rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

soledad o'brien is too busy acting like she just stepped off the amistad to steal anyone's bike IMO

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My favorite movie growing up was “In the Heat of the Night.”

In that moment, I had a change of consciousness. Why was I assuming that the kid who stole my bike was acting out of some terrible pain, as if he had been directly under the lash of Bull Connor? What if he has a car, a nice apartment, a hot girlfriend and good health?

What if he is just a selfish asshole?

What if the thief is is NOT BLACK?!? This fucking scumbag never even considers the possibility. What if he is not a he? Could be a Lebanese woman for all he really knows. Oh but no, it's gotta be a "black kid", probably one of those that "had been described". and any doubt about this is just a remnant of that pesky old "white guilt".

on some levels, i kind of admire this article because with the internet being what it is i'm getting sort of accustomed to almost everything i read being so profoundly stupid and poorly written, but even in that context this one really stands out

Admitting it's a "poor black neighborhood" and then assuming the reason your bike was stolen was because the neighborhood is black.

Dude, you picked the wrong word.

http://www.laurentiwines.com/labels/P05556.jpg

"THIS GIRL IS SERIOUS! Aromatic, smooth, vibrant and tasty. Think tangerine, apricot, wet stone, key lime, clove, and nectarine. Now stop thinking and start drinking.....'CAUSE KUNG FU GIRL KICKS ASS!"

wine marketing is the worst

lol

I'm still focused in on 'wet stone'

^ underrated flavor in the jelly bellies mixed set

the white guilt article expresses its excruciatingly myopic choadness w/ surprising neatness - 'the right to treat everyone the same'

xpost surprising for once comment boxers less racist and crazy than article

this didn't last very long, fyi

yeah the comnments are pretty O_o

yeah that article pretty much is the *heart* of racism - one guy of a certain race (apparently) did something bad to me, so I'm going to look at that entire race differently, as though it's not okay to just hate a *person*

I like Pareene's joke:

"Wise up, White Americans. Your liberal parents lied to you when they said “this country’s centuries-old tradition of state-sponsored discrimination and institutional racism means a black person would never steal your bike, so just park that shit wherever.” "

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/09/daily_caller_genius_i_dont_feel_bad_for_black_people_anymore_because_i_think_a_black_person_stole_my_bike/singleton/?mobile.html

Topics:Daily Caller, Race, Bicycling, Crime, Media Criticism, Your Racist Uncle

true story: my brother's car was broken into and his stereo was stolen, so he went around the neighborhood to ask if anyone saw or heard anything. Our white neighbor told him he thought it might be the black kids that regularly walked down the street after school, and then he tried to sell my brother a hot car sterero he got from his cousin as a partial payment for weed.

my brother never said anything abt losing his white guilt that day iirc

I didn't lose my white guilt, I left it parked down the street and someone stole it.

Someone did steal my bike once. That is all I was able to figure out about that one. The cops laughed at me and the dude at the closest pawn shop gave me a rough look for even inquiring about what he might know re: stolen bikes.

Got my bike seat stolen; blamed white people because I have a quick-release seat thing and I parked it by the street when they were reprinting the front porch for a week and I live in Portland.

Repainting, rather.

you let white people paint your porch?

Their skills are usually better suited for picket fences.

when my bike got stolen, I had just replaced the seat and post which had been stolen a month before, thx to quick release technology. that time the bike shop dudes laughed at me.

Stolen bicycles must be pretty funny.

hate it or love it

GOOD FRIDAY
http://www.stfrancisloc.com/saint-francis.jpg
BIKE STOLEN
http://216.97.238.61/mcm/francis_pee_wee2.jpg

"Back in 1859, I was in a poor white neighborhood in Charleston, where I parked my negro while I went into a church. When I came back he had been stolen!"

^^ Is this racist?

um

I'm leaning hard toward 'yes'.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2aj2pi6Uz1qbzwwco1_500.jpg

No. That's just a fun hat.

rangers showed off their new japanese pitcher yu darvish yesterday, so of course we get

http://i.imgur.com/5uwsm.jpg

i like the dude in the red hat's what i like to think of as "the hell??" expression

That's seriously on some Sarah Silverman "I love ch***s" misguided appreciation schtick. Plus totally wrong nationality for the joke for extra ignorance.

Like these shitty shirts that people still wear to "appreciate" Kosuke Fukudome:

http://thebrownone.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/horry-kow.jpg

HAHA IT IS AN ASIAN HARRY CARAY GET IT

Looking forward to the racist white sox version now.

how come they just didn't write on the shirt "hari kari"? Cubs fans wouldn't get the joke despite the oversized glasses?

French presidential candidate shoots a video hanging out with black/arab kids in low-income neighborhoods, sets it to "niggas in paris"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT5z_OMaQhg

huh.

i wonder how the people in the video feel about it.

they feel fine because they hate sarkozy more than they care about taboo english words

I like the video actually

reaction's been pretty positive, seems like.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/04/diner-racism-waiters-diss-blacks/468546

comments section here is something to behold

whoa, apparently like every single person in the service industry is a racist :O

lol some of these can't be real

i was a a restaurant recently and a group of blacks was 3 booths away. They were loud, using a lot of profanity. I complained to the manager as I was with my wife and son adn my .357. Rather than saying anything to this pack of baboons he asked if we would be willing to move to another area. I told him directly that I thought he was a coward and we left without accepting our food.

self-perpetuating cycle of racism and resulting poor tipping flagbs

ugh i remember getting a meal with a black friend at a restaurant once and having a truly o_O exchange with our white waiter who eventually informed us (jovially) that "studies have shown" that "slavery wasn't really that bad." she made sure to tip him well because she assumed he would assume she wouldn't. the whole thing was insane and awful, and the worst part was i really think he thought he was being friendly and a li'l irreverent because we were all such pals the whole time.

The patron pointedly mentions owning a .357 because the patron did not do anything differently than the manager in choosing not to speak to the blacks, but owning the .357 innoculates him against being called a coward, too?