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

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.

http://thtsrcst.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/lebron_indians.jpg?w=470&h=400

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.

xpost

the parody posters are funny if you don't know they're parodies of something

any d00d who says the "Indians should be proud" of how they're depicted in the sports world should be forced to own a team called the Washington Paisans, with the mascot being a buncha Joey Buttafuoco looking motherfucker running around the field in a wife beaterss.

there's actually no way to turn that one around

buncha beaterss

My high school AND college had "Indian honoring" nicknames that were changed. There are "Once a _____, always a _____" Facebook groups for both. You can purchase shirts -- stand up to the gross injustice.

any d00d who says the "Indians should be proud" of how they're depicted in the sports world should be forced to own a team called the Washington Paisans, with the mascot being a buncha Joey Buttafuoco looking motherfucker running around the field in a wife beaterss.

― Neanderthal, Monday, October 31, 2011 7:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

godfather's pizza anyone?

"Song of the South is a classic, it ain't racist ah tell ya"

can someone explain the lebron one to me, idgi

It's a double caricature.

The Indians logo

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http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiryYNuIKiJYbLoh8fupEUKj55NAEVZvi9uCm5Cp1j4c76AEmGfQ

i don't follow sports at all, so my mind is blown that that shirt immediately registers as "lebron" to people

Me too. I took it as being the regular Cleveland Indians mascot; now I see the Cavs headband and the earring. Here's the actual logo for comparison:
http://www.hanksville.org/sand/stereotypes/images/chiefwahoo.gif
And what the fuck, his name is "Chief Wahoo."

I had a pretty fascinating conversation with an indian guy that I know (who's an ex-marine and cultural studies phd student) about how he's a big Redskins fan. He picked them as his NFL team while growing up even though he lived in the PNW because the logo was the only thing he saw in the media that looked like people he knew. I expected he'd go off about them but his view on was much funnier and complicated than I imagined it would be.

He did say that when he's gone to see them play once or twice he tucked in his braids because he didn't want to give any ammo to the racists who could point to him as supporting their cause.

pardon my ignorance but are geisha costumes offensive?

http://threadbombing.com/data/media/2/popcorn.gif

Verb!

pertinent article

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/10/racist-redskins/

Give us Clevelanders some credit, the logo used to look like this:

http://cf.juggle-images.com/fill-crop-mid/white/200x150/wg-cleveland-indians-4.jpg

The team and its fans still often point to a 2004 survey by the Annenberg Center, which found that by a margin of nine to one, American Indians took no offense at the name Redskins.2 They have bigger problems to worry about. I admit to a mild curiosity about whether they’d feel differently if they knew the name was dreamed up by the sport’s most overtly racist figure, who even in his will (he died in 1969) stipulated that the Redskins Foundation that was to be created with most of his estate not direct a single dollar toward “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.”

I admit to a mild curiosity about whether they’d feel differently if they knew the name was dreamed up by the sport’s most overtly racist figure, who even in his will (he died in 1969) stipulated that the Redskins Foundation that was to be created with most of his estate not direct a single dollar toward “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.”

That is one hell of a sentence.

It doesn't scan perfectly, but I've started to read this thread title to the tune of "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress".

http://www.halloweencostumes.com/blog/post/2011/09/20/how-to-make-a-lil-wayne-costume-or-how-to-have-swagger.aspx

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. ANDRE AGASSI????

http://deadspin.com/5855305/andre-agassi-is-mr-t

hoo boy

I mean, points for actually making an effort re: the rest of the costume but the skin tone is a massive "DON'T DO THAT"

feel like there should be some blackface pool 2012 or something, this shit is getting absurd