ttytt we favour sangidge ourselves
― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 25 October 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
Brown hand shaking white hand to illustrate low crime rate (not sure if link will work). Pasadena's tech website (Innovate Pasadena).
http://i1.wp.com/www.innovatepasadena.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IP_City-of-Innovation.png?resize=940%2C2737
― nickn, Saturday, 25 October 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
Open in new tab and click for full size.
― nickn, Saturday, 25 October 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
wrapper turnt sanga
― k3vin k., Saturday, 25 October 2014 02:10 (nine years ago) link
^ made this same pun in my head
― 龜, Saturday, 25 October 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
so, annie lennox, huh. like...you can tell the media that beyoncé is not a real feminist, OR you can cover "strange fruit" on your new album, but doing both in quick succession seems like a terrible idea.
― you little affront to god (reddening), Saturday, 25 October 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
whoa wtf
― ⌘-B (mh), Saturday, 25 October 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
I just found this in a box of pictures and letters. From Pendelton, Oregon, c. 1979.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5608/15004800363_9602bbf012_c.jpg
― Je55e, Saturday, 25 October 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
I've never been to Pendleton but I live sort of near it, and I swear I've heard stories about it having a big kkk presence that went on much longer than you might have expected.
― joygoat, Saturday, 25 October 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
Weird. We lived near Pilot Rock. Do you know it?
― Je55e, Saturday, 25 October 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
I used to eat at sambos when I was a kid. Very scared of the dude in the tiger costume, according to my mom. I guess they all got turned into Denny's and coco's. From wikipedia:
Sambo's is a restaurant, formerly an American restaurant chain, started in 1957 by Sam Battistone, Sr. and Newell Bohnett. Though the name was taken from portions of the names of its founders, the chain soon found itself associated with The Story of Little Black Sambo. Battistone, Sr. and Bohnett capitalized on the coincidence by decorating the walls of the restaurants with scenes from the book, including a dark-skinned boy, tigers, and a pale, magical unicycle-riding man called "The Treefriend".
― the late great, Saturday, 25 October 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
apparently the original sambo's (in Santa Barbara) is still open
― the late great, Saturday, 25 October 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
oh whoops I didn't see the daily beast article
― the late great, Saturday, 25 October 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
That's funny, I remember the controversy. We grew up in such a liberal, PC area that it was waaay bad to eat at Sambo's. I had to eat there once and was mortified, afraid my super liberal church would get wind of it, my civil rights cred tarnished. It was like a Denny's. then Denny's got reamed for discrimination. With the Aunt Jemima suit and all, maybe pancakes are hopelessly racist.
― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11174663/Paris-Opera-cast-refuse-to-perform-for-veiled-woman.html
Seriously, I'd be happier in a world were niqabs were a thing of the past but I would be also quite happy if an opera choir didn't mind my clothing enough to refuse to perform and make a huge deal out of it. This reeks of typical french islamophobia, subtly veiled under woman rights issues and it makes me sick.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 25 October 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
i remember eating at sambos! Been a helluva long time.
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 October 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
There used to be a Sambo's over where the Walgreen's is now. They tried to pass off Sambo as being some sort of Indian boy, but we knew.
The high school Denny's was never the same once they replaced the cigarette vending machine with one of those stuffed animal crane games.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, January 13, 2006 11:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pplains, Sunday, 26 October 2014 03:51 (nine years ago) link
I remember drinking the most refreshing glass of water in that Sambo's. Maybe I was a kid and had never bothered to drink water in a restaurant before.
― pplains, Sunday, 26 October 2014 03:52 (nine years ago) link
I came across a cache of old Sambo's
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Sunday, 26 October 2014 07:15 (nine years ago) link
my mom worked at a Sambo's when I was little (prob. 1978-1979). They had classic country on the jukebox and one of the waitresses gave me a stuffed rabbit for christmas.
― sarahell, Sunday, 26 October 2014 09:16 (nine years ago) link
I mean this is like... not v good, right? If not deliberate then at least pretty unfortunate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8x81Rpl_FA
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 31 October 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-stein-obama-racist
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 3 November 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
Wow that dude has aged badly
― 龜, Monday, 3 November 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
he's about 70. his ideas sure haven't aged well.
