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