This I can understand more than the Halloween costume thing...I mean why not just hire black comedians? Saturday Night Live does this as well and I'm not that fond of it, especially since the guy they always "black up" is such an awful unfunny douchebag whose impressions are all crap. I mean seriously just hire some more black comedians, people.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― sfxxxx, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
there have never been that many good ones in the UK [/'racist']
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
i can
― sfxxx, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost no I mean that one dude, the one who sometimes does Bill Clinton, who is that guy? Whatever he is, he's crap.
xxpost ETHAN NO ONE IS SAYING THAT, WE'RE SAYING THAT YOU ARE OVERREACTING, IS THIS QUESTIONABLE? YES. IS THIS "INEXCUSABLE"? NO, IT'S A KID DRESSING UP AS HIS HERO. SHOULD HIS PARENTS HAVE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THIS? PROBABLY, THEY SHOULD'VE ASKED HIM TO NOT DRESS UP AS BEN WALLACE. THE CONCLUSIONS YOU ARE DRAWING FROM THIS EVENT AND PEOPLE SAYING "LISTEN IT'S NOT AS BAD AS THAT" ARE REALLY KIND OF CRAZY. ALSO YOU ARE WHITE. ALSO YOU ARE TEAMING UP WITH A DUDE WHO IS BOTHERED BY PEOPLE WHO WEAR NEGRO LEAGUE HATS AND AFROS ON HALLOWEEN WHICH KIND OF PROBABLY MAKES YOUR ARGUMENT LOOK MORE CRAP.
posted in caps cos I don't think you are getting it that we're just saying "You are overreacting."
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost i am not "teaming up" with dude, but i agree about afro wigs on halloween as stated above
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
if there weren't a protest, you probably didn't know about it?
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
-- miccio (anthonyisrigh...) (webmail), November 1st, 2005 11:28 AM. (miccio) (later) (link)
http://xanga.projectblogsphere.com/images/video-southParkMrJefferson.jpg
― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.dreammovies.net/affiches1/soulman.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Huh?
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
And I mean if they didn't "black up" but kept on the synthetic afros to signify Ben Wallace, is that ok? Cos Andy is saying it isn't. I mean is it just not ok for them to be Ben Wallace for Halloween, or is it just the blackface?
xpost, I guess not. Why is THAT bad? I've seen white dudes with actual 'fros, you know.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
that its an 8 year old most likely emulating someone he admires rather than a frat kid at "pimps and hos night" or Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd blame rock music for that, personally.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
This is probably the most ostentatiously offensive thing written on this thread so far. Good job!
― Dan (I Won't Play Your Field Nigger, Either) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (PEACE OUT) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I still wanna know if it's just impossible for a kid to do this at all, minus the blackface. Why would it be bad for a kid to put on a wig and a jersey and be Ben Wallace?
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
well, i don't think i need to point out the irony of this, but what the hell. "give your peers some respect or fuck off"... um, okay... and, to be fair, i thought that
and yeah i dont blame the kid but its the parents job to teach them whats deemed racially insensitive just as it is to teach them all cultural standards.
shows some sympathy to the kid. i think alex's comments that a child deserves to be beaten up are far more offensive than anything else here.
― sfxxx, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
haha jess are you his dad?
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
is it perfectly inoffensive to say that black people are predisposed to being able to write with big paragraphs?
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, right.
― Dan (Like I Buy That) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
the birmingham black barons became the birmingham barons, and are the AA affiliate of the chicago white sox (famously, you may remember michael jordan getting some at-bats as a baron). their stadium isn't incredibly old, i'm gonna guess it was built in '89 or '90? it's in hoover, tho.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link