It's almost like a hip-hop song isn't sufficient enough grounds to talk about something, but it is when the predominately white NPR gives it some shine, hmmmmm
― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
lol I thought about "Chain Hang Low" too
social justice clickbait didn't really exist in 2006 the way it does in 2014 tho
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
cf justin bieber having more twitter followers than kurt cobain ever did
― balls, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
is theodore r johnson 'predominantly' really white whiney? how many eighths are we talking?
― balls, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
That song title
o_O
― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, May 13, 2014 4:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think it's a little beyond o_O
I listened to it yesterday and feel kind of terrible that it's been stuck in my head off and on today
― joygoat, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 5:01 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's why i called out the source, not the author
― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
And not even the source because, NPR is totally great for running it!
I'm mainly confused why everyone is picking up on it and reblogging it when there was a legitimate cultural artifact that people were making the exact same points about eight years ago
― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
8 years ago is a longtime on the internet whieny
― marcos, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
because no one was that emotionally invested in it then and people have a pop culture memory of less than eight years?
probably the people invested in it then and npr listeners aren't that overlapping, either
― a strange man (mh), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
it's almost like hip-hop hasn't really been relevant in the larger culture for nearly a decade now
― balls, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
or that the means thru which ppl share stuff on the internet are different than they were eight years ago
― balls, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
I mean, Gawker existed in 2006, where was their reblog of this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/arts/music/17play.html
― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS OUT OF ORDER
― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
iirc they were busy posting updates of which celebrities people had seen on the streets of nyc that day
― a strange man (mh), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
it's almost like that times article deals w/ the issue as an aside in a brief blurb while the npr thing uses it to demonstrate how if you scratch beneath the surface of even the most anodyne thing in america you will find virulent racism lurking in its history
― balls, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
where was whiney when spin magazine was posting aids denialist literature
c'mon man you can't tell me you didn't know about that
― a strange man (mh), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
hey how come ppl are linking to that thing from 2006 when lil' mont used it in 1997. seems kinda suspect someone would link to the predominantly white ny times and ignore an icon most americans are aware of like lil' mont.
― balls, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
I should really remove my bookmark from this thread and yet
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
your time might be better spent sleeping
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
DJP, if you remove your bookmark from this thread, how are you going to know if something's racist or not?
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 23:16 (ten years ago) link
Whiney on a "Why wasn't anybody calling for Donald Sterling's ouster 15 years ago?" tip
― 龜, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.multivu.com/mnr/64790-post-foods-fruity-cocoa-pebbles-competition-wwe-john-cena-nba-kyrie-irving
― Mordy, Monday, 19 May 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
"team fruity"
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 May 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
I have been cracking up at those ads since I first encountered them
― hella good Jewish homies (DJP), Monday, 19 May 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
huge fan of breakfast cereal endorsements from athletes (esp of kyrie irving's prominence so to speak) wherein they're wearing ultrageneric jerseys/hats/etc., takes me back to my youth.
http://keymancollectibles.com/baseballcards/images/1990po4.jpg
― balls, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 01:53 (ten years ago) link
hahaha that card would be even better if it was likeNOLAN RYANdallas-based baseball squadron ballthrower
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
he looks like he's modeling for sears
― balls, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
omg I remember those cards!
― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www2.cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/files/2012/07/Pete-Rose-Gold-Star1.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link
Haha these dont even have the mascot. Bet the pantone is only off a digit.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aZia0MTLSJw/UDxdtE8xS_I/AAAAAAAAKx4/A5zY1QVVSDk/s1600/2012+Panini+Triple+Play+Clayton+Kershaw+sticker.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 03:36 (ten years ago) link
all-white hardcore band the big boys:http://glorifytheturd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bigboysfront.jpg
― marcos, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, between them, The Black Athletes, and the Drunk Injuns, Skate Rock Vol. 1 doesn't look so innocent anymore.
― how's life, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
That looks like something that was put out by Taang! Records.
― pplains, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mh2RctlGxc
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
what does she say in that line about the bodegas and lips? i can't make it out exactly but i'd be surprised if it wasn't offensive
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
yuck
― Another great spree fucking. Shoot. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
i hate everything about this song
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
Esso like debuted at no. 38 on Billboard. Which, I know it takes like very few copies to do, but that doesn't happen to, like, Thee Oh Sees or Grimes or w/e
Where are people even hearing this garbage?
― Another great spree fucking. Shoot. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
idk, i'd imagine there's a big promotional push by some third party with major label affiliations but i don't know whom.
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Stereogum premiered their video: 1 comment, 37 tweets
― Another great spree fucking. Shoot. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
being in one of these bands doesn't seem like fun at all
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dh5lZmvXybg/Tc1uevkeFYI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Q7S7JNdFPP8/s640/Lawn+Jockey.gif
I see white lawn jockey ornaments and think, yeah, I guess it's an improvement over the black lawn jockey ornaments, but it still rubs me the wrong way. What's the idea or concept being conveyed? "Remember back in olden days when you'd have men in uniform stand around holding the horses? They were usually blacks forced into servitude, but here's an effigy offered in white."
Maybe I'm off. Maybe it goes back to Scottish times when white people held their horses. Maybe not though.
― pplains, Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
I think they mostly exist so that old white people can say "Remember when those things used to be black? Can't get away with that anymore ho ho"
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
I have an honest ITR: a friend of mine believes that any celebration involving the breaking of a piñata is inherently racist, unless it is a celebration entirely by and for Mexican people. This had never occurred to me before, but I'd be perfectly happy to accept that it is correct. Do you agree with my friend or not?
My huge almost-entirely-white extended family has included a piñata at our family reunion / Christmas celebration every year for decades in a manner that had previously seemed to me to be free of its historical cultural context (the piñata is not a traditional or stereotypical shape or color, there is no obvious element of "Mexican blackface" surrounding the breaking of it: no costumes, no broken spanish is spoken, etc).
― Dan I., Friday, 6 June 2014 03:00 (ten years ago) link
What prompted this specifically was this event , which I'd thought it might be fun to go to, before my friend objected.
― Dan I., Friday, 6 June 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
oh god i'm a racist aren't i
― Dan I., Friday, 6 June 2014 03:18 (ten years ago) link
wikipedia lol suggests that the pinata has roots in chinese, european and mesoamerican tradition, & that the word itself is of italian origin. similar traditions exist all over the world. never heard anyone suggest that the pinata is the reserved and sacred cultural property of mexicans, but i suppose i wouldn't know.
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 03:44 (ten years ago) link
Ha, no fucking way is this racist. If it is, I'll be sure to tell the Hispanic owner of the party store we get our annual birthday piñatas from, that sorry, his products are racist when purchased by people who look like my family.
― pplains, Friday, 6 June 2014 04:16 (ten years ago) link
there is plenty of racist bullshit that happens when white people throw cinco de mayo parties but a pinata used by white people is not inherently racist imo. if they wear sombreros and fake mustaches while swatting at the pinata, it's a different story though
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 13:22 (ten years ago) link
thinking a pinata at a party is inherently racist is kind of getting us to a point where cultural exchange should be shut down entirely
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:38 (ten years ago) link