rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

hahaha

yeah specifically i was expecting THAT to be the punchline

major lol @ that pic caption

earnestpost tho: I never knew

i'm wondering what perspective j3ss h4rvell can bring to this as a female music writer.

i used to think "well who am i to debate indie rock with the leader of the silver jews?" but then I learned the ugly truth: that was David Berman, not Stuart.

omg that article

i'm wondering what perspective j3ss h4rvell can bring to this as a female music writer.

We just need Dominique Leone to moderate the resultant debate.

she's french, right? that should make it interesting.

i think the woman in the pic at the start of the article is who the author THOUGHT sfj was

INCEPTION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l71gaZnYgOU

the image is author alice randall. dunno how they picked it -- maybe they just google image searched for 'black lady'? would love that search history.

also someone should email her and let her know. i'm sure she would be extremely flattered.

We just need Dominique Leone to moderate the resultant debate.

can she summon up the glorious musical heritage of creole new orleans y/n

There ain't none Cajunier

The Princess and the Frog was about her and Michel Foucault.

GIS search for "sasha frere jones" reveals black woman as image #6 (beyonce), white women at 11 and 13 (fiona and lana del rey) WHAT IS HE HIDING

HIS JUNK

you're thinking of shouts and murmurs i think

http://ichlugebullets.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/sasha-fierce1.jpg%3Fw%3D268%26h%3D300

“You could argue that Dr. Dre and Snoop were the most important pop musicians since Bob Dylan and the Beatles,” Frere-Jones once wrote. You could argue that—if Bob Dylan had been a pop musician to begin with, or if Dr. Dre had released more than a single groundbreaking album during his entire career.

Sasha Frere-Jones' penis is a white man's penis.

You could argue that Jake Delhomme was the most important quarterback since Johnny Unitas.

can't believe chronic 2001 was slighted like that

wait till this guy gets the kendrick album we'll show him

early in my mid-90s trance days, I assumed that

http://www.julieb.net/images/Music/DJ%20Sasha%20large.jpg

might have looked something like

http://djsolano.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/dj_rebecca_saforia.png

i used to think baseball player michael bourn was white because of matt damon

I don't know how to break this to everybody, but Eli manning is a white man

I'm flabbergasted by this article tbh

can't wait for the guy writing about how stunned he is that Ira Glass is a Jew

In related news, Kelsey Grammer is also a white man.

Madeleine Albright isn't British

i am not even sure if this is racist (first time i have ever said that on this thread) as much as dumb as balls.

poor balls

Sasha Frere-Jones' penis is erect because he's blind.

holy shit lol

tbh I always default to thinking of Sasha as a guy's name, and I always pictured SFJ as a kind of Safran-Foer dude, which as it turns out was kind of in the right ballpark... black woman!? wtf. That has to have been a trolly article having a dig at his writing, right?

Many Americans first exposure to the name Sasha was through Supermodel of the World, which may be where all the confusion stems from.

Granted, most Americans don't read Russian literature and therefore don't know it's a unisex diminutive for Alexander/Alexandra (or Natasha, if your name is Sasha Obama).

When I was growing up I only knew two Sashas: one was a boy at my school and the other was my friend's cat. My default is to think cat before male or female.

I would probably be more forgiving towards SFJ's writing if he was a cat, that would be adorable.

Would pay hard cash to see an all-white funk band fronted by a cat

Just as long as it wasn't frigging Jameowquai

how would you know the cat was white?

Granted, most Americans don't read Russian literature and therefore don't know it's a unisex diminutive for Alexander/Alexandra (or Natasha, if your name is Sasha Obama).

― ella fingerblast hurls forever (suzy), Thursday, October 25, 2012 8:17 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's true, although i think in russian it's more commonly a boy's name? i think it's a great name for a dude.

Male and female Sashas in my college class; guys' names pronounced Sash-a (as in window), women's names pronounced Saaaah-sha.

why were they screaming, were you throwing them out of windows?

sash-a sounds more like a britishism than anything

a friend just gave his car a 'typical black female name', i don't know what to think of it.