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Monday, 3 November 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
"ideas"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 November 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
ideology and trivia
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Monday, 3 November 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
Has there been discussion of that Lena Dunham/Lil Jon vote spot that ran recently? IDK if it's overtly racist, but something subtly rubbed me the wrong way about it, with the 'voters' being mostly white or at least college-y looking. Maybe it's just a spot narrowly targeted to that demographic and I'm reading too much into it, but it felt a little too much like Lil Jon was a prop.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
tbf when is Lil Jon not a prop
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
I think also it being lena dunham using him as a prop especially irked me
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
so fucking pissed off right now
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S3612199.shtml?cat=1
― There Goes Ryan's Scion (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 November 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2014/11/gang-sign-story-backfires-on-kstp/
― There Goes Ryan's Scion (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 November 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
Gang sign vs. The lindy england
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 November 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
this station specializes in this shit....called up their news hotline to complain, they are so concerned about "welfare fraud" it has it's own goddamn menu option
https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/kstp
― There Goes Ryan's Scion (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 November 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBLBxb29maw
Anti-Black Pete activists go to London dressed as Black Pete to record the response of people confronted with blackface. It will make fuck all the difference in the Netherlands probably but I applaud the responses. Oh, and they bump into Russell Brand by accident.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
New niece for me! So looking at baby clothes (and of course you should always dress babes up as animals) and I noticed this url. Why is 'hiphip' a tag here?
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Infant-Halloween-Costumes-Baby-Romper-Jumpsuit-Animal-Cosplay-Onesie-Suit-Hiphop-Monkey-Guenon-Animal-Style0-3/2031844800.html
― Spaceport Leuchars (dowd), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
For the same reason I told everyone not to get my kids monkey stuff
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
I would back slowly away from that website. There may some cultural confusion with some of the Chinese retailers creating their own English translations, but
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/High-quality-cool-black-Monkey-boy-Mascot-Costume-Character-Halloween-Costumes-Fancy-Dress-Suit-Free-Shipping/32222574868.html
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
Holy.
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Thursday, 13 November 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, November 12, 2014 11:50 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
... wat
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 14 November 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
anti-racists dress up as racists to prove ...
That it's racist. Point is, people in Netherlands don't consider it racist. They are not alone. In Denmark, we had a theater company doing an 'anti-racist' project where people would be put in blackface to learn about how it feels to be black. As one angry Swedish black man put in when they tried to take it to Sweden: 'If people want to know what being black feels like THEN ASK ME!!!'
There are still many Danes who thought it was an ok anti-racist project, even though it objectively pissed off a lot of black people.
― Frederik B, Friday, 14 November 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
the didactic plebs who made the video chose well by going to a country where disfavour for explicit cartoon racism is perfectly compatible with structural racism possibly more acute than in the netherlands itself
― disconnected externalized and unrecognizable signifying structure (nakhchivan), Friday, 14 November 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
people would be put in blackface to learn about how it feels to be black
this is just so abysmally clueless that it is hard to comprehend. but then, it was done by theater people, so...
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Friday, 14 November 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
the netherlands had a black national football team manager sixteen years ago whereas today a dutch manager being appointed by an english football team singlehandedly raised the proportion of black professional football managers in england to a healthy 3%
― disconnected externalized and unrecognizable signifying structure (nakhchivan), Friday, 14 November 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
http://black-face.com/blackface-world.htm
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 November 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
an 'anti-racist' project where people would be put in blackface to learn about how it feels to be black.
This is hilarious.
― pplains, Friday, 14 November 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
"I was greeted with scorn and ugly looks wherever I went. Power to the People."
― pplains, Friday, 14 November 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link
― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Saturday, October 25, 2014 5:57 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m26bhdAEZf1qc5s5co1_250.gif
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 14 November 2014 01:36 (nine years ago) link
sry to interrupt i haven't read this thread in a month and that post was too much
if it was a quote-unquote politically correct area there would be no "Sambo's" it is true
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Friday, 14 November 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link