rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

i want to go teach english in the beautiful country of africa

bullseye

Jesus Christ. That's..... next level

The Pan-African dream lives!

http://covers.openlibrary.org/w/id/6824041-M.jpg

Shopping while black: http://nypost.com/2013/10/22/barneys-busted-student-for-being-black-suit/

Good on him for telling the store to shove their merchandise afterwards.

Why would he keep it?

another article on it: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/barneys-accused-stealing-black-teen-article-1.1493101

If the cashier claimed it was a fake credit card, the only conclusions I reach are that they're either hella incompetent or racist, or most likely both. I've seen fake credit cards w/ a legit card number on them, during the brief year I worked in retail - most of them that a 19-year old would use are very crude and easy to spot, especially on the back. And I'm fairly sure they see no shortage of Chase cards in that place, to know what they're supposed to look like. Plus, couldn't the cashier have run the same check that the cops did? Since Trayon was there, I'm fairly sure all he'd have had to do was give permission to verify the account.

dude's only crime is being a Juelz Santana fan, but nobody should go to jail for that! fuck Barneys.

also typically fake credit cards often can't be scanned, they often rely on the cashier having to enter the credit card number manually.

he'd keep it because it is a cool belt, right

hell no

he would return it and buy it from someplace that wouldn't profile him

I can't think of any black person I know who wouldn't return the belt, because all of them understand that stores operate off of profits and oftentimes commissions and none of them would want that clerk to get any type of compensation for being a racist

stores operate off of profits and oftentimes commissions

That's the part I don't get. The biggest racists in the world will happily take someone's money and stfu so they'll come back. Staff of Barney's must've been really bored, rich and racist that day.

Yeah, I didn't think that through. No reason for him to keep it and reward a company that profiled him.

IMO he should sue for whatever amount he's suing for plus an entire outfit of his choice

Stopping him a block away seems really abnormal. Walmart won't even come after you if you've made it out to the parking lot. (IF YOU'RE A THIEF IN THE FIRST PLACE.)

yeah, I was being ridiculous, fuck em

didnt a guy get killed by a walmart staffer chasing him into the parking lot?

I think that's why they won't chase you anymore.

surprised that they changed the policy tbh

"i mean....we stopped the shoplifter, didn't we?!"

Walmart acknowledging that the crap it sells worth much, much less than civil suits and bad publicity.

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/244010/28/Walmart-employees-fired-after-stopping-robbery

not the same incident, but you get the idea

[i was jk]

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7150380032/h4849CA54/

idgi

guy is going to sue wal-mart and be a zillionaire, duh

Huh. Incomes at the lower end so meagre now they have to decriminalise shoplifting to stop people dying in inconveniently large numbers

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adult-Golly-Fancy-Dress-Costume/dp/B00DM2O4K0/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

Hmm I wonder

there's a thread dedicated to talking about actually racist things fyi

but i'm not sure what else there is to do besides say 'yep, that's absolutely racist,' shake your damn head, and move on

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115437/halloween-2013-poll-racist-costumes

43% of Americans say Halloween blackface is just fine

fsdjsadjlkjla;l;as

I just want to know who these 21% of black people who are cool with blackface are, so I can slap them personally.

lmao at the political party breakdown

glad to see white people aren't feeling too inconvenienced by blackface, their signoff was of utmost importance

haha otm thank GOD white republicans have weighed in

should i tell my dad to stop saying "coon" to refer to raccoons y/n

nb i normally don't call him out on anything ever

That always amazes me when I hear Americans say it

Fictional Americans I mean

it's an actual thing that people say in a non-dogwhistle way! it's just jarring to hear

Just fucking pronounce the 1st syllable you lazy bastards, then you won't be using a racial slur! #protip

well then you have "coon-ass," which iirc refers to white creole types in Louisiana, right? I had a friend in college that wore a trucker hat that said "coon-ass" on it and I was mortified every time

when really they should just say this instead http://24.media.tumblr.com/d6b082611472398ac88d354ea750193f/tumblr_mtc1m85kli1s71q1zo1_1280.png

Just fucking pronounce the 1st syllable you lazy bastards, then you won't be using a racial slur! #protip

Sure, next thing you're going to want is for us to pronounce the 'O' in "opossum".

My dad won't stop talking about all the beaver he sees when he goes fishing.

lol

well then you have "coon-ass," which iirc refers to white creole types in Louisiana, right?

cajuns, yeah. there is apparently some debate as to whether or not cajuns find the term to be offensive but i've never met one of the aggrieved in person. when i first started dating the woman who is now my wife (who is not from louisiana and not hip to the lingo etc) i inadvertently horrified her by referring to someone (of whose race she was not aware) as a "coonass motherfucker."

Google Nick Saban Coonass and find this.

An African American coworker from Shreveport had a coon-ass cap or sign that he displayed prodly, so I don't think you have to be white to be one.