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MLK party on Texas campus causes uproar
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Mashing said:
You know, I only passed that town once on my way to New Orleans and, I swear, there was this big handwritten wooden sign off the side of the freeway that read "Rape while dying legal". I had to ask my friend if I was seeing and reading that right. I still don't quite know what the hell it meant, but I sure wasn't stopping for gas, that's for sure.
As for the story, welcome to Texas. Leave the major cities and that's what you get sadly.
mckmas8808
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DarienA said:
I agree. It pisses me off that soooo many people in hip-hop hate Oprah right now. I ask myself why?
Mercury Fred
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When you start rationalizing a bunch of white kids dressing up as caricatures of black people on Martin Luther King day, a straw man is actually better than you deserve.BigGreenMat said:
adamsappel
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You are! Wendy's fried chicken is good, really. (Or is the question that you didn't know they served fried chicken?) I've heard Popeye's is good, but people--black people--have told me that it doesn't re-heat very well, so I haven't ordered it in years. Roy Rogers used to have great fried chicken, but those are very scarce.Big Zep said:
I had friends in college who wore blackface one Halloween. They were supposed to be Bob and Rita Marley, and did it not to be racist but because they loved reggae. Still, not the best costume choice one could make.
RevenantKioku
PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS oh god i am drowning in them
Look, I'm not going to defend the idiots for this party, but I think there's a clear difference.Mercury Fred said:
Mercury Fred
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A clear difference between what and what?RevenantKioku said:
PhoenixDark
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Kuroyume said:
Interesting that you choose a topic discussing stereotypes to communicate your own. Irony lol
btw am I the only person who gets a stomach ache after eating KFC? When I was little I prefered their chicken over the less...seasoned chicken my mom/grandma made, but now...gimme grandma's chicken! I'm getting old lol
dskillzhtown
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Kuroyume said:
Yeah, because the knuckleheads at the party represent the rest of the state, right?
They even represent the Black people that were rightfully offended, right?
PhoenixDark
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Kuroyume said:
dskillzhtown said:
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Smiles and Cries
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this will not be the last thread on GAF pointing out ignorance and racism in America
- people saying, we not racist
- people saying, hey thats not racist
- people saying, Ouuu you did a bad thing!
- people saying, Its Ass Whuppin time!
- people saying, my friends did this and they are good people
meh, I will try to resist
- people saying, we not racist
- people saying, hey thats not racist
- people saying, Ouuu you did a bad thing!
- people saying, Its Ass Whuppin time!
- people saying, my friends did this and they are good people
meh, I will try to resist
TheJesusFactor
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Even if it was meant not to be racist, it is just incredibly insensitive.
This reminds me of spending my last high school years in Chalmette LA. A whole large portion of white kids would all go around wearing FUBU, Dickies and gangsta like clothing, talking and walking like an inner-city black person. All of it steming from the new trends they would pick up from the inner-city culture, black people started doing something a week later they were doing it.
Of course they go around doing all this stuff throwing out hey my nigga to all there other white friends. You ask them what they think about the ninth ward(poor all black neighborhood right near us) and they never fail to have some of the most racist shit piled up to talk about them, the hypocricy would nearlly bring me to tears in laughter, while crying on the inside cause of the ignorance of so many southern people around there.
Of course they go around doing all this stuff throwing out hey my nigga to all there other white friends. You ask them what they think about the ninth ward(poor all black neighborhood right near us) and they never fail to have some of the most racist shit piled up to talk about them, the hypocricy would nearlly bring me to tears in laughter, while crying on the inside cause of the ignorance of so many southern people around there.
Kuroyume said:
"Man, I can't believe that all the white people in a given region are so bigoted and prone to use hate, stereotypes, and sweeping generalizations. I hate them all so much."
That is about as kosher as, "You know we wouldn't have racism in this world if it weren't for those damn *insert epithet here."
Stupid bigotry is stupid bigotry.
adamsappel
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I'm sure if I talked to my friends and said, "Hey, remember that time you wore blackface and fake dreadlocks on Halloween?", they would be mortified. I think there is a distinction between costuming yourself as Bob Marley on Halloween in 1985 and wearing a t-shirt that says "I love chicken" and drinking a Forty on MLK Day in 2007. But, since I wasn't the one stupid enough to blacken my face, that's as far as I'll defend it.Smiles and Cries said:
PhoenixDark said:
Are you serious? No really...
While I'll agree that the BET and some other media mediums does nothing to negate these stereotypes, it's a bit of a stretch to actually say that it causes others to really believe that black people act like....^^^that. This party was done out of the stupidity of the students and they needed to be called on it.
Just out of curiousity, where do you live PhoenixDark?
Dynamite Shikoku
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Texas seems like a terrible place. First that chainsaw massacre, now this.
