I'm kinda pissed that watermelon and fried chicken are now not just associated with all southerners. Those are some pretty good items we are losing credit for.
I got this zinger in an email from my dad today: Riddle for the Day Hillary, Biden and Obama were on a donkey, at the edge of a cliff. The donkey got spooked and jumped off the cliff. Who was saved? AMERICA stay classy, religious right!
Yeah they are. Strawberry drank Urange drank which is Orange purple drank chicken chicken wings hamhawks greens watermelon ribs cadillacs Kool-Aid Whoopy Goldberg Pop-eyes KFC Any chicken place MD20/20 Cognac cornbread cornrolls buscuits are all associated with black people. You'll see people use this to stereotype black people. I could go on but i'm not a racist. I just work with a lot of racist people.
Mad Dog 20/20, which is beyond nasty. Even as a freshman in college, MD 20/20 was a drink of last resort. It makes Boone's Strawberry Hill taste like Dom Perignon.
I could buy it wasn't intended to be racist Kool-Aid and watermelon as I really didn't get the racist implication there, but the fried chicken is obviously intended to play on his race, although I'm not sure it's meant as an insult. Is it insulting to say he eats fried chicken?
And JayZ. She didn't make the illustration; she just got it in a chain email, though it was funny and unwisely thought to include it in a party newsletter. That his face on a foodstamp has racial overtones she must have known (at least to some vague cognitive extent), but she may have missed the import of the food items there which really add a lot to the offensiveness of the image.
I now see why people thought MoBalls was overreacting in that racism thread in the Hangout. If you don't see how ridiculously racist this is, you surely can not see subtle racism.
I don't believe any white person that says they don't realize eating fried chicken is a racial stereotype attributed to black people. That said, I doubt she had any racist intent, as in I don't think she meant to reprint the image to denigrate African-Americans or to be cruel, I think she saw it, thought it was funny, and reprinted it.
Is it that funny? Knowing how offensive it is doesn't taken any of that humor away? No one thinks she's trying to bring down African Americans, its just sad that someone would see how offensive it is and reprint it anyway. The lack of care. That's racist.
OK, I had assumed she made the picture in question and it looks like I am wrong about that. She may or may not have missed the negative connotations but I guess that is for everybody to decide for themselves.
I don't see it as funny at all actually. I think it's stupid. I just was trying to point out that I don't her intentions were racially motivated as much as they were "humor to make a political point" motivated.
I think that does change things a bit - my point was more in regards to authorship. On somewhat of a related tangent, I hate these kind of chain emails. You typically see them from older people who are either clueless to how the internet works (using snopes for example) or see no problem with hidden or in some cases direct and obvious racism. p*rn email chains on the other hand...those were the days when you could get them and work and have no issues!
Hate it when you call out a vile woman's bull**** and then she feigns innocence and stupidity and gets away with it. Feminists should get them to own up for their words.
The country and world would be a better place if everyone could laugh at this. That being said, it is racist, but I'm not going lie, I love all four and would love to get some of those bucks handed out to me.
