_jolson.jpg
I mean seriously, COME THE FUCK ON.
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
So, in summation:
Looks like a recognizable human being = ok with meLooks like Al Jolson = fuck you for an eternity you fucking racist cumbubble
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
um guys.. somebody wore a KKK outfit in our office costume contest thing on friday!
perhaps it should be noted that the dude is part black but it still managed to be a pretty O_o situation.
― carne asada, Monday, 2 November 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ha of course that's going to be a o_O situation, that is a wholly inappropriate thing to do at work and a super risky move
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like a recognizable human being = ok with me― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 15:16 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
What if its supposed to look like a recognisable human being, but I have no idea who that person looks like (lil wayne) or it looks nothing like that person (ronaldinho bottleopener)?
― tomofthenest, Monday, 2 November 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, it didn't go over too well. he's a goofy guy and it just didn’t even seem like he thought it would be a big deal. xp
― carne asada, Monday, 2 November 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
What if its supposed to look like a recognisable human being, but I have no idea who that person looks like
Does it still look like a human being or does it look like a blackface golliwog? Why is this difficult to understand?
or it looks nothing like that person (ronaldinho bottleopener)
That had its own entirely different set of poor racial connotations that have nothing to do with blackfae, so why are you bringing it up here?
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
lol "blackfae", someone must be done about all of these offensive pictures of elves and fairies in Jolson makeup
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Do not talk to me about offensive pictures of fairies, photos of me have been shopped into some gay-ass fairyland bullshit and are FOR SALE ONLINE. There is no blackface involved, but that's about the only thing missing.
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
links please
― caek, Monday, 2 November 2009 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.camangepasdepain.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/peter_pan_cmpdp.jpg
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
that was an awesome xpost
oh wau
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
so, al jolson is not an acceptable halloween costume then...
― It's-a not so bad (jeff), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
"Tasteless, stupid, unfunny, lamentable and idiotic. Anyone beat up for same deserves it."
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/YouAreKiddingMe.jpg
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Come to think of it, someone needs to get to work animating that, STAT.
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
okay that is awful
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
omg laurel that's amazing
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
They're all really really terrible. And yet somehow for sale? Srsly considering contacting the "artist" about taking them down.
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
omg
That is... omg
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I would embrace it and find out if you can get that shit on velvet ASAP tbh.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Monday, 2 November 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean it's kind of like "CAFEPRESS/ZAZZLE, HERE I COME" isn't it
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm afraid to ask what "Zazzle" is.
Robin Goodfellow and the Gay-Face Realm
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 2 November 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
sheesh
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 2 November 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
if you dont know what lil wayne looks like you proab;ly didt do anything fun on halloween anyway - no harm no foul
― k3vin k., Monday, 2 November 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.zazzle.com/cr/design/pt-shirt?pd=235969346367166600&get_started_dialog=false&side_front=horz&style=infant_tshirt&color=white&size=18mo&context=lindsey&view=front
also screaming lolz at "Wise Women of the Woods"
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
So this Robin Goodfellow obtained some photgraphs of you and used it in his work? He's sort of a Shepard Faerie.
― nickn, Monday, 2 November 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
still lolling btw
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to shepherd him right off a magical cliff. Is that legal? Does appearing in public open you up to having your image used for commercial purposes?
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it depends on whether you signed any waivers on claims to your image as part of appearing at the event and whether this guy was taking pictures in an official capacity for the event at it.
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Def didn't approve anything or sign anything. We got paid for our appearance but there was nothing about photographs, and that guy is making $$ off the pics for himself, not for the organization or the event.
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
So you can force him to take them down and also assert a legal right to a percentage of what he's made so far off of them if I understand copyright law correctly.
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
That'll be 25% of ZERO, then, eh?
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
(actually the public appearance part may negate your ability to extort money out of him; I'm really not sure how that all works out because I'm not a lawyer)
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure how it applies to 'art' lol but i'm pretty sure i can go take your picture anytime i want and sell it to a newspaper and i don't owe you shit
― how rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
like if you are at a public event or something
hey so this was my first Halloween in NYC where I did not see anyone dressed in blackface
I saw like a dozen people dressed as T-Pain but all them turned out to be actually black
I walked behind five guys with giant afros and turned around when I passed them, expecting bad news, but they just had on aviator sunglasses and fake mustaches and were being 70s
hooray for NYC downtown Halloween revelers 09 for not doing blackface in my vicinity and also for significantly lowering the percentage of store-bought costumes from the back room of Ricky's that spend the rest of the year being intended for sex games
(btw I'm generally with Dan about recognizable-person vs. blackface but that Wayne cheerleader did look a lot like the kind of thing where if you were in a room with it it would get bad, especially depending on whether/how she acted out the costume)
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
GROAN @ nickn
― goole, Monday, 2 November 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
depending on whether/how she acted out the costume)
this is the thing, yeah.
