rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpNSip5gyKo

http://youtu.be/kxw4uZAezaI

Yep, this is pretty fuckin' racist:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/pittsburgh-basketball-game-marred-horrible-racist-banana-suited-131740578.html

o_O

Brentwood Director of Security Joseph Kozarian, who was on duty at the game, refused to intervene, instead sitting back and at one point smiling and laughing with the Brentwood fans in the stands.

This country absolutely horrifies me sometimes.

rolling "even frogbs knows this is racist" thread

― some dude, Monday, January 16, 2012 8:46 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ still say this should be its own thread

I'm sure frogbs could mount a defense

"they were probably friends with the black basketball players so it was okay"

wow. What the hell, Pittsburghundians?

Alternately, frogbs would probably launch into something about not understanding how monkeys are racist in the first place.

Local Pittsburgh columnist weighs in, points out that it wasn't just spectators doing racist shit:

Monessen's Chavas Rawlins was also intentionally shoved into wall and doors under the hoop while going in for a layup by Brentwood's Joe Pilarski.

The talented junior, who has a promising football career ahead of him, left the Monessen fans breathless as he held his knee in pain. He did return to the game a few minutes later.

It was a cheap shot and Pilarski, who appeared proud of his actions, should have been thrown out of the game. No questions asked.

The worst part of it, though, was Spartan's coach Dave Mislan, blaming the referees for the actions of his star player.

Didn't realise Nicky Wire went to highschool in Pittsburgh

Do we not have a "This Is Racist." thread?

kinder OTM

http://gothamist.com/2012/02/08/before_yesterday_knicks_jeremy_lin.php

http://i.imgur.com/A5Z0s.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaBSNop3g9M

so far people seem to like the nickname 'shao-lin'

go Harvard

did u mean to post this gr80

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/402033_10150583038119819_749574818_8713419_689217609_n.jpg

asian women, to be more precise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGeMy-6hnr0

what the fuck

"i know that you're not black and that this is racist?"

youtube links to the dude's facebook

it's kinda goin exactly where you might imagine with this

"Entertaining video, but personally I would've punched you in the face if you came up to me looking like that."

make sure you watch till the end when they each do their "black person" impersonation

woof, i'll pass thanks

I hate this country.

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

You know what, I'm not mad at this dude at all

Well okay, I'm a little mad at his opening salvo, but not nearly as mad as I am at all those BYU kids, particularly the black students.

i'm totally shocked at this reaction from a school where 98% of the student population actively practices a religion that actively had a "black people can't get into heaven" clause until 1978

I'm furious that black parents would send their kids into that environment with little to no knowledge of their own history, if for no other reason because all of those white kids are going to be turning to them to ask questions like "what do your people think of slavery" and "what was it like growing up on welfare"

god i feel guilty right now for wanting to say "incidentally, DJP, I've been meaning to ask you..."

hahaha

ugh someone recorded video of the banana suit incident. i feel sick. http://bit.ly/1Efd60

probably said it a million times on ilx but I always remember re: ignorant college students this guy who lived down the hall from me in the dorms who was talking to the one black guy on our floor and said, looking at his hand, "You know, you black people are funny. Your skin is darker, but your palms are really pink!"

big old dumb farmboy dude

stuff like that really makes me feel like parents who act all 'colorblind' and don't talk to their kids about race or racism before sending them out into the world are some of the biggest assholes

there are studies out there that back that assertion up

(I should really track down a primary link to the study)

Soon as I saw BYU in big letters, I knew I was in for a traet.

BYU ideas

talking to the one black guy on our floor and said, looking at his hand, "You know, you black people are funny. Your skin is darker, but your palms are really pink!"

Reminded me of :36

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uguq0u1ARUo

I work in an office of about 75 people, and we've got one black dude who works here. I always feel bad at him on the retreats because inevitably, assholes get drunk and want to play "Ask a Black Dude".

And hey, that's Darrell up there in the screen grab!

I could be selectively remembering, but I don't feel like I was that race conscious until sometime in the middle of elementary school. I went to a school that was mostly white but had a handful of black kids in each class, and, for reasons having to do with DC demographics, most of the teachers were black. When I had black friends in kindergarten or first grade I don't remember it occuring to me that blackness was a significant attribute. I certainly don't remember thinking it about teachers, since it was taken for granted. There was definitely some threshold in elementary school where suddenly it seemed like, "oh, those kids are black," but I can't pinpoint it. I'm sure media had an effect too -- until at least third or fourth grade I don't think I had any significant exposure to things like hip-hop, and the primary media representations of black people I had seen really were through stuff like sesame street and the cosby show.

There are a lot of things to be depressed about in that study—the parents’ resistance to talking to their children about race, the naivete of the colorblind crowd—but it was really encouraging to see these results:

And, for all six, their children dramatically improved their racial attitudes in a single week.

The thing that drives me nuts about liberal whites who subscribe to this idea of colorblindness is the willful ignorance of how colorblindness is used by modern racists to deflect criticism and to justify institutional racism and racist actions and beliefs.

I understand *wanting* to believe that children, left to their own devices will automatically develop positive attitudes around race, but there are all sorts of lessons you teach your children to help guide them into making right choices, because you know they will often make horrible choices and develop bad habits, and weird ideas that seemingly come out of nowhere. Why would you believe race would be any different?

Before like kindergarden, my only exposure to black people was the Little Rascals and I remember distinctly thinking that when they get chicken pox, it makes white spots instead of dark ones. :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKzn8aHyXg

I was in my late teens before I realized that watermelons don't really cause sickle-cell anemia.