i can def see that
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, if it's wrong to make fun of people who drink cough syrup to get high, I don't wanna get high.
― doobieborther, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
How does all the lol ghetto retard stuff on lamebook.com fit into this thread? Not sure if I'd rather it be real or fake.
― zomg_bong.mp3 (Kerm), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i think a bunch of well-off white people looking at it on their MacBook Pros and laughing at it through a mouthful of Whole Foods salad bar is pretty racist
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
glad I'm broke, on a dell, and had chili for lunch then.
― zomg_bong.mp3 (Kerm), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
black people eat Whole Foods salad bar, too
― sarahel, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
so like, on a pitchfork scale of 0.0 to 10.0, where 10.0 is a lynching, and 0.0 is Martin Luther King Jr. enjoying a cup of coffee while making breakfast, in his pajamas, humming a soft song to himself, where would the MacBook Pro thing fall? where does this comment fall?
I think this thread, while started with the noblest of intentions, has been a failure. And the reason I believe it has failed is that we (as a society) are so resigned to simply declaring something racist or not, as if it's binary, instead of attempting to quantify exactly how racist something really is, using numerical scales.
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
that scene from Louie where the school bus breaks down in Harlem and he reassigns the black kids the window seats: greater than 1.2?
*folds hands, rests elbows on desk, places chin on fingertips, looks up and slightly to the left, thinks*
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i think you've anticipated an exciting new direction for Pitchfork Reviews Reviews
― sarahel, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
God, this fucking thread. Is this racist? Is it? Well? I need something to be outraged about, fuckin' tell me!!! Ugh.
― SourPatchCorpse, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont think anyone is really all that outraged tbh
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Was Dr. King's morning coffee fair trade or unregulated?
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Exactly, this thread isn't about being outraged at these things, it's about discussing them, and learning from them, and analyzing peoples motivations, gaining valuable insight into contemporary race relations, and proposing solutions for a more equitable society. Which is why it is essentially ineffectual, and why we should focus on merely assigning submitted material a score.
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
we can't be sure, can we, so let's kick it up to 0.8
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
xp that is not for me, as a MacBook Pro owner, to say
jk i don't really own one of those racist fuckin computers ;p
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
venti frap all over the keyboard
― jeff, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
black people eat Whole Foods salad bar, too― sarahel, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 3:19 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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white people live in "ghetto"s too, but hilarious that you missed my point so wildly
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i55.tinypic.com/20ur8gm.png
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:41 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark
3.9 imo, though it depends what you were eating when you posted it
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
meth is a white trash drug last time I checked, but ok?
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
stop being rooster racists
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
So it's only OK to laugh at Mexicans when they do white trash drugs?
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm more laughing at the rooster, honestly
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
you better be
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
also, mods plz delete jpg from thread, there's a reason thats on 77
in case l0rena googles "20ur8gm.png"
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG GOOGLE FOR http://i55.tinypic.com/20ur8gm.png AND FIND LORENA
― jeff, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
ahahaha
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Your search - 20ur8gm.png - did not match any documents.
― markers, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
when ppl talk abt "traditional african culture"
― a fucking knitted scarf (another al3x), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm reading a column in a COLLEGE NEWSPAPER about Obama "getting his grove back"
This is kinda racist right?
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 September 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
GROOVE*********
That one is questionable. I doubt intentionally racist, but certainly guilty of trying and failing to be "witty".
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
bohemian groove
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
orange grove- racist, sectarian
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Ok actually this was based off a bill Clinton quote
I bet this chick is still kinda racist, but my apologies
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 September 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Clinton can't be racist because he was the first black president.
― Super Cub, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
^racist?
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/led-zepplin-front-man-spooked-black-music
Led Zepplin Front Man 'Spooked' by Black MusicBy nsenga.burtonCreated 09/22/2010 - 18:30
Robert Plant refers to black music as "spook music."
Fresh from the "We can't make this up file," Led Zepplin front man Robert Plant said that "spook music" is one of his favorite genres of music. When did he do this? On a recent appearance on The Today Show. While promoting his new album Band of Joy, Plant opened up about his influences. "[British people] didn't really have the musical knowledge as you guys have [in America]," said Plant. "So we tapped as much American 'spook music' as we could -- as much blues -- mixed it up and nobody liked it. But the feeling of freedom was fantastic." Take the needle off the record. The man whose work is clearly an appropriation of black culture, doesn't know that "spook music," is a derogatory term for black music? Wow. We won't mention the time period of when Led Zepplin ruled the airwaves. He should appropriate some more black culture and call himself "The Great Pretender," because that is what he appears to be.
― *makes 'drinky-drinky' motion with hand* (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^sounds highly unlikely, show me the clip
― do you feel me? somebody, feel me (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS5GHOkCCgY&feature=player_embedded#
― *makes 'drinky-drinky' motion with hand* (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
massive facepalm
― bang (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
wth
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe he just doesn't know, thinks its akin to ~spooky~......it's not a racial epithet in england
don't rly care either way but just saying
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ "thinks its akin to spooky" uh no he doesn't
― zvookster, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
think he was probably trying to make some point abt how the music was held in low esteem by whites who weren't him & jon bonham. like there's a bit of time travel going on. he might have said "race music".
― zvookster, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
classic interview response
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
in his defence, he didn't say spook music was his favorite genre. that actually is from the department of making it up.
― zvookster, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
um that quote is not in the clip
― do you feel me? somebody, feel me (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
so again, show me the evidence or I'm gonna continue believing this is some kind of misquote/misinterpretation cuz I really have a hard time believing Page would knowingly and casually use a racial epithet
― do you feel me? somebody, feel me (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link