― how rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah well that kind of gets into my thing of "Lil Wayne does not behave in a manner that anyone should actually emulate" thing, "60 Minutes" interviews aside
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
actually maybe the main aspect that makes me skeptical is that it would be really easy to be Lil Wayne without doing anything about skin color -- I mean it's Lil Wayne, there are like 50 billion identifying characteristics about the dude's head that supersede "he is black" ... it's not like if you dressed up as a white Lil Wayne people would be all "wait, who are you supposed to be, the guy from Jesus Jones?" that's possibly the bit that makes me wonder.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah I kind of totally disagree with that, actually; you would get as many guesses for "thugged-out Parappa" as you would Lil Wayne if you remove skin color from the equation
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Laurel, this is kinda interesting, although I suspect most of it is bullshit: http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2006/05/4506_you_belong.html
― caek, Monday, 2 November 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Parappa & Jesus Jones...
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
well that's next year's costume sorted: whiteface parappa
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
actually I think the best easy costume I saw this year was a woman of medium skin tone who'd just put on big shorts and painted Mike Tyson's face tattoo around her eye
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 2 November 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I would vote for that costume too because based on your description, she was topless
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
also I GISed Weezy to get a picture of him to contrast with Parappa and found the one of him kissing someone who looks like Cee-Lo on the lips
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was chatting to a bunch of people who are going to a thing I'm djing in a couple of weeks, which is 80s fancy dress. One of them was going as michael jackson (unimaginative, yes) and was planning on wearing blackface 'because it's funnier'. Now, leaving aside the sense that of all people jackson requires no blackface, I told him if he did I wouldn't let him in. It was, of course, pointed out that as a dj I couldn't stop people coming in blackface. But I'll find some way of punishing them.
And I think the point isn't Jolson vs Lil Wayne, but that people feel they can't dress up as a black celebrity without without painting their face. They still insist that the defining characteristic of the person is their blackness, not their talent etc.
― dowd, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
To be fair, to dress up like someone generally involves treating their appearance as their defining characteristic, rather than acquiring the same talents as them.
― caek, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, sure, but hen one aspect of dressing up as them has a history which is less than noble, perhaps it's best just to leave that aspect out.
― dowd, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
totally.
― caek, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
it's sort of a ratio thing, really, like how much your costume involves dressing up like the person and how much it's just "hahaha look I have painted myself like a black person, which is inherently hilarious"
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
basically dan's posts are otm x 1000000
― caek, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
(also the ratio of "I have actually tried to create a subtle, realistic reflection of this person's skin tone" versus "hahaha black shoe polish gettit I'm black")
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
can i just: http://www.zeit.de/2009/43/Wallraff-43
― caek, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
video is amazing, especially the last ten seconds
germany is so weird
― caek, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Although they tend to get what they deserve - burnt cork or black shoe polish hurts like hell, as Groucho Marx costumes have proved for generations.
― dowd, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
xposts
― dowd, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Incidentally Billie Holliday was made to darken her face with burnt cork, for fear that the audience might think she was a white woman singing with a black band. Caused her all kinds off skin problems, spots etc. It's an intersting example of a person who would have been considered black by her society having to use blackface to impersonate their stereotypes of herself.
― dowd, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
German reporters are idiots. Same dude also spent some time made up as "Ali the Turk" for some IMPORTANT SENSITIVE reporting. No mention of "Black like Me", of course.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 07:34 (fourteen years ago) link
of all people jackson requires no blackface
My friend (who is black btw) and her white husband both dressed as MJ this year. She was 70s, Jackson 5-style and her husband was later-model MJ. Last Halloween they dressed as Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama.
― kate78, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, I meant that he has so many cultural signifiers that makeup doesn't come into it. You could probably be recognizably Jackson with a glittery glove.
― dowd, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 04:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.noahsow.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/journal_partykiss.jpg
http://www.noahsow.de/blog/?p=1743
― Moon Unit Zeppo (Oh my, how original), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Trick Or Treat!
