rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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^^ Accschent adopting raschist

I've been known to slip into a Southern tinged accent if I'm down in Texas long enough, but I'm really hyper aware of it and also its not racist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnd7NovxFsg

i saw this old SNL skit about Roots where US Senator Al Franken was wearing darkening makeup to play a slave O_O

<3 u whiney never change

The episode of Sarah Silverman's show where she did blackface was one of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen

racist

the only time I do this is when I'm talking with people from the U.P., having lived in Wisconsin nearly all my life I have this kind of "latent" accent somewhere that only comes out when everyone around me is speaking with it, it's totally involuntary

I have no choice but to alter my accent else (some of) these fuckers here in London won't understand me

i've had about four different accents growing up and can lapse into any of them very easily if speaking to someone from any of those areas

I could see where you could lapse into different modes of speech with different ppl, tho, that's not hard to do?

yeah i'm a terrible accent parrot, sure i've told the story about my embarrassing pronunciation of "five pounds?" at the Giant's Causeway carpark

feev pinds?

s?

sounded like Martin McGuinness getting a bit bolshy, everybody else in the car fell about laughing. totally unconscious i swear.

Both my parents will develop strong West Indian accents when they're around people from the Caribbean. As my mother's a middle-class white lady in her sixties from Chingford, it can be a little incongruous.

tingford

I once saw a brief sketch on some UK TV programme in which two blacked up minstrels were listening to the radio, on which some rightwing politician was saying that minstrels had no place in Britain and that they should all be deported to Minstrel-land or wherever they came from. This made the minstrels sad, so they changed to another station on which Al Jolson or some such was singing "Mammy" or some such, which cheered them up.

Was this racist?

tom cruise's irish accent is racist imo

L. Ron O'Hubbard told him to do it

I once saw a brief sketch on some UK TV programme in which two blacked up minstrels were listening to the radio, on which some rightwing politician was saying that minstrels had no place in Britain and that they should all be deported to Minstrel-land or wherever they came from. This made the minstrels sad, so they changed to another station on which Al Jolson or some such was singing "Mammy" or some such, which cheered them up.

Was this racist?

― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:20 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Little Britain IIRC, so maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-zVlB4mvA

http://www.thesuperficial.com/halle-berry-my-baby-is-black-black-as-night-02-2011

if there's one person who I would expect to be totally tone-deaf to the phrase "black up", it's Butterfly

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:22 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

? i havent listened to the record that thoroughly but i thought this was an intentional statement abt performing 'roles' for an audience

I honestly don't think I could have been any more sarcastic in that post

you'll never know until you try

oh. idk what happened

lol went to bump the 'Texts From Bennett' thread RIP sandbox

anyway we've not done this yet have we? http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoHikes

102,646 followers

urban kids

if thats real its about a thousand times more depressing then the us soldiers pissing on the taliban guy video

No it's not

maybe he's not white ; )

http://www.outwardbound.org/index.cfm/do/obs.photo_search_result/activity/Urban%20Expeditions

wait, you mean, real as in the fact that organizations do organize hikes in urban areas or real as in there is a person tweeting things that kids say on these hikes

the latter duh

as a 'funny shit kids say' this is a great twitter feed - too bad about the name

dun dis da dat

as a 'funny shit kids say' this is a great twitter feed - too bad about the name

― bob loblaw people (dayo), Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:19 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"as a bit of old-fashioned slapstick fun 'long duk dong' is a great comedic performance - too bad about the name"

??

pretty thorough sonning tbf

reading thru a bunch of these, the kids, if real, all sound really funny and engaged with what's going on around them, and being held up for gentle mockery, mark twain accents and all, is really pissing me off.

Ghetto Hikes
Comedian

https://www.facebook.com/ghettohikes

ghikes

"Bring the first aids kit, Leon think he tore his rotisserie cuff."

and being held up for gentle mockery, mark twain accents and all, is really pissing me off.

― goole, Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:52 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, this is the problematic part

the only way this would be better is if there was a button that, when you clicked it, would play a clip of the author reading them

i dunno how 'gentle' it is tbh. i mean, i'm assuming this guy has some affection for these kids and his job.

i thought the name was the only problematic part, dayo?

I simply write down shit they say.

are you implying that the twitter is a parody?