rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

also someone should email her and let her know. i'm sure she would be extremely flattered.

We just need Dominique Leone to moderate the resultant debate.

can she summon up the glorious musical heritage of creole new orleans y/n

There ain't none Cajunier

The Princess and the Frog was about her and Michel Foucault.

GIS search for "sasha frere jones" reveals black woman as image #6 (beyonce), white women at 11 and 13 (fiona and lana del rey) WHAT IS HE HIDING

HIS JUNK

you're thinking of shouts and murmurs i think

http://ichlugebullets.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/sasha-fierce1.jpg%3Fw%3D268%26h%3D300

“You could argue that Dr. Dre and Snoop were the most important pop musicians since Bob Dylan and the Beatles,” Frere-Jones once wrote. You could argue that—if Bob Dylan had been a pop musician to begin with, or if Dr. Dre had released more than a single groundbreaking album during his entire career.

Sasha Frere-Jones' penis is a white man's penis.

You could argue that Jake Delhomme was the most important quarterback since Johnny Unitas.

can't believe chronic 2001 was slighted like that

wait till this guy gets the kendrick album we'll show him

early in my mid-90s trance days, I assumed that

http://www.julieb.net/images/Music/DJ%20Sasha%20large.jpg

might have looked something like

http://djsolano.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/dj_rebecca_saforia.png

i used to think baseball player michael bourn was white because of matt damon

I don't know how to break this to everybody, but Eli manning is a white man

I'm flabbergasted by this article tbh

can't wait for the guy writing about how stunned he is that Ira Glass is a Jew

In related news, Kelsey Grammer is also a white man.

Madeleine Albright isn't British

i am not even sure if this is racist (first time i have ever said that on this thread) as much as dumb as balls.

poor balls

Sasha Frere-Jones' penis is erect because he's blind.

holy shit lol

tbh I always default to thinking of Sasha as a guy's name, and I always pictured SFJ as a kind of Safran-Foer dude, which as it turns out was kind of in the right ballpark... black woman!? wtf. That has to have been a trolly article having a dig at his writing, right?

Many Americans first exposure to the name Sasha was through Supermodel of the World, which may be where all the confusion stems from.

Granted, most Americans don't read Russian literature and therefore don't know it's a unisex diminutive for Alexander/Alexandra (or Natasha, if your name is Sasha Obama).

When I was growing up I only knew two Sashas: one was a boy at my school and the other was my friend's cat. My default is to think cat before male or female.

I would probably be more forgiving towards SFJ's writing if he was a cat, that would be adorable.

Would pay hard cash to see an all-white funk band fronted by a cat

Just as long as it wasn't frigging Jameowquai

how would you know the cat was white?

Granted, most Americans don't read Russian literature and therefore don't know it's a unisex diminutive for Alexander/Alexandra (or Natasha, if your name is Sasha Obama).

― ella fingerblast hurls forever (suzy), Thursday, October 25, 2012 8:17 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's true, although i think in russian it's more commonly a boy's name? i think it's a great name for a dude.

Male and female Sashas in my college class; guys' names pronounced Sash-a (as in window), women's names pronounced Saaaah-sha.

why were they screaming, were you throwing them out of windows?

sash-a sounds more like a britishism than anything

a friend just gave his car a 'typical black female name', i don't know what to think of it.

"Michelle"?

Michelle wouldn't be a problem in a french speaking province.
It's Mo'Nique. They insist on the apostrophe and use the accent. I was fine with it until I realised it wasn't a particular hommage to Mo'Nique.

if the naming has more to do with racial caricature than francophone africa than yes, def racist imho

the "I was fine with it until" sentence is killing me. good work.

I get annoyed by people who name their cars, but that's more for the irrational thread than this one.

Great racist car names corner: in the distant 1980s, a relative's brown Mercedes-Benz 240D, which did 0-60 in about 18 seconds and was named Steppin Fetchit. Took me about a decade to figure out that that was extremely uncool.

Care to explain so we don't all have to wait a decade? I have no idea what that name means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepin_Fetchit ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepin_Fetchit

I hope they had personalized plates and frequently broke down in mixed neighborhoods.

STPNFCHT

I get annoyed by people who name their cars, but that's more for the irrational thread than this one.

If that's irrational, then I don't want to be rational.

Here is some Stepin Fetchit. His work has to be seen to be believed; I also think it's worth knowing that this was mainstream Hollywood once up a time, and he became a very rich man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10OFvL75Ww0