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/w_Iowa320x200.jpg
― StanM, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksns8iLRAc1qz70oto1_500.jpg
― heart goin ham (deej), Thursday, 5 November 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Russian Aboriginal Ice Dance Tribute Causes Offence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtXWE1CfbcM
Shoe's on the other foot, Australia!
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 22 January 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Fancy Men's Magazine Jumps On Blackface Trend
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/39/2010/02/500x_officiel_1.jpg
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/39/2010/02/500x_officiel_2.jpg
― El Poopo Loco (Pancakes Hackman), Saturday, 20 February 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2009/07/the_state_louie_mtv.jpg
― poll smoker (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 20 February 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Ummm... was Katie Brand sort of in blackface just now on the Sport Relief dance thingy?
― Diamanti Gallas (aldo), Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't see it but she's always in blackface, so probably.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 20 February 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zocDYlHBqyY
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 20 February 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
also she's always shit
― on in the b.g. while you're grouting (stevie), Saturday, 20 February 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
what the fuck is katy brand?
― poll smoker (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 20 February 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
british TV shows make Mad TV look like a mensa meeting
― poll smoker (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 20 February 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
they're not all that ba oh who am i kidding.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 20 February 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
this shit is like a one-note joke without an actual joke.
― poll smoker (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 20 February 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
mad tv had its moments. (it was no three's company tbf, but still. . .)
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 20 February 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/user/WalnutMeat#p/a/u/0/EctCrzwXvRo
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 08:36 (fourteen years ago) link
One thing I love about fancy dress is the way you can dress up as a zombie, without anyone thinking you support the eating of human brains, but if you dress up as a Nazi or member of the Klan then people will assume you support the actions of said groups.
Not sure about the blackface thing, but I am sure that some people would be offended by it.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Pro tip: Zombies aren't real.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― max, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
also at least zombies don't discriminate when it comes to brains
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
pro-tip- neither is fancy dress
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i started to try to imagine some scenario where there's a stigma attached to dressing up like zombies because of lingering memories of a zombie epidemic a couple generations ago in which millions died and then i was like oh fuck i'm writing a george romero movie aren't i
― Mr. Srehtims (some dude), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha
― Damn these skinny jeans' pockets. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
write it and be damned imo
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link
ok i'm setting up some pitch meetings for Reich of the Dead
― Mr. Srehtims (some dude), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Reparations of the Dead, tense 4 hr b&w examination of the zombiegeist
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Zombie Shoah
― Loathsome Dov (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Now I am offended.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
How come the department store Santas are never black?
― prayer of st francis (u s steel), Friday, 24 December 2010 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Some of my best department stores' santas are black!
― Kerm, Friday, 24 December 2010 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I've seen a Mexican department store Santa but never a black one. The reasoning is usually that the north pole doesn't have black people. Why should a black child sit on an old white man's lap?
― prayer of st francis (u s steel), Friday, 24 December 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
lolling my damn eyes
― Kerm, Friday, 24 December 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
a+++
― max, Friday, 24 December 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
USS not going to the right mall.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 24 December 2010 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
theres a bit in the santaland diaries by david sedaris where he talks about to racist parents that dont wanna get stiffed w/ like a dark looking santa
― plax (ico), Friday, 24 December 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i assume they r horrible ppl
the parents, not the black santas
just wanna, um, be clear on that heh heh
― plax (ico), Friday, 24 December 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
merry xmas everyone
― plax (ico), Friday, 24 December 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
^^good save
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
david sedaris is huge in ireland
― buzza, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I was in india once during christmas and I guess its becoming a bigger thing there every year so there are tons of indian dudes dressed up like santa wearing plastic white faced santa masks on the street
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 09:10 (thirteen years ago) link
its scary as fuck I think I posted about it once on the internet maybe even here
http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-164765-galleryV9-witz.jpg
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I think that's the killer from don't look back
― dayo, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Musical_notes.svg/30px-Musical_notes.svg.png It's the most wonderful time of the year...http://www.angelfire.com/in/sassyshideout/images/SongListAniMusicNotesR.gif
http://8.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/2/3/collegehumor.d581fef2142203531f202353ed619369.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 22 October 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
no she sleighed of her own accord.
― jed_, Sunday, 23 October 2011 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
uncool runnings
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 October 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://colorlines.com/archival_images/Taylor2FINAL1-1.jpg
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/10/in_the_immortal_words_of.html
― vitameatawalloginavegamin (donna rouge), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
those posters are amazing and inspiring
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
I am feeling kinda shaken up today anyway but those posters just made me cry a few 'hope for humanity' tears.
