rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

I don't think that dialect is necessarily black and I'm kind of wondering if that was the real context McWhorter's quote was in!

yeah that's why I posted it here. personally I don't think this is anything but most of the posters on this board are a little more sensitive than I am on those issues

But yeah, it is not anything. More of a journalistic accuracy in quoting debate than anything.

Despite the outcry, organizers said the sale would go forward unless they were threatened with physical violence. Mr. Lewis said Republican groups from nearby colleges — including the University of California, Davis; California State University, Sacramento; and Saint Mary’s College of California — had called to say they were sending carloads of supporters to the bake sale.

oh my god...they're multiplying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5peC9wFu64w

http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/joelherrick/obama%20fried%20chicken.jpg

I would guess there's a 1% chance your average chinese person knows about the stereotype

I would guess there's a 1% chance your average chinese person knows about the stereotype

Is this racist?

yep

isn't China the place where they made & sold Darkie Toothpaste until about a decade ago?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ebKDFxiia8/TPfyKmogVdI/AAAAAAAAIn4/UQnLLwPdwHU/s1600/darlie.jpg

actually, it was Taiwan.

same difference

WTF why is Barack Obama making Asian stereotype face? I mean with the squinty eyes and mongoloid expression.

Also that changed toothpaste is still offensive to me, it reminds me of when white people could barely deal with Lena Horne.

Was watching this great video of Quincy and Herbie fooling around with a Fairlight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6QsusDS_8A

But then was o_O at the question at 5:20. Is this racist?

Actually, it's 5:05 or so. Don't skip ahead! Great video!

That was an awesome video.

The question itself could have been phrased better, especially since it almost sounded like a contrast was being made between "sophisticated" and "African". It certainly doesn't seem like that was the intent and Herbie gave a great response to it nonetheless.

http://i.imgur.com/RrIk7.png

was at a kid's bday party last week where there was facepainting, one little (white) boy insisted that he wanted to be facepainted as a "ninja" so the facepainter tried to oblige by painting his entire face black. you can imagine what the end result looked like. the parent was sort of mortified/afraid to walk home without washing it off. kid was completely oblivious (obviously).

the facepainter could have just given him a TMNT mask

‎"After Obama shook hands and chatted with a young African American boy who looked to be about 10, and then moved on, the boy turned to the white man he was dining with and said, 'I’m never going to wash my hand again.' "

From:
Obama L.A. visit: President makes unscheduled stop at Rosco's Chicken and Waffles
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/obama-roscoes-west-la.html

tbh I thought this was a better candidate for this thread:

ALSO:

Man in gorilla mask and carrying stun gun robs taco stand

But then was o_O at the question at 5:20. Is this racist?

― ste throkes (Ówen P.), Monday, 10 October 2011

herbie's response is used as the start of this (excellent) Aybee mix for lwe

http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/podcast/lwe-podcast-101-aybee/

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/notokay-avatar.png

Sorry, meant to post that to the blueface thread.

I don't care if you're black, white, purple, or blue.

New Black Keys video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a_426RiwST8#!

well, i mean just look at their name

no need to point out alicia's race

I'm going to go with "not racist" for that one. Do you feel that the man is somehow demeaned by the video?

I would dance to that song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhkpR1NoEmY

I'm going to go with "not racist" for that one. Do you feel that the man is somehow demeaned by the video?

― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, October 28, 2011 1:10 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think the Tim&Eric/BlackKeys aesthetic of "tap dance for us, peculiar black man" is p fucking suspect, which is why i ask, "Is this racist?"

pretty much everything painted in the Tim & Eric aesthetic is suspect, which is why the stuff that works is so amazing and the stuff that doesn't is so unbearable

"tap dance for us, peculiar black man"

there is no tap dancing in that Black Keys video. if anything, the guy is doing the dance that every white guy in 80s teen sex comedies used to do

y'know, the "running in place" thing. overbite optional.

hey shakey let me introduce you to the concept of figurative speech,

is "peculiar" figurative too cuz I don't see anything peculiar about that guy

he does appear to be actually black

the thing that strikes me is that they've got a video of a black man dancing vaguely like Carlton Banks as a video for a song called "Lonely Boy"; that definitely registers as "sketchy"

is whiney racist for finding that black man to be peculiar?

his dancing is peculiar, white or black

now I'm gonna feel weird every time I lol @ Carlton dancing

that sort of 'droll' 'deadpan' 'mnml' video aesthetic, if it is of a sort, is really terrible regardless of whether the incongrously terpsichorean figure-of-fun is white, purple or even black

I don't see what the Lonely Boy title has to do with it...?

kinda more inclined to agree with nakhchivan

you know white people used to demean and degrade black men by always referring to them as "boy", right

it is not nearly as bad as if the song had been called "Lonely Jungle Bunny" but it's near that territory

i think the Tim&Eric/BlackKeys aesthetic of "tap dance for us, peculiar black man" is p fucking suspect, which is why i ask, "Is this racist?"

― Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 28, 2011 1:50 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't know anything about their aesthetic. Do they do this often?

I'm totally seeing Dan's point about "boy" though.

"I was cast as an extra, and there were maybe six or seven other people who were supposedly going to be in the video. ... I was the first one to perform in the video. It was a motel shot where the guys from the Black Keys come and give me the keys to their motel room," he said. "The director just sort of noticed me dancing and asked me, 'Can you perform?' I said, 'I can dance, anybody can dance,' so I took some moves from everybody: John Travolta from 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction,' the Carlton Banks dance from 'The Fresh Prince' and a little bit of Michael Jackson, so it was a smorgasbord of everybody in there.

"It was just a spur-of-the-moment thing," Tuggle added. "My acting teacher Mark McPherson, he has us do this thing before we start class called 'Song and Dance,' where he'll have us sing one of our favorite songs, and then while we're singing it, he'll have us do a crazy dance, or a sexy dance, and I guess it spawned from that."

I agree that this video is "suspect" but at the same time I also assume the "boy" thing is an unfortunate oversight rather than an intentional thing. a lot of young white folx don't know that connotation of "boy."