rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

feev pinds?

s?

sounded like Martin McGuinness getting a bit bolshy, everybody else in the car fell about laughing. totally unconscious i swear.

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.

tingford

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?

tom cruise's irish accent is racist imo

L. Ron O'Hubbard told him to do it

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

Little Britain IIRC, so maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-zVlB4mvA

http://www.thesuperficial.com/halle-berry-my-baby-is-black-black-as-night-02-2011

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

I honestly don't think I could have been any more sarcastic in that post

you'll never know until you try

oh. idk what happened

lol went to bump the 'Texts From Bennett' thread RIP sandbox

anyway we've not done this yet have we? http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoHikes

102,646 followers

urban kids

if thats real its about a thousand times more depressing then the us soldiers pissing on the taliban guy video

No it's not

maybe he's not white ; )

http://www.outwardbound.org/index.cfm/do/obs.photo_search_result/activity/Urban%20Expeditions

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

the latter duh

as a 'funny shit kids say' this is a great twitter feed - too bad about the name

dun dis da dat

as a 'funny shit kids say' this is a great twitter feed - too bad about the name

― bob loblaw people (dayo), Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:19 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"as a bit of old-fashioned slapstick fun 'long duk dong' is a great comedic performance - too bad about the name"

??

pretty thorough sonning tbf

reading thru a bunch of these, the kids, if real, all sound really funny and engaged with what's going on around them, and being held up for gentle mockery, mark twain accents and all, is really pissing me off.

Ghetto Hikes
Comedian

https://www.facebook.com/ghettohikes

ghikes

"Bring the first aids kit, Leon think he tore his rotisserie cuff."

and being held up for gentle mockery, mark twain accents and all, is really pissing me off.

― goole, Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:52 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, this is the problematic part

the only way this would be better is if there was a button that, when you clicked it, would play a clip of the author reading them

i dunno how 'gentle' it is tbh. i mean, i'm assuming this guy has some affection for these kids and his job.

i thought the name was the only problematic part, dayo?

I simply write down shit they say.

are you implying that the twitter is a parody?

I simply write down shit dey say.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tSlbFO8QCvU/TtJc7vhI84I/AAAAAAAABwY/jE-Rbk5h87E/s1600/Kids-Say-the-Darndest-Things-Volume-2.jpg

dayo i'm not saying it's a parody/not real -- i'm saying that an hour ago you seemed to say it's just a great and funny twitter feed with an unfortunate name and now you seem to be saying that the overall project is problematic

yeah, this is the problematic part

― bob loblaw people (dayo), Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:58 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

isn't this like saying that the massive buckteeth are the only problem w/ the ronaldinho bottle opener?

I simply use dem to open bottles.

that's only one word racist

I made that post more to point out that I found the content of the feed funny by itself - because I got the sense that most people who followed that feed probably did so to laugh at what was said in, as goole said, a mocking way. I probably should have paused at the method of transcription and to have considered the full implications of the twitter name and now that I do so I do realize that yes, it makes the whole project problematic.

fair enough

j0rd, love you boo but stop trying to trip me up

ghetto hikes, urban kids, ugh jesus christ