― fried chicken makes Alex cry, who'd vote for such a wimpy guy? (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
thanks abbbottt, this was pretty much what I was talkin about
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
iirc Der Spiegel posted that as their daily photo the same day you posted your comment. So the "danke" goes to them.
― fried chicken makes Alex cry, who'd vote for such a wimpy guy? (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
not having white skin and wearing white masks in general is a scary look that I'm down w/ on halloween, I think it the only fashion that I have rocked on purpose
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
That is an exceptionally creepy picture.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
wonder if I still have that nixon mask
wheeeeee
http://twitter.com/#!/BizNasty2point0/status/130847513937854465/photo/1
― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 October 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
oh no
― done took the whine out of YG garden (symsymsym), Monday, 31 October 2011 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
on the bright side, whoffy whorres and his who?
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Monday, 31 October 2011 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i just assumed he was some random soccer player but no he plays in the NHL
― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 October 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
real talk, if you were at a halloween party and someone showed up in blackface what would you do? stay at the party awkwardly and nervously? say something to the person? say something to the host? just up and leave?
― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 October 2011 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
i would talk to them. what do you do if you find out via facebook pics that someone you've been friends with for years did blackface for halloween.
― witchho (zachlyon), Monday, 31 October 2011 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
what is it w/ some people that wanna go out of their way to offend other races as if its a birthright...
like i love those ads, and yet there's a whole heap of people (and I'm not talking Yahoo Comments, Facebook, I mean peers of mine) goin "AHH MAN THEY TOO SENSITIVE". like yea I know people are stupid but why do some people seem to not be happy unless they've pissed off every group they don't belong to?
― Neanderthal, Monday, 31 October 2011 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
a good portion of people just have no concept of the history of blackface and why it's even offensive in the first place
― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 October 2011 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
the reactions you describe comes less from "hey man, it's 2011! post-racial!" or whatever and more from just straight up, dictionary definition ignorance
― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 October 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
It's the bullying impulse.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 31 October 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
yes that is a good point. i had an argument with a dude the other day who basically wanted to pass every type of historical context I gave as "white guilt". at that point I basically had to withdraw.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 31 October 2011 05:26 (twelve years ago) link
what an awkward conversation to have during sex
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahahahhaahah
― Neanderthal, Monday, 31 October 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
I remember my mom having a very patient conversation with my brother when he was eight about why he couldn't "paint" his face to be Michael Jordan for Halloween.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 31 October 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
"your crossover dribble isn't convincing enough, honey"
― Neanderthal, Monday, 31 October 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I think that was the argument that sold him iirc.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 31 October 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
jon /via/ chi 2.0 is white?!?!
― Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 31 October 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
Our elementary school used to put on this lip-synching contest and one of my friends wanted to do "Shake You Down" as a blackfaced Gregory Abbot.
I'd be willing to testify that he was 100% sincere about it too.
― pplains, Monday, 31 October 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
I had forgotten about assface darth vader
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Back in the fourth grade, one kid in my class came to school dressed as Mr. T. with his face colored with brown *magic marker*. They couldn't wash it off so they just sent him home.
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Monday, 31 October 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
One time a kid in our year came to school dressed as Spiderman. Which basically consisted of a pair of Spiderman pajamas. Except everybody else was dressed normally because there wasn't any kind of Halloween dress up contest or anything.
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Monday, 31 October 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/newsfeed/000/190/785/tumblr_ltfx51lUbi1qi7ne1o1_500.jpg?1319497834
― Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Monday, 31 October 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnr5bV56f1qzv9mho1_400.png
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Monday, 31 October 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
really dislike the parody posters. this campaign is cool, I saw the Native American one the other day and got really emo about it, it seems so from the heart and real and going straight for the lol is shitty imo.
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 31 October 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
that campaign is great!
― horseshoe, Monday, 31 October 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
the meme is incredibly hilarious tho
― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 October 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
let's not forget what's really important here
am with j0hn on that tbh /self-righteous
― horseshoe, Monday, 31 October 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
it's funny tho
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 31 October 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
the robot one is at least, the dog one makes me mad, i don't know why that is
I like the campaign and am kinda uncomfortable with the popularity of the parodies, but the lobster holding a picture of dog in a lil lobster costume made me lose my shit
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Monday, 31 October 2011 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
parodies just seem like an i am uncomfortable with thinking about race for 15 seconds defusing response. stating the obvious but i have less and less patience for that as i get older and crankier.