PhoenixDark
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weepy said:
Are you denying that it can re-enforce stereotypes?:lol
I live in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Where do you live?
PhoenixDark
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weepy said:
My rant on BET wasn't meant to be connected to this Texas incident. I'm looking at the issue from a more macro point of view, and the propogation of less than flattering stereotypes in the media.
BET obviously isn't the only culprit of this
Last time I went to Popeye's was in Renton WA a little before the '04 election, and my family were the only white people in there, and then my brother starts going on about something political and how right wing blogs or somthing had labeled senators Kerry, Kennedy, and someone else with a K as "the new KKK."
Didn't seem to be a smart topic of conversation...
Didn't seem to be a smart topic of conversation...
PhoenixDark said:
Well obviously...For instance, I live in one of the most stereotyped places in the US (bloods and crips are on the loose, a murder almost everyday, it's dangerous, yadda yadda) all overexaggerated by the media i.e. the news. Truth is, I could walk around at night and wouldn't get no more than a "wassup" from a few people. It's pretty safe.
PhoenixDark
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weepy said:
I agree, although the numbers certainly speak for themselves with respect to some of the more "dangerous" areas of the country's cities.
HomerSimpson-Man
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explodet said:
"Is this it? This is what I got all them ass whoopin's for?"
Such an awesome episode.
PhoenixDark
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Taichu said:
That's being a tad too naive don't you think?
PhoenixDark
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Triumph Dolomite 1300cc said:
Did you try the potatoes?
I think it's reasonable for people to be offended by these students if they feel any expression of racial stereotypes is inherently bad for society. There's good logic behind that position. However some of the comments posted here make me wonder how many of you live in the real world. There are degrees of racism. White people who disrespect black people on a racial level are not the same as white people who would vote against Obama due to his ethnicity, or who would assume their black co-workers were intellectually inferior, or who would express any of the other dozens of thoughts and behaviours that are in genuine opposition to members of another race. You don't have to be hateful to be ignorant, callous, or unconcerned about causing offence in a given situation.
I'm wowed by the people who are wowing the pleasant looking girl dressed as Aunt Jemima. I don't know where the picture comes from - she could be the daughter of some Klan grandmaster for all I know - but she doesn't seem to express the smug knowledge of someone making a controversial ideological statement. She seems like a happy, racially unconcerned girl who is dressed like the woman on the syrup bottle. There's a big difference between racist and racially unconcerned mentalities.
I'm wowed by the people who are wowing the pleasant looking girl dressed as Aunt Jemima. I don't know where the picture comes from - she could be the daughter of some Klan grandmaster for all I know - but she doesn't seem to express the smug knowledge of someone making a controversial ideological statement. She seems like a happy, racially unconcerned girl who is dressed like the woman on the syrup bottle. There's a big difference between racist and racially unconcerned mentalities.
PhoenixDark
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Triumph Dolomite 1300cc said:
The seasoning I used are for meats/fish, but it gave the potatoes a nice spice
Greenpanda
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Every single student involved in these "parties" should be expelled from school and dragged through the mud from the back of a tractor while being beaten with every blunt object handy.
Then maybe they'll understand a little more about the world and the history they're dealing with.
If anyone lets them live, they should thank their lucky stars that they have received far more kindness than they deserve.
These people have abandoned all sense of human decency and morality and should die like pigs.
Kill 'em all.
edit: And anyone defending their actions on GAF deserves a permaban, IMO.
Then maybe they'll understand a little more about the world and the history they're dealing with.
If anyone lets them live, they should thank their lucky stars that they have received far more kindness than they deserve.
These people have abandoned all sense of human decency and morality and should die like pigs.
Kill 'em all.
edit: And anyone defending their actions on GAF deserves a permaban, IMO.
Father_Mike
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The Faceless Master said:aunt jemima is pretty cute...
I came in here to post that!
Edit: wow Greenpanda...
Greenpanda said:
So true. And we should probably advocate bans for anyone who makes fun of Jesus and the Christians. Don't they know anything about the world and the history they're dealing with? Also cancer patients, AIDS victims, soldiers, and the people of Iraq.
I love that those who mock black people on MLK day are literally incurring the same vitriol as the ethnic cleansers of the world.
Greenpanda
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Aske said:
Uh, they ARE the ethnic cleansers of the world.
You don't think the mindset is identical?
Aske said:
But don't you think it's the least bit ignorant for those student to even throw that type of party, all that were missing were them in black-face. I'm almost positive that they knew what they were doing. Was it meant to be mean-spirited? Who knows, but it's about as tasteless as telling a racial joke at work. Sure it's not as bad as them screaming white power and trying to rid the world of us but these seem like the very same people that would deny me a job despite my qualifications because they think I act like what those pictures depict.
Greenpanda
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weepy said:
Exactly.
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