rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

sorry that wasn't US History obviously, that was World History

crucial difference

haha that's not far off, but it was a willie shot w/the iconic headband and braids i think

Given who posted it, this http://www.theroot.com/buzz/teacher-student-read-poem-blacker was probably gotcha-bait, but I do think it's worth looking at

WTF man

tip o the hat to you crut

fyi some ppl are saying the teacher in the Root article was black... Still racist?

feel like ANY teacher telling a black student he's not acting black enough for the class falls under the racism umbrella

omg you guys I just remembered

my high school staged The Wiz but did a "redneck" version instead of a "black" version because the cast was almost all white

it was as inadvisable as you could imagine

The Cheez Wiz

feel like ANY teacher telling a black student he's not acting black enough for the class falls under the racism umbrella

― Lester the Unlikely (crüt), Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:33 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what if the poem is deliberately written in black dialect, and the teacher & student are both black? "racism" doesn't seem like the best word to describe the dynamic...

i would say the teacher had a poor choice of words

instead of saying "read more black" she should have just said "read it in the voice it's written in"

when the kid asked if the teacher thought all black people spoke that way she should have answered the question instead of telling him to sit down and shut up

and the poem IS deliberately written in *a* black vernacular, not *the* black vernacular

I remember heads turning towards me once in fourth grade when the Holocaust got mentioned and I was the only Jewish kid in class. My teacher, who was black, expressed sympathy, and recalled the same thing happening to her when slavery came up.

So yeah tokenization sucks. Though perhaps it didn't help that for years my parents came in to class around the holidays so we could explain Hanukah to people. Though on the other hand I had to put up with Christmas carols being sung in class like everybody cared about that holiday as recently as 11th grade.

Ok back to actual racism instead of me perpetrating the War on Christmas.

What so I should read "Ulysses" in a comedy oirish accent then?

when the kid asked if the teacher thought all black people spoke that way she should have answered the question instead of telling him to sit down and shut up

Sadly I had a lot of teachers with exactly this attitude, ALL the time.

Not the black thing, the "dont question me, stfu" thing.

i've always had trouble spotting the lines between simple insensitivity, prejudice and racism

luckily there's usually a helpful white person around to sort it out for me

What so I should read "Ulysses" in a comedy oirish accent then?

It's probably a sign of my inner malignancy that I think this is a hilarious idea.

Jakers! meets Ulysses

Re the redneck Wiz:

I played Harriet Tubman in a third grade school play. The two black girls in my class played slaves whom I helped to freedom. One teacher suggested I do this in blackface but somebody thankfully intervened. This play aired on local television.

trayce only the Stephen parts are read that way, leopold should be done in Mel brooks' voice

comedy Shane McGowan impression also acceptable

jakers otm

shane mcgowan has a london accent iirc but i mean who can tell tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSahS9k9zqw

he just loved auctions, i guess

― less of the same (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 08:58 (56 minutes ago)

booming p btw

:)

What so I should read "Ulysses" in a comedy oirish accent then?

No. Only Shakespeare should be read in a comedy oirish accent.

Singling one kid out to be the group spokesperson for whatever group is just bullshit imo.

― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Tuesday, March 20, 2012 5:33 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxp2fzAqAJ1r9zsizo1_500.jpg

BIG HOOS w/the tumblr white perspective

bam

Suddenly I am very embarrased to own that tshirt >:|

blame the glasses imo

Why do you have a shirt asking for Black perspective on that proposal?

hahah I know I was kind of , whoa Tracye, on that at first

that's like the 00s version of wayne and garth

the reboot if you will

Guy on the left is p cute; I'm going to assume he was never asking a dumb superimposed question.

on of my coworkers has started using the term 'canadians' when referring to black ppl. i know it's racist bc he does it when he wants to say something racist about black ppl, but i don't know where it comes from. is there some piece of popular media he got it from or is this his own invention?

Derived from Geoffrey Canada, maybe?

If that's the case, it makes the usage feel somehow doubly heinous.

Hasn't the "Canadians" thing been brought up before?

It's an old restaurant worker meme. I'm sure if you wanted to Google "black people" Canadians, something would show up. (besides pictures of Rick Fox.)

yeah I've read it on here in a t*pping thread or 'share your terrible table waiting experiences' thread

the same colleague passed around the office yesterday a picture that one of our contractors sent him of Reagan petting the monkey from Bedtime for Bonzo with some racist Obama joke attached to it.

i kno, i kno whiney. this doesn't fit the exact parameters of the thread. don't tase me, bro.

Seems like there's enough of a smoking gun there to get the guy disciplined?

It's an old restaurant worker meme.

Yes, still in use (in the US south at least) c. 2003 when I last waited tables.

ask him if he has a funny euphemism for jewish people and then set his desk on fire

Does he complain about how the mexicans are controlling the media?

uh no question about this one

like, how can that even be real