rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

That song title

o_O

I just saw lady bugs. I thought the deal was "LADY" bugs named Henry...like no man bugs, ever? I was actually at the kitchen sink this evening, washing dishes trying to figure out what the deal was and so had to return here and there it is....

That song title

o_O

― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, May 13, 2014 4:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think it's a little beyond o_O

I won't belabor the point (too late), but this is what I thought I saw at first.

http://i.imgur.com/FkBePHKl.gif

i don't understand why that NPR article is circulating like grumpy cat in 2014 when there was literally a top 10 song with that melody on the billboard singles chart 8 years ago

It's almost like a hip-hop song isn't sufficient enough grounds to talk about something, but it is when the predominately white NPR gives it some shine, hmmmmm

lol I thought about "Chain Hang Low" too

social justice clickbait didn't really exist in 2006 the way it does in 2014 tho

cf justin bieber having more twitter followers than kurt cobain ever did

is theodore r johnson 'predominantly' really white whiney? how many eighths are we talking?

That song title

o_O

― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, May 13, 2014 4:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think it's a little beyond o_O

I listened to it yesterday and feel kind of terrible that it's been stuck in my head off and on today

is theodore r johnson 'predominantly' really white whiney? how many eighths are we talking?

― balls, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 5:01 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's why i called out the source, not the author

And not even the source because, NPR is totally great for running it!

I'm mainly confused why everyone is picking up on it and reblogging it when there was a legitimate cultural artifact that people were making the exact same points about eight years ago

8 years ago is a longtime on the internet whieny

because no one was that emotionally invested in it then and people have a pop culture memory of less than eight years?

probably the people invested in it then and npr listeners aren't that overlapping, either

it's almost like hip-hop hasn't really been relevant in the larger culture for nearly a decade now

or that the means thru which ppl share stuff on the internet are different than they were eight years ago

I mean, Gawker existed in 2006, where was their reblog of this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/arts/music/17play.html

THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS OUT OF ORDER

iirc they were busy posting updates of which celebrities people had seen on the streets of nyc that day

it's almost like that times article deals w/ the issue as an aside in a brief blurb while the npr thing uses it to demonstrate how if you scratch beneath the surface of even the most anodyne thing in america you will find virulent racism lurking in its history

where was whiney when spin magazine was posting aids denialist literature

c'mon man you can't tell me you didn't know about that

hey how come ppl are linking to that thing from 2006 when lil' mont used it in 1997. seems kinda suspect someone would link to the predominantly white ny times and ignore an icon most americans are aware of like lil' mont.

I should really remove my bookmark from this thread and yet

your time might be better spent sleeping

DJP, if you remove your bookmark from this thread, how are you going to know if something's racist or not?

Whiney on a "Why wasn't anybody calling for Donald Sterling's ouster 15 years ago?" tip

http://www.multivu.com/mnr/64790-post-foods-fruity-cocoa-pebbles-competition-wwe-john-cena-nba-kyrie-irving

"team fruity"

I have been cracking up at those ads since I first encountered them

huge fan of breakfast cereal endorsements from athletes (esp of kyrie irving's prominence so to speak) wherein they're wearing ultrageneric jerseys/hats/etc., takes me back to my youth.

http://keymancollectibles.com/baseballcards/images/1990po4.jpg

hahaha that card would be even better if it was like
NOLAN RYAN
dallas-based baseball squadron ballthrower

he looks like he's modeling for sears

omg I remember those cards!

http://www2.cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/files/2012/07/Pete-Rose-Gold-Star1.jpg

Haha these dont even have the mascot. Bet the pantone is only off a digit.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aZia0MTLSJw/UDxdtE8xS_I/AAAAAAAAKx4/A5zY1QVVSDk/s1600/2012+Panini+Triple+Play+Clayton+Kershaw+sticker.jpg

all-white hardcore band the big boys:
http://glorifytheturd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bigboysfront.jpg

Yeah, between them, The Black Athletes, and the Drunk Injuns, Skate Rock Vol. 1 doesn't look so innocent anymore.

That looks like something that was put out by Taang! Records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mh2RctlGxc

what does she say in that line about the bodegas and lips? i can't make it out exactly but i'd be surprised if it wasn't offensive

yuck

i hate everything about this song

Esso like debuted at no. 38 on Billboard. Which, I know it takes like very few copies to do, but that doesn't happen to, like, Thee Oh Sees or Grimes or w/e

Where are people even hearing this garbage?

idk, i'd imagine there's a big promotional push by some third party with major label affiliations but i don't know whom.

Stereogum premiered their video: 1 comment, 37 tweets

being in one of these bands doesn't seem like fun at all

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dh5lZmvXybg/Tc1uevkeFYI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Q7S7JNdFPP8/s640/Lawn+Jockey.gif

I see white lawn jockey ornaments and think, yeah, I guess it's an improvement over the black lawn jockey ornaments, but it still rubs me the wrong way. What's the idea or concept being conveyed? "Remember back in olden days when you'd have men in uniform stand around holding the horses? They were usually blacks forced into servitude, but here's an effigy offered in white."

Maybe I'm off. Maybe it goes back to Scottish times when white people held their horses. Maybe not though.

I think they mostly exist so that old white people can say "Remember when those things used to be black? Can't get away with that anymore ho ho"

I have an honest ITR: a friend of mine believes that any celebration involving the breaking of a piñata is inherently racist, unless it is a celebration entirely by and for Mexican people. This had never occurred to me before, but I'd be perfectly happy to accept that it is correct. Do you agree with my friend or not?

My huge almost-entirely-white extended family has included a piñata at our family reunion / Christmas celebration every year for decades in a manner that had previously seemed to me to be free of its historical cultural context (the piñata is not a traditional or stereotypical shape or color, there is no obvious element of "Mexican blackface" surrounding the breaking of it: no costumes, no broken spanish is spoken, etc).

What prompted this specifically was this event , which I'd thought it might be fun to go to, before my friend objected.