rolling "even frogbs knows this is racist" thread
― some dude, Monday, January 16, 2012 8:46 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^ still say this should be its own thread
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure frogbs could mount a defense
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
"they were probably friends with the black basketball players so it was okay"
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
wow. What the hell, Pittsburghundians?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Alternately, frogbs would probably launch into something about not understanding how monkeys are racist in the first place.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Local Pittsburgh columnist weighs in, points out that it wasn't just spectators doing racist shit:
Monessen's Chavas Rawlins was also intentionally shoved into wall and doors under the hoop while going in for a layup by Brentwood's Joe Pilarski.The talented junior, who has a promising football career ahead of him, left the Monessen fans breathless as he held his knee in pain. He did return to the game a few minutes later.It was a cheap shot and Pilarski, who appeared proud of his actions, should have been thrown out of the game. No questions asked.The worst part of it, though, was Spartan's coach Dave Mislan, blaming the referees for the actions of his star player.
The talented junior, who has a promising football career ahead of him, left the Monessen fans breathless as he held his knee in pain. He did return to the game a few minutes later.
It was a cheap shot and Pilarski, who appeared proud of his actions, should have been thrown out of the game. No questions asked.
The worst part of it, though, was Spartan's coach Dave Mislan, blaming the referees for the actions of his star player.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't realise Nicky Wire went to highschool in Pittsburgh
― kinder, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
Do we not have a "This Is Racist." thread?
― pplains, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
kinder OTM
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2012/02/08/before_yesterday_knicks_jeremy_lin.php
http://i.imgur.com/A5Z0s.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaBSNop3g9M
― the greates (crüt), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
so far people seem to like the nickname 'shao-lin'
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
go Harvard
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
did u mean to post this gr80
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/402033_10150583038119819_749574818_8713419_689217609_n.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
asian women, to be more precise
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGeMy-6hnr0
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 9 February 2012 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
what the fuck
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 9 February 2012 06:05 (twelve years ago) link
"i know that you're not black and that this is racist?"
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 February 2012 06:10 (twelve years ago) link
youtube links to the dude's facebook
it's kinda goin exactly where you might imagine with this
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 9 February 2012 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
"Entertaining video, but personally I would've punched you in the face if you came up to me looking like that."
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 February 2012 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
make sure you watch till the end when they each do their "black person" impersonation
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 9 February 2012 06:20 (twelve years ago) link
woof, i'll pass thanks
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 February 2012 06:21 (twelve years ago) link
I hate this country.
― You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/miBLJ.png
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Thursday, 9 February 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
You know what, I'm not mad at this dude at all
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
Well okay, I'm a little mad at his opening salvo, but not nearly as mad as I am at all those BYU kids, particularly the black students.
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
i'm totally shocked at this reaction from a school where 98% of the student population actively practices a religion that actively had a "black people can't get into heaven" clause until 1978
― dave cool, Thursday, 9 February 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'm furious that black parents would send their kids into that environment with little to no knowledge of their own history, if for no other reason because all of those white kids are going to be turning to them to ask questions like "what do your people think of slavery" and "what was it like growing up on welfare"
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
god i feel guilty right now for wanting to say "incidentally, DJP, I've been meaning to ask you..."
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
ugh someone recorded video of the banana suit incident. i feel sick. http://bit.ly/1Efd60
― dave cool, Thursday, 9 February 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
probably said it a million times on ilx but I always remember re: ignorant college students this guy who lived down the hall from me in the dorms who was talking to the one black guy on our floor and said, looking at his hand, "You know, you black people are funny. Your skin is darker, but your palms are really pink!"
big old dumb farmboy dude
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 9 February 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
stuff like that really makes me feel like parents who act all 'colorblind' and don't talk to their kids about race or racism before sending them out into the world are some of the biggest assholes
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
there are studies out there that back that assertion up
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
(I should really track down a primary link to the study)
Soon as I saw BYU in big letters, I knew I was in for a traet.
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
BYU ideas
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
talking to the one black guy on our floor and said, looking at his hand, "You know, you black people are funny. Your skin is darker, but your palms are really pink!"
Reminded me of :36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uguq0u1ARUo
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
I work in an office of about 75 people, and we've got one black dude who works here. I always feel bad at him on the retreats because inevitably, assholes get drunk and want to play "Ask a Black Dude".
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
And hey, that's Darrell up there in the screen grab!
I could be selectively remembering, but I don't feel like I was that race conscious until sometime in the middle of elementary school. I went to a school that was mostly white but had a handful of black kids in each class, and, for reasons having to do with DC demographics, most of the teachers were black. When I had black friends in kindergarten or first grade I don't remember it occuring to me that blackness was a significant attribute. I certainly don't remember thinking it about teachers, since it was taken for granted. There was definitely some threshold in elementary school where suddenly it seemed like, "oh, those kids are black," but I can't pinpoint it. I'm sure media had an effect too -- until at least third or fourth grade I don't think I had any significant exposure to things like hip-hop, and the primary media representations of black people I had seen really were through stuff like sesame street and the cosby show.
― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
There are a lot of things to be depressed about in that study—the parents’ resistance to talking to their children about race, the naivete of the colorblind crowd—but it was really encouraging to see these results:
And, for all six, their children dramatically improved their racial attitudes in a single week.
The thing that drives me nuts about liberal whites who subscribe to this idea of colorblindness is the willful ignorance of how colorblindness is used by modern racists to deflect criticism and to justify institutional racism and racist actions and beliefs.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
I understand *wanting* to believe that children, left to their own devices will automatically develop positive attitudes around race, but there are all sorts of lessons you teach your children to help guide them into making right choices, because you know they will often make horrible choices and develop bad habits, and weird ideas that seemingly come out of nowhere. Why would you believe race would be any different?
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Before like kindergarden, my only exposure to black people was the Little Rascals and I remember distinctly thinking that when they get chicken pox, it makes white spots instead of dark ones. :/
― dave cool, Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKzn8aHyXg
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
I was in my late teens before I realized that watermelons don't really cause sickle-cell anemia.
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
Before like kindergarden, my only exposure to black people was the Little Rascals and I remember distinctly thinking that when they get chicken pox, it makes white spots instead of dark ones. http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Thursday, February 9, 2012 11:27 AM
― am0n, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
― pplains, Thursday, February 9, 2012 12:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if this is a joke i'm going to repost it to the "Is This Racist?" thread oh wait
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
It's not a joke.
I was in health class and had the worst kind of "waaaiiitt a minute…" re-evaluations ever.
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
When I was younger, my daycare crew ate some watermelon on the front porch. Our baby-sitter told us not to eat too much or we'd get sickle-cell anemia.
I didn't know what that was and certainly didn't know that it was a disease that affected mostly African-Americans. It didn't come up again until years later in that health class and fortunately for me, I was able to accept my discovery silently in my head. (Instead of raising my hand and completely embarrassing myself.)
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link