― horseshoe, Monday, 31 October 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
guy complaining about the poster campaign is p unwatchable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v04IdNPuMlc
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 31 October 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
vloggy glen beck
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
haha imagine all the tiresome ranting i am sparing you guys by not watching that
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
*personal growth*
looks like it could be an lcd soundsystem screengrab, gonna be so disappointed when i click playxxxp
― Local Christian Blues (schlump), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
if you say so - they strike me as v. much what horseshoe says - "saw the deal, decided to be TOTALLY HILARIOUS! instead of thinking for half a second about something actually worth thinking about" i.e. just depressing evidence that at least as many people suck ass as have cool inspiring ideas
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Monday, October 31, 2011 7:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah I felt this way too but the dog/lobster one is cool because there are no people involved
― dayo, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
same length as 'all my friends' xps
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
Most annoying person ever - y/n?
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
i started to read the comments on that article donna rouge linked, all "what about how everyone dresses up as cowboys? WHAT ABOUT THE WHITES????" and then i just stopped myself.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://thtsrcst.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/lebron_indians.jpg?w=470&h=400
A co-worker wore this the day of the Announcement. As I walked by him, I said "Nice racist shirt!" (mock jovial), got into a verbal altercation (I made his legitimately lousy day worse), and then got nasty looks and cold shoulders from other co-workers the rest of the week. That was fun.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
bless you imo
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
my friend wanted to be katy perry and I was like, you can't, you're not white
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
that shirt is horrible!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
The Dalek poster I quite like, but I actually saw it several days ago, before I even knew it was a take-off of something. I do like the original posters!
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
that shirt is.... weird
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
There needs to be a "We're a culture, not a sports mascot" campaign. Can't fucking believe some of that racist shit is still around -- and that dipshits get bent out of shape when called on it. And the mascots aren't even the worst of (cf. the "tomahawk chop" at Braves games).
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
also "the Washington Redskins"
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
there are no worse human beings than white people who act like being white these days = akin to slavery.
like...there are plenty of race-neutral costumes, yo! is it really imperative to your Halloween experience that you dress like Huggy Bear?
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
the Cleveland Browns
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
okay lol
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost don't get me started on the Indian nicknames thing. sports fans are ironically the ones who are hypersensitive about that shit -- and they'll always cite things like "a recent poll says 51% of Indians don't even give a shit!" or "THEY SHOULD FEEL HONORED".
and in the end it isn't even about taste, it's about $$$$. for instance, if you are Western Bolivia Kentucky Charleston State in a Division 8 school and you have an Indian nickname, the NCAA gets on your ass about it, and you change it, cuz you don't have the means to fight it.
meanwhile, when FSU is asked to change theirs a few years ago, because of how big the program is, JEB BUSH gets involved to reverse the order.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
i think most things involving dogs in costumes are kind of OK.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
the parody posters are funny if you don't know they're parodies of something
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
any d00d who says the "Indians should be proud" of how they're depicted in the sports world should be forced to own a team called the Washington Paisans, with the mascot being a buncha Joey Buttafuoco looking motherfucker running around the field in a wife beaterss.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
there's actually no way to turn that one around
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
buncha beaterss
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
My high school AND college had "Indian honoring" nicknames that were changed. There are "Once a _____, always a _____" Facebook groups for both. You can purchase shirts -- stand up to the gross injustice.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
― Neanderthal, Monday, October 31, 2011 7:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
godfather's pizza anyone?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
"Song of the South is a classic, it ain't racist ah tell ya"
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
can someone explain the lebron one to me, idgi
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
It's a double caricature.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
The Indians logo
+
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiryYNuIKiJYbLoh8fupEUKj55NAEVZvi9uCm5Cp1j4c76AEmGfQ
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
i don't follow sports at all, so my mind is blown that that shirt immediately registers as "lebron" to people
― Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
Me too. I took it as being the regular Cleveland Indians mascot; now I see the Cavs headband and the earring. Here's the actual logo for comparison:http://www.hanksville.org/sand/stereotypes/images/chiefwahoo.gifAnd what the fuck, his name is "Chief Wahoo."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
I had a pretty fascinating conversation with an indian guy that I know (who's an ex-marine and cultural studies phd student) about how he's a big Redskins fan. He picked them as his NFL team while growing up even though he lived in the PNW because the logo was the only thing he saw in the media that looked like people he knew. I expected he'd go off about them but his view on was much funnier and complicated than I imagined it would be.
He did say that when he's gone to see them play once or twice he tucked in his braids because he didn't want to give any ammo to the racists who could point to him as supporting their cause.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
pardon my ignorance but are geisha costumes offensive?
