Dear God!

[Carlton]

WoW! JUST WoW

The caption refers to stupid people, nothing else. those that see racism in the comment have a way too big chip on thier shoulder. these "they live among us" posters have been going around for as long as the de-motivational posters, and they depict white, black, red, yellow, animals, landmarks just about anything, they live among us refers to stupid people nothing else nothing more.

People are too quick to find racism these days in things that arent there, I understand racism still exists in all colours including white skinned people, However in this case, it does not exist.

" If you look hard enough you will find fault in anything" - Anon

 

[JoeCool10]

WoW! JUST WoW

The caption refers to stupid people, nothing else. those that see racism in the comment have a way too big chip on thier shoulder. these "they live among us" posters have been going around for as long as the de-motivational posters, and they depict white, black, red, yellow, animals, landmarks just about anything, they live among us refers to stupid people nothing else nothing more.

People are too quick to find racism these days in things that arent there, I understand racism still exists in all colours including white skinned people, However in this case, it does not exist.

" If you look hard enough you will find fault in anything" - Anon

:smiley31:

Thank you.

 

[Carlton]

Are you being limb-ist against my large hands with that smilie?

 

[JoeCool10]

Are you being limb-ist against my large hands with that smilie?

I didn't know you had big hands... :ninja









:ninja

 

[AstriaPorta]

I didn't find it funny :ninja

 

[Carlton]

some do, some dont.. fact remains, its not even the slightest bit racist. I chuckled when I first saw it.. cant believe something so simple is misconstrued

 

[purpledove]

" If you look hard enough you will find fault in anything" - Anon

:homo: What we do with the fault we find in others, How we react becomes our responsibility

 

[JanieDough]

I must say I have since removed it from my Facebook as well. Some one commented (sorry if this offends) 'haha fucking niggers.' I know this person very well and 100% know it was a bad joke but still I'm sure there are people out there that look at it that way which was my reason behind taking it down. Whilst I look at it and laugh at the stupidity of people (from all races), there are people who look at it and laugh at 'stupid black people.' or people who may now think I'm laughing at black people when I'm not.

:homo: That's all I was saying

 

[anodomi]

All I have to say is "Kee$ha"

:joke:

 

[retro]

Question.

If it had a picture of a white girl on it, would it still be racist? If not, then this picture/joke wasn't racist in the least bit.

 

[JanieDough]

Question.

If it had a picture of a white girl on it, would it still be racist? If not, then this picture/joke wasn't racist in the least bit.

That's not true at all.

If you had a poster that said "Damn Niggers" with a picture of a white chick, you could say it wasn't racist, but clearly saying Damn Niggers is...

 

[Springsteen]

The lack of grammar in the picture disturbs me greatly.

I don't see it as racist, it's just a picture meant to be used for comedic effect.

 

[retro]

That's not true at all.

If you had a poster that said "Damn Niggers" with a picture of a white chick, you could say it wasn't racist, but clearly saying Damn Niggers is...

Yay for apples and oranges! There was nothing racist about the text of the article, therefore the picture cannot be racist. If there was something racist in the text, the picture would be irrelevant.

 

[retro]

What I'm getting from Janie is this...

Not Racist



Still Not Racist



Racist





Does that about sum up your opinion Janie?

 

[Carlton]

spot on......... :thumbup

 

[Tim]

I found this explanation that puts it very well.

Consider the language of the Ledasha tale. Google counts 100,000 results for the punchline "dash don't be silent." (For the linguistically inclined, that's the "habitual be," a distinctive syntactic feature of African American Vernacular English.) You'll also find thousands of similar hits for "dash ain't silent." But when you search for the Standard English version "dash isn't silent" you mostly find explanations in the storyteller's voice, not quotes from Ledasha's mother. The mother's vernacular is intrinsic to the story.

For some perspective on this, let's take a trip back in time. Urban legend resource Snopes.com, in their excellent review of name tales, unearthed a relevant item from a 1917 book of humor. Please excuse the period vocabulary:

A young woman in Central Park overheard an old negress call to a pickaninny: "Come heah, Exy, Exy!"

"Excuse me, but that's a queer name for a baby, aunty?"

"Dat ain't her full name," explained the old woman with pride; "dat's jes' de pet name I calls for short. Dat child got a mighty grand name. Her ma picked it out in a medicine book — yessum, de child's full name is Eczema."

The blithe racism makes us cringe today, but every element of this joke is echoed in modern name tales. The proud, earnest ignorance, the desire to aggrandize, and the vernacular speech are all familiar. Even the misreading of medical jargon remains a popular touch; just swap out eczema for an STD to give it a more contemporary punch.

The big difference between the Eczema tale and today's is that the 1917 teller had no qualms about identifying the child's race as the central point. The many widely circulated versions of Ledasha, laden with racial signals as they may be, never come out and say it. Tellers rely on implicit cues so that the story, on the surface, is just about a funny name. As is so often the case, what we tiptoe around is as revealing as what we say. The minute you inject adjectives like "black" and "poor" into a story, the ground shifts. You've lost your protective coating of mere humor; you're talking about society. That can be dangerous ground. A funny name tale is a safer way to poke fun, with plausible deniability. Indeed, some tellers may pass on the stories without a thought about their cultural underpinnings. Yet the real issues are still there just below the surface. You can tell, because in settings where people are not afraid to talk about race and class, the same stories still flower with full, explicit cultural context.

source

 

[Dana]

Ya I got bored reading that. there is way too much debate and insult slinging over a lame joke.

 

[Carlton]

As I said, dig deep enough and you will find anything offensive, your post has no bearing. Humour on stupidity is funny. or are we in a civilisation where we cannot laugh or joke about anything for fear of insulting someone.

if thats the case, please remove all posts from this forum, as I could easily "dig deep enough" to find something insulting.

"vive la difference, embrace humour, embrace differences, and take the fucking chip off your shoulder.." - anon (black, white, green... it doesnt matter)

 

[skyblue]

pathetic spelling of whats in effect a nice name.....race has no bearing at all,its pathetic whatever

 

[Carlton]

thankyou sky dash blue (no offence intended to smurfs)