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
I've been known to slip into a Southern tinged accent if I'm down in Texas long enough, but I'm really hyper aware of it and also its not racist.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnd7NovxFsg
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
i saw this old SNL skit about Roots where US Senator Al Franken was wearing darkening makeup to play a slave O_O
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
<3 u whiney never change
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
The episode of Sarah Silverman's show where she did blackface was one of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
racist
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
the only time I do this is when I'm talking with people from the U.P., having lived in Wisconsin nearly all my life I have this kind of "latent" accent somewhere that only comes out when everyone around me is speaking with it, it's totally involuntary
― frogbs, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
I have no choice but to alter my accent else (some of) these fuckers here in London won't understand me
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
i've had about four different accents growing up and can lapse into any of them very easily if speaking to someone from any of those areas
I could see where you could lapse into different modes of speech with different ppl, tho, that's not hard to do?
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'm a terrible accent parrot, sure i've told the story about my embarrassing pronunciation of "five pounds?" at the Giant's Causeway carpark
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
feev pinds?
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
s?
― hegel-lacan girl (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
sounded like Martin McGuinness getting a bit bolshy, everybody else in the car fell about laughing. totally unconscious i swear.
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
Both my parents will develop strong West Indian accents when they're around people from the Caribbean. As my mother's a middle-class white lady in her sixties from Chingford, it can be a little incongruous.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
tingford
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
I once saw a brief sketch on some UK TV programme in which two blacked up minstrels were listening to the radio, on which some rightwing politician was saying that minstrels had no place in Britain and that they should all be deported to Minstrel-land or wherever they came from. This made the minstrels sad, so they changed to another station on which Al Jolson or some such was singing "Mammy" or some such, which cheered them up.
Was this racist?
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
tom cruise's irish accent is racist imo
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
L. Ron O'Hubbard told him to do it
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I once saw a brief sketch on some UK TV programme in which two blacked up minstrels were listening to the radio, on which some rightwing politician was saying that minstrels had no place in Britain and that they should all be deported to Minstrel-land or wherever they came from. This made the minstrels sad, so they changed to another station on which Al Jolson or some such was singing "Mammy" or some such, which cheered them up.Was this racist?― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:20 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:20 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Little Britain IIRC, so maybe.
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-zVlB4mvA
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.thesuperficial.com/halle-berry-my-baby-is-black-black-as-night-02-2011
― difficult christening shower (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:18 (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, January 10, 2012 10:22 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
? i havent listened to the record that thoroughly but i thought this was an intentional statement abt performing 'roles' for an audience
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
I honestly don't think I could have been any more sarcastic in that post
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
you'll never know until you try
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 12 January 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
oh. idk what happened
― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Thursday, 12 January 2012 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
lol went to bump the 'Texts From Bennett' thread RIP sandbox
anyway we've not done this yet have we? http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoHikes
― tumblr white's secret kool-aid drinker (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
102,646 followers
― tumblr white's secret kool-aid drinker (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
urban kids
― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
if thats real its about a thousand times more depressing then the us soldiers pissing on the taliban guy video
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
No it's not
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
maybe he's not white ; )
― am0n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.outwardbound.org/index.cfm/do/obs.photo_search_result/activity/Urban%20Expeditions
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
wait, you mean, real as in the fact that organizations do organize hikes in urban areas or real as in there is a person tweeting things that kids say on these hikes
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link