rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

what does she say in that line about the bodegas and lips? i can't make it out exactly but i'd be surprised if it wasn't offensive

yuck

i hate everything about this song

Esso like debuted at no. 38 on Billboard. Which, I know it takes like very few copies to do, but that doesn't happen to, like, Thee Oh Sees or Grimes or w/e

Where are people even hearing this garbage?

idk, i'd imagine there's a big promotional push by some third party with major label affiliations but i don't know whom.

Stereogum premiered their video: 1 comment, 37 tweets

being in one of these bands doesn't seem like fun at all

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dh5lZmvXybg/Tc1uevkeFYI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Q7S7JNdFPP8/s640/Lawn+Jockey.gif

I see white lawn jockey ornaments and think, yeah, I guess it's an improvement over the black lawn jockey ornaments, but it still rubs me the wrong way. What's the idea or concept being conveyed? "Remember back in olden days when you'd have men in uniform stand around holding the horses? They were usually blacks forced into servitude, but here's an effigy offered in white."

Maybe I'm off. Maybe it goes back to Scottish times when white people held their horses. Maybe not though.

I think they mostly exist so that old white people can say "Remember when those things used to be black? Can't get away with that anymore ho ho"

I have an honest ITR: a friend of mine believes that any celebration involving the breaking of a piñata is inherently racist, unless it is a celebration entirely by and for Mexican people. This had never occurred to me before, but I'd be perfectly happy to accept that it is correct. Do you agree with my friend or not?

My huge almost-entirely-white extended family has included a piñata at our family reunion / Christmas celebration every year for decades in a manner that had previously seemed to me to be free of its historical cultural context (the piñata is not a traditional or stereotypical shape or color, there is no obvious element of "Mexican blackface" surrounding the breaking of it: no costumes, no broken spanish is spoken, etc).

What prompted this specifically was this event , which I'd thought it might be fun to go to, before my friend objected.

oh god i'm a racist aren't i

wikipedia lol suggests that the pinata has roots in chinese, european and mesoamerican tradition, & that the word itself is of italian origin. similar traditions exist all over the world. never heard anyone suggest that the pinata is the reserved and sacred cultural property of mexicans, but i suppose i wouldn't know.

Ha, no fucking way is this racist. If it is, I'll be sure to tell the Hispanic owner of the party store we get our annual birthday piñatas from, that sorry, his products are racist when purchased by people who look like my family.

there is plenty of racist bullshit that happens when white people throw cinco de mayo parties but a pinata used by white people is not inherently racist imo. if they wear sombreros and fake mustaches while swatting at the pinata, it's a different story though

thinking a pinata at a party is inherently racist is kind of getting us to a point where cultural exchange should be shut down entirely

is it racist if i drink tequila?

only if you do it at a Mexican restaurant

I bought some fireworks, is that racist?

fireworks originated in china, you asshole. unless you're chinese you better shelve those

brb building a pinata filled with fireworks.

we're going to hang it and hit it with lit torches, it will be epic.

please don't use the word "epic" unless you are Ancient Greek and blind

otm

brb building a pinata filled with fireworks.

― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, June 6, 2014 8:58 AM (3 hours ago)

ha, i took these at a friend's rehearsal dinner:

http://i.imgur.com/TJ8QK0a.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/CF42WnB.jpg

a hate crime, imo

The main reason I asked was that I kind of felt where my friend was coming from w/r/t the pinata breaking being part of a cinco de mayo party called "Cinco de Mayhem" that was attended almost 100% by non-Mexican white people. I was just conflicted because I have such fond feelings about my family's Christmas pinata, but I thought I might have, like, a racial blind spot the way Dutch people do about Sinterklaas' 6 to 8 black assistants

your family's pinatas have 6 to 8 black assistants?

american "let's wear sombreros & get fucked on tequila" cinquo de mayo appropriation is much more questionable, imo

okay, sorry for xpost. where is undo.

http://i.imgur.com/l2DSLMt.gif

w/r/t the pinata breaking being part of a cinco de mayo party called "Cinco de Mayhem" that was attended almost 100% by non-Mexican white people.

See, the piñata is the part not being racist here.

i'm sure our Irish readers have similar feelings about the appropriation of St Patrick's day

"What do I want to drink? How 'bout one of those Decapitated Cartel Agents, you know, a little rum and tequila mixed together with grenadine.

What's that? It's St. Patrick's Day, not Cinco de Mayo? Oh yeah, well, how about an Irish Car Bomb then."

otm

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/music/downtown-sound-omar-souleyman

Though a firm favourite of more leftfield festivals and audiences, Omar Souleyman (not to be confused with Detroit legend Omar S) is really as accessible as hummus. The Syrian singer never fails to galvanise a crowd, channelling Middle Eastern music through a techno-informed prism, and is helped out as always by his master keyboardist Rizan Said by his side.

Omar Souleyman: smooth, creamy, available in 8 and 16 ounce containers in your grocer's produce section

what ppl do on paddy's day is nothing to me as an irishman

http://thatsthejoke.net/thatsthejoke.jpg

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/3174503/chickens.gif

suggest ban nation

micks I can waive

*applause*

it's a type of it, yeah. but is it racist

i'm hispanic and i'm not crazy about speedy gonzales, primarily b/c it because it was used by white kids i grew up with as nicknames/slurs for hispanic people

― marcos, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:36 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

many xp. i cant wait to explain to my daughter who speedy etc. also airport dude at ORD brought out a mexican joke for no reason yesterday.

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