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
holy crap
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
holy hell
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
O_O
― dave cool, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
heh, that reminds me of when my old landlord took me and my sister aside when we were ten to explain to us why there were so many black people in prison. he just wanted to make sure we were properly informed.
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
did he give you a somber chat about the grim realities of institutionalized racism?
― dave cool, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
no but one day he did inform me that i wasn't a country boy until i squished some cowshit between my toes
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
he was right on the latter i guess.
I do that all the time and I'm not a country boy
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
great start though
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
and Austerity Ponies OTM
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
I know Dave (who did the BYU video), and he's actually a really good and smart and funny guy. It's worth noting that a good number of people who know him and know these things about him have called him out on the ill-advisedness of this most recent endeavor (which, from my perspective, is more a result of his high rate of production superceding his good judgment than anything else).
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
oh well, if you say he's a really good guy.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
hey i know Deric W. Haircare, he's a really good judge of character.
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
"You know, I hate racists as a whole, but on the level individually, I can get along with them 'alright."
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
I do think it's kind of important to consider the "fight ignorance with ignorance" stinger at the end of this video
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
"I mean, if Apocolypto's on Encore again, I usually stick with it for a half hour or so."
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
i couldn't make it to the end of the damn video
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
"i've had lots of convos with dude and everything points to the fact that dude seriously likes rap music."
― am0n, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, congratulations to you all on your reading comprehension.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
thank you!
― am0n, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
y'all being some serious dicks to deric
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
in the face of a public video i'm not sure what relevance he's actually a really good and smart and funny guy is supposed to have
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
dave not cool
― buzza, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Horseshoe, I'm just saying that it'll be really unfortunate if this particular video winds up being the thing he's most well-known for, as it's not indicative of him as a person to the extent that I know him or of his other work.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
Anytime you make a race video, that is the thing you will be most well-known for.
― beachville, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, February 9, 2012 2:16 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah it's really unfortunate that he made the choices he did!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
But then I knew going in that defending anyone in the 'Is this racist?' thread was going to be a losing battle whether you disapproved of the questionably racist work in question or not, so...whatever.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
I forget that things are always either black or white.
Wait...is that racist?
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
aw, sorry ur feelins got hurt
― max, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
Deric, I'm not attacking you for being friends with the guy or anything. But I do want to hear a couple of good reasons why it's not offensive for a white person to get dolled up in brown make-up, attempt some sort of gangsta jive accent (at least in the beginning) and run around BYU asking about Black History Month?
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
I heard that Michael Richards is really nice.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
he didn't say it wasn't offensive, wtf
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
seriously y'all are way overreacting
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
(which, from my perspective, is more a result of his high rate of production superceding his good judgment than anything else)
where 'anything else' = .....
― D-40, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
lmao crut no one is doing anything but clowning on the dude
― max, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
that video is clearly and aggressively antiracist. dude doing the interviews is clearly and aggressively antiracist. the fact that he decided to do it in brownface may be a lot of things (insensitive, unfortunate, fucking stupid, w/e), but it doesn't necessarily make him a racist himself. intent matters.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
oh, okay
― max, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
pplains, once again: I'm defending him. I am not defending the video. I've known other people in the improv community who would regularly go to some really questionably racist/sexist/homophobic places, and I'd be just as quick to say, "This is wholly indicative of the person I know" if one of those people had produced the video, and just as quick to register my disapproval.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:36 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what is the purpose of your hairsplitting here? its racially insensitive
― D-40, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
I think what contenderizer was trying to say is that blackface is always acceptable
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
Blackface is usually kind of a bad idea.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
my fav part of blackface is always when they show the dude while it's getting done
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
my fav part of blackface
things that should not be a poll
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
i thought we'd already gone through a big discussion w/ a huge OTM nabisco post & people understood that divining who is and isn't technically 'a racist' on stuff like this is total point missing
― D-40, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
He was trying to be edgy and/or sophisticated and thinking he could get away with it because other people with sophisticated senses of humor would understand what he was doing.
― beachville, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
do you guys talk to your barbers while getting a haircut, I don't it's kind of awkward
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
I could not imagine how I would feel talking to a blackface artist if I were to get it done
I cut my own hair.
― beachville, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
However, I defer to the services of a professional when blacking up. : \
― beachville, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link