― hotter than a hoochie coochie (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://threadbombing.com/data/media/2/popcorn.gif
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 06:21 (twelve years ago) link
Verb!
― buzza, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 06:25 (twelve years ago) link
pertinent article
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/10/racist-redskins/
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Give us Clevelanders some credit, the logo used to look like this:
http://cf.juggle-images.com/fill-crop-mid/white/200x150/wg-cleveland-indians-4.jpg
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
The team and its fans still often point to a 2004 survey by the Annenberg Center, which found that by a margin of nine to one, American Indians took no offense at the name Redskins.2 They have bigger problems to worry about. I admit to a mild curiosity about whether they’d feel differently if they knew the name was dreamed up by the sport’s most overtly racist figure, who even in his will (he died in 1969) stipulated that the Redskins Foundation that was to be created with most of his estate not direct a single dollar toward “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.”
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
I admit to a mild curiosity about whether they’d feel differently if they knew the name was dreamed up by the sport’s most overtly racist figure, who even in his will (he died in 1969) stipulated that the Redskins Foundation that was to be created with most of his estate not direct a single dollar toward “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.”
That is one hell of a sentence.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
It doesn't scan perfectly, but I've started to read this thread title to the tune of "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress".
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.halloweencostumes.com/blog/post/2011/09/20/how-to-make-a-lil-wayne-costume-or-how-to-have-swagger.aspx
― your way better (Eazy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. ANDRE AGASSI????
http://deadspin.com/5855305/andre-agassi-is-mr-t
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
hoo boy
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, points for actually making an effort re: the rest of the costume but the skin tone is a massive "DON'T DO THAT"
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
feel like there should be some blackface pool 2012 or something, this shit is getting absurd
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
andre agassi is mr t. at a church potluck
― goole, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
Walk Off HBPTue 01 Nov 2011 3:25 PMStanding ovation to Michael Chang's costume as 80's elementary school dork.
Standing ovation to Michael Chang's costume as 80's elementary school dork.
shamefully, I lolled
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5859449/
The [University of Southern Mississippi] Dean of Students Office said the six women, all members of Phi Mu sorority, dressed in blackface to depict themselves as the Huxtable family from 'The Cosby Show,' as part of their participation in a 1980s-themed, off-campus costume party on Wednesday.
― shiroibasketshoes & tuxedos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 14 November 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
retromania
― Creedance House Mafia (D-40), Monday, 14 November 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
irl lols
― shiroibasketshoes & tuxedos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
Fashion's Elite Got Good and Blackfaced at a Party in Milan Last Night
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/194j17ahxwfyejpg/ku-xlarge.jpg
The first sentence says nearly everything you need to know for context: Milan's annual Halloweek masquerade party took place last night, and the theme was Disco Africa.
― Dave Froglets (Phil D.), Monday, 28 October 2013 12:20 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/george-zimmerman-trayvon-martin-costumes-backfire-article-1.1498693
yeah, don't do that.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 28 October 2013 12:36 (ten years ago) link
Christ almighty.
I came to post about this starlet I've never heard of wearing blackface for Halloween as "Crazy Eyes" from OITNB (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/10/julianne-hough-apologizes-for-donning-blackface/) but that Trayvon Marin costume is so reprehensible and the dude is so unrepentant.
Do these people not have a single not racist (or even slightly less racist) friend? Somebody who might say, "Hey, you know what, that is racist as hell. Don't do that"? Fellow white people, I beg you, if you have a friend who wants to dress up like this, stop them.
― carl agatha, Monday, 28 October 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tracyclayton/14-times-people-dressed-as-people-of-other-races-for-hallowe
― how's life, Monday, 28 October 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
http://sfist.com/2013/10/28/fake_asiana_airlines_pilots_become.php
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
My friend's daughter wants to dress up as the TV character Luther for Halloween. He explained that this is not allowed and she is bummed.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
As someone who would (instinctively) not dress up in blackface, I really want to know what goes through the minds of people who do.
― cardamon, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
― polyphonic, Tuesday, October 29, 2013 5:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
i feel that as long as there's no facepaint, fake wigs etc. involved, should be okay. yeah?
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/10/02/arts/02LUTHER1/02Luther1-articleLarge.jpg
not impossible to do without blackface, he's wearing practically the same outfit in every image on google, and honestly even with blackface it's not like it'd be any more obvious, she'd still have to explain to everyone who she is
don't think anyone really has a problem with dressing up as a character of a different race as long as that race isn't part of the costume, every character wears costumes
xp!
