Blackface: WTF?

[wyeaster]

i had close relatives who regularly called me nigger lips and nigger nose in the late 70s early 80s in hippieville eugene

[Game Over]

^yea I got that also growing up here in the EUG. Hell it lasted into the 90’s. My nickname was Afro in middle school.

Who was your wrestling coach in HS? I just saw Roach died. That guy was a legend. I assume your coach also was. That wrestling team was always good during that era up and thru when I was there..

[jono]

I dunno... I think educating youth on the negative aspects of blackface is along the same lines of teaching them to be polite such as you don't point and stare, you don't ask a person about birthmarks/defects or mention a woman's mustache. In other words you teach children to be respectful and sensitive/empathetic towards others. <shrug>

That's quite true, assuming the kids are white. So more parental than classroom, which, see vax: there will be variation. So the same message would be poison to black kids who will eventually encounter insensitive morons and are better served by understanding that as insensitivity than assuming malice.

I think we're both making the same actual point, though: there are 2 kinds of things that can be taught, one is the lesson not to treat people like crap (and the vast majority of black face serves as an example, even if not as exclusively as the current narrative claims, see Ted Danson). The other is to focus on the symbols, which are just a symptom but make low hanging fruit.

[goldengatestinx]

^^^^ Did you used burnt cork on your face?

Frankly, I don't get it. It seems to me that people impersonating people of color do it as a homage to blacks.
Dress up as OJ the athlete; dress up as Cassius Clay; Dress up as Gayle Sayers; dress up as MLK; dress up as Mr. Bojangles; dress up as Flav a Flav

I just don't get it

People are excessively into victimhood these days that they appropriate a victim mentality from things that don't even pertain to themselves. If the dumb things were simply ignored and the complainers paid attention to and fixed their own crap, things would be much improved.

[mcski]

Kinda like privileged white guys complaining about...pretty much everything. Total vics

[spanghew]

Maybe you missed it—there was a very short-lived thread about the concept or existence of White Privilege. Surprisingly, an all-white jury deliberated only a very shirt time before dismissing the concept as spurious.


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[goldengatestinx]

Kinda like privileged white guys complaining about...pretty much everything. Total vics

^^^ Exactly, US House of Representatives who still won't accept the results of the 2016 election which Clinton lost.

[goldengatestinx]

The University of Georgia may expel a teaching assistant and graduate student who went viral last January after saying that “some white people might have to die” in order to achieve racial justice, among other racially charged statements, for allegedly omitting his arrest record from his admissions application.

A teaching assistant at the University of Georgia (UGA), Irami Osei-Frimpong — who is also a graduate student — is facing expulsion over allegations that he had purposefully omitted a 2011 trespassing arrest from his admissions application, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The graduate student believes that the allegations over his admissions application are actually a veiled attempt to remove him from the university for his racially charged statements that were exposed to the public last January, adds the report.

Osei-Frimpong fell under scrutiny after a video surfaced of a UGA student confronting the teaching assistant over his anti-white social media posts. Osei-Frimpong, who also suggested that violence should not be ruled out in the pursuit of racial justice, reacted to the backlash he received by doubling down on his statements regarding race and violence.

UGA had initially responded to the controversy with a statement saying that the school “condemns the advocacy or suggestion of violence in any form,” adding that “racism has no place” on campus, and that the school has been “vigorously exploring all legal options.”

In April, Osei-Frimpong defended himself at a packed hearing against allegations that he had violated the student code of conduct, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, adding that the graduate student had waived his federal privacy rights, which allowed for public access to the hearing.

The report had also noted that Osei-Frimpong was accused of omitting information on his UGA graduate school application by neglecting to disclose that he had previously studied at the University of Chicago and that he had been previously arrested.

The university had reportedly received an anonymous call that Osei-Frimpong omitted mentioning that he was arrested in 2011 for his participation in an Occupy Wall Street protest while attending school at the University of Chicago, where he had been studying political science.

Osei-Frimpong argues that he answered the question on his graduate application correctly, because the judge had ended up dismissing the charges against him.

“I don’t know about this conspiracy I’m hiding my arrest,” said Osei-Frimpong during the hearing, “I live a public life.”

Osei-Frimpong does indeed live a public life, having just tweeted on Sunday: “I’m targeted because I think the problem with Black America is how we make White people. If we want justice for Black Americans, we have to dismantle and replace the engines of White cultural production: their schools, churches, and families,” said the graduate student.

“I study philosophy because I think that White schools, churches, and families in America are internally incoherent and provide the resources for their own de-legitimacy,” continued Osei-Frimpong in an additional tweet, “I study politics and psychology because de-legitimacy isn’t enough.”

We are going to need state guns,” said the graduate student.

Osei-Frimpong went on to claim that racial justice has only been advanced after “threatening White people with guns and budgets,” and that schools re-segregated “when we stopped threatening them.”

“Know that you are dealing with folks who have been trained to be sociopaths,” added Osei-Frimpong, “So be prepared to take control of guns and budgets.”

[The AD]

^ What the fuck does this have to do with the subject of this thread? Get your dumb cut and paste shit out of here.