sorry old
― caek, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pR20n_U234
is this racist
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
Did u watch her little Wayne one? If not, do so. Now.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
wow, Kreayshawn fell off fast
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57802000/jpg/_57802534_rappaport2-1.jpg
Germany's Schlosspark Theatre defends 'blackface' actor
― Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
you know what else belongs on this thread, is the verb "to black up"
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
although that is small potatoes compared to: In 2009, Dresden Zoo had to apologise after naming a small baboon after Mr Obama.
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
"Many older black actors come from the music industry, and that wasn't a fit for the play as it wasn't a musical," he told The Local newspaper.
"When we couldn't find an elderly black actor who fit the role and could speak with a perfect German accent, we opted for blackface make-up."
He said he was saddened by the controversy: "I tried to make a play about racism and ended up being called a racist".
looooooooooooooooooool
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGkn8TFaySg
Convincing Indian guy here in One Armed Boxer
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
"to black up", Dan? Like, "he was really blacking up the place"?
― beachville, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
Director Thomas Schendel said they had been unable to find the right elderly black actor to play the role of Midge Carter so had opted for blacking-up 76-year-old white actor Joachim Bliese.
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
oh holy shit all of that but also the baboon thing!! :(
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67cx9M2c51M
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
if there's one person who I would expect to be totally tone-deaf to the phrase "black up", it's Butterfly
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
Do we reckon that basically it is wrong for anyone to ever play someone of a different race than themselves, or is it only wrong for whitey to play black people?
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
or neither?
generally speaking, I think it is tied to the performance but it's usually safer not to do it
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
I'm kind of surprised by this*, as I've only heard it used to mean "to colour one's face", rather than, for example, the "adopt a comedy walk" end of the spectrum. I mean it's obviously always a pretty bad idea, but I thought the description was being.. descriptive? Like "skin lightening" but without the skin.
*And, obviously, a little defensive :)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
it's a US/UK thing I think
or maybe a DJP/rest of the world thing, I dunno
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I don't think "black up" is offensive in that sentence. it's the idea you have a problem with.
heh heh heh
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
i play someone of a different race than myself in skyrim
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
For me, the question is why the hell does a German theatre want to do a production of "I'm Not Rappaport".
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
If I was the production manager I would've thought.. "yeah this flew last time we did it in like the 80s or whatever, but I don't think we should put this on again unless we can find an actually black actor to fill the roll..."
I dunno - or maybe I'd be a common, parochial German and think that there was absolutely nothing wrong with this.
Seriously though, if they couldn't find the right actor that's maybe a sign not to put on the play; and I think that kind of theater superstition crosses all nationalities. But then - on the other other hand -- I remember plenty of times where there weren't enough dudes in high school drama and so a few boy parts were given to girls, who had to -- I suppose -- "man up" for the part.
― Frobisher (Viceroy), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Socks with sandals, people in blackface, so many ways to spot the German tourists
― mh, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
you left out speedos
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
germans are pretty racist
― caek, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5874912/
LOL @ Gawker's first "Is this thing that doesnt exist yet hypothetically racist?" post. Congrats, team.
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
LONG DUCK DONG
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
I'm excited about this tumblr:
http://racistpoliticalads.tumblr.com/
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
hey no-one ever tell Dan backstage to "break a leg" ok?
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:15 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
shit hypothetical white girls in blackface say to the internet
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
I think there is something to this... an act which would be racist/offensive in some contexts is not so in other where the same cultural resonances do not apply.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
I'm kind of surprised by this*, as I've only heard it used to mean "to colour one's face", rather than, for example, the "adopt a comedy walk" end of the spectrum.
I can't think of an occasion (like, a potential real-life occurance) in which colring one's face to appear as of a different race wouldn't inately be "adopting a comedy walk" to some extent.
― beachville, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpp0akRxzm1qfumd9o1_400.gif
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
^ was always surprised they got away with this tbh
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
Is that Vic and Bob?
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
Also, am I the only one that keeps reading it as Eshitaki?
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Vic and Bob as Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, "Just sittin' on the dock of the beaaayyyyyyy"
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
Man I'm not really questioning the racism of this, but its been bugging me so much. We've got this middle-aged white guy here at work that starts talking in, I don't know, some bastardized version of ebonics whenever he talks to one of our black coworkers. I kind of thought I was imagining it or mishearing him or something at first, but now that someone else pointed it out I can't stop noticing it. For example he'll say, "you be survivin', huh?" or "I can dig that miss thing" to our HR head, but he never says any of those things to white coworkers. Its maddening now that I had it pointed out to me.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
Silly old fool
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
this may be a subconscious reaction in some people
― frogbs, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
I have a very good friend who subconsciously parrots back accents to people; this can get very embarrassing for him very quickly but it is almost always hilarious
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
― frogbs, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:36 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i hear that, ribbit ribbit
― seasonal thug (some dude), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:29 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yeah, that's what I thought it was. I was wondering if they'd done other similar stuff I hadn't seen.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
This is definitely not a case of parroting accents though, particularly the word choices he uses.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh I HATE that. Especially when the speaker normally talks completely not that way at all. My ex-bf sort of picked up a "jive" accent in social settings around black people, esp women, and it was kind of annoying but he was younger and he regularly used slang and generally talked "younger". That guy sounds like a dorky dad trying to fit in.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
I did that yesterday while talking to a white guy I work with who has a heavy, heavy southern accent. A couple of things i said came out really southern. It can happen subconciously.
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jvcMEG6kg
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/columnists/2010/4/16/1271445525521/FC-Twente-manager-Steve-M-001.jpg
^^ Accschent adopting raschist
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link