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
If a white teenaged girl was wearing those clothes would you say "nice Luther costume"?
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
if she was wearing those clothes in blackface i'd still have to be told what it is (and i've watched luther)
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:48 (ten years ago) link
what the fuck is Luther
― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:50 (ten years ago) link
Luther is a British psychological crime drama television series starring Idris Elba as the title character Detective Chief Inspector John Luther.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
With some of the most beautiful pictures of London this century
― cardamon, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
It's a sunshiny cliché for people to say "I don't see color," but for white people that do this, it's true -- that they don't see the color of other white people. But skin that's darker or eye folds that are different leap out to some people.
You notice the blind person with the fogged-up eyes, but you walk past hundreds of people a day with sight and don't think much of it. I'm sure there are some white people who have gotten the flour makeup out to do Johnny or Edgar Winter because their skin is noticeably different.
This does not excuse or pardon or give a pass to any person over the age of six to don a costume mimicking another race. And the kid under six doesn't get a pass because they better have an adult telling them no. But I am trying to explain, to get in the head, of someone not usually showing off racist characteristics thinking this is an approachable idea.
When I was in 5th grade, they used to put on this talent show based on the lip-synch show "Puttin' on the Hits". A buddy of mine and I were riding home on the school bus when he tells me he's thinking about lip-synching "Shake You Down" by Gregory Abbot. We talk about how it's a pretty smooth song, how he'll need to match the clothes in the video and also is he going to wear black makeup? Eventually, he got a little stage fright before even submitting his name to the talent director, so nothing ever became of it.
I don't think we were nasty racists, but definitely we were ignorant and insensitive to a few things. To us, black (or brown, or heck - in Gregory Abbot's case - very light brown) skin was as much of a distinctive feature as the mole on Aaron Neville's forehead. But I would tell that 10-year-old pplains (or even better, my IRL kids) that there's a lot of horrible history associated with dressing up and parodying people who don't look like us. And besides, going out of our way to hammer home that a celebrity or other person looks different is one of the many things that keeps that line drawn between some of us.
I don't know if I've explained this very well and I sure do feel weird posting it, but why would someone dress up in blackface? I guess at one time a long time ago, I thought I knew why.
And this is more for people like that actress who dressed up like the black character from the prison show. Anyone who dress up like Trayvon should also have a gun pointed at them.
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 00:09 (ten years ago) link
And I don't care how much shoe polish you've got, you're never going to pass for Stringer Bell.
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 00:12 (ten years ago) link
How would a white person dress up as that dude on the left in that picture? All his clothes look the same.
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 00:14 (ten years ago) link
Did I tell this story? I don't think I did here.
My third grade class wasn't 100% white but it was close and thus I (I'm white btw) played Harriet Tubman in a play. I asked the teacher if I should wear brown makeup because I was 8 and my class was nearly all white and I had no idea about the history of blackface. I am not even confident that my parents would have known better. In my memory the teacher was initially going to go with it but thank fuck either she had some insight or somebody stepped in (either happening being against the odds as this was ~ 80/81 in a very rural and very white area) because it didn't happen. I mean, I still played Harriet Tubman in a play but not in black face.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 01:43 (ten years ago) link
I also still remember my opening lines: "My name is Harriet Tubman, or 'Moses' to those I helped. As a child, I was whipped and beaten by my slave master."
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
in fourth grade i played a rapping vince lombardi
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 02:01 (ten years ago) link
that felt relevant
Talking about blackface here, not gasface.
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 02:09 (ten years ago) link
Well, I can't tell how light or dark this fella is IRL, but that's not really the point for this one, is it?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0agBgmCMAA8nS9.png
― pplains, Monday, 20 October 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UvYoV6f.png
http://i.minus.com/isq3OGBdCJWVI.gif
― pplains, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
why are they the only ones in costume
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 02:58 (nine years ago) link
That was probably my third or fourth question.
― pplains, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten)Posted: October 29, 2013 at 6:50:07 PM"what the fuck is Luther"
Is this your "I've never heard the Beatles knowingly" moment here or
― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
https://38.media.tumblr.com/52ce7827d1827e2d7dac395757dee69d/tumblr_ne668bD5ki1qhw292o1_500.jpg
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 04:46 (nine years ago) link
My son's best friend is going as "a jamaican". Not in blackface, but with a dreadlock wig. No idea what the fuck to even say when I run into him tonight.
