White trick-or-treaters in blackface: C/D?

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.

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?

a good portion of people just have no concept of the history of blackface and why it's even offensive in the first place

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

It's the bullying impulse.

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.

what an awkward conversation to have during sex

hahahahahahhaahah

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.

"your crossover dribble isn't convincing enough, honey"

Yeah, I think that was the argument that sold him iirc.

jon /via/ chi 2.0 is white?!?!

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.

I had forgotten about assface darth vader

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.

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.

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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.

that campaign is great!

the meme is incredibly hilarious tho

let's not forget what's really important here

am with j0hn on that tbh /self-righteous

it's funny tho

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

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.

guy complaining about the poster campaign is p unwatchable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v04IdNPuMlc

vloggy glen beck

haha imagine all the tiresome ranting i am sparing you guys by not watching that

*personal growth*

looks like it could be an lcd soundsystem screengrab, gonna be so disappointed when i click play
xxxp

the meme is incredibly hilarious tho

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

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, 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

same length as 'all my friends' xps

Most annoying person ever - y/n?

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.

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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.

bless you imo

my friend wanted to be katy perry and I was like, you can't, you're not white

that shirt is horrible!

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!

that shirt is.... weird

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).

also "the Washington Redskins"

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?

the Cleveland Browns

okay lol

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.

i think most things involving dogs in costumes are kind of OK.