― how's life, Friday, 31 October 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
You do get white Jamaicans
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
Repeatedly refer to it as an Adam Duritz costume
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Friday, 31 October 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
^^irl lol
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 31 October 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
You know, I've been stewing about this for the last 20 minutes or so, grumpily texting about it with my wife, who's really bummed out. But now I'm thinking maybe if I stick close to this kid tonight I can score some herb.
― how's life, Friday, 31 October 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Rofl DJP
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 31 October 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
Ras Treat
― example (crüt), Friday, 31 October 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
not ALL gabi's @scabbygabi
Good save
http://i.imgur.com/2kAOsEJ.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 29 March 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link
Nice save, body paint company!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 March 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
"Due to U.S. Copyright issues, we are unable to show you the blue paint."
― pplains, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
"I don't care if you paint yourself black, yellow, red, or green . . ."
― nickn, Sunday, 29 March 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
No purple??
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 30 March 2015 03:34 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EG0JZOJ.jpg
http://www.fox10tv.com/story/30349647/decatur-teacher-apologizes-for-wearing-black-face
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 02:35 (eight years ago) link
Honestly, I'm just about as offended that she thinks she's pulling off Kim Kardashian.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 03:38 (eight years ago) link
Took me a second. They're dressed as hieroglyphics, not the Egyptians themselves...
http://i.imgur.com/s1OtdMZ.jpg
... but boy are they walking the line there.
― pplains, Friday, 5 February 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
From
http://i.imgur.com/8MkW5Ut.jpg
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to
http://i.imgur.com/89QkeKs.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 3 April 2016 01:15 (eight years ago) link
i've been watching all in the family episode by episode from season 5 forward and hoo boy, some of the places this show goes are pure wtf and a good heads up as to how the culture has shifted over the past forty years... the key joke in the "Gloria has a baby" two parter is that Archie leaves his lodge's minstrel show in blackface to get to the hospital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMlpCLPCtx4
― ulysses, Monday, 4 April 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
NB the series of rape jokes at 5.40
― ulysses, Monday, 4 April 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
Usually days like today are prime for mining horrible examples of white trick-or-treaters in blackface. However, it's just gotten worse and more depressing in the past year.
I know, "When was it not depressing?" I guess you'd hope things would improve with each passing year, not break records for how low the bar keeps getting dropped.
Recently read a good thread on social media from an ILXor, listing some of the worst recent incidents. And it's not just the tastelessness that hits you, it's how brazen and open these assholes are about pulling it off these days. It's almost as if they feel emboldened to do so.
That said, I enjoyed these fellas. Hope the guy on the right didn't get confused with being a white guy wearing a dreadlock wig though I personally would've appreciated the meta on that one.
https://i.imgur.com/BmjljUp.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
djp has a roundup of this year's examples on fb
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
^ Yeah. That ILXor.
― pplains, Saturday, 4 November 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
That picture created so much reverse racism whining.
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Saturday, 4 November 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
reverse racism whining
thereby confirming the whiner's steadfast and unshakeable belief that whites in blackface are racists. amirite?
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 4 November 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
lol at khakis
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 5 November 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
American politicians go blackface.
But not Canadians: https://time.com/5680759/justin-trudeau-brownface-photo/
― pplains, Thursday, 19 September 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
What the fuck is wrong with all these people?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 September 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
Milkshake Trudeau is Racist.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 September 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
I can’t believe he did it so many times! And he was 29!! Shameful.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/blackface-tv-episodes-scenes-removed-streaming.html
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
NBC was a big fan of blackface gags
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
They were also the network that played The Apprentice. Something not right been up with them for awhile.
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
Countdown to the discovery of long-missing The Apprentice: Blackface Challenge tapes...
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
Whole network is rotten from the Today show hosts to the late night wars. Who woulda thunk a broadcasting company owned by G.E. would be so awful.
Oh, they're owned by Comcast now. yes, yes, such an improvement.
Anyway. Halloween this year is going to be horrible. I am looking forward to the McCloskey costumes though.
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
Er, I've just seen the Bananarama video for "I Want You Back" (with the woman who replaced Siobhan Fahey who no-one remembers)...
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 16 April 2023 09:32 (one year ago) link
Beginning of Culture Club's Do You Really Want To Hurt Me video is another one.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 16 April 2023 09:40 (one year ago) link
with the woman who replaced Siobhan Fahey who no-one remembers
some of us will always remember the Shillelagh Sisters
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 16 April 2023 09:58 (one year ago) link