I gotta strange feeling that.....

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I thought porch monkey was offensive not lawn jockey?

Black. I've never seen a white one.

Halloween in NYC is a little different. We had our big parties this past weekend. Many people go to gigs via public transportation. Like Saturday night when I was in the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, I saw 3 Captain Jack Sparrows, a few zombies, a bunch of sexy costumed babes, Dracula, Frankenstein, some character from Lord of the Rings, and bunch of other crazy costumed people. Nobody would be fool enough to be in public in a Klan costume or any kind of blackface.

Today is the big parade in the Village. In all my years of checking it out I never saw a racist costume. You get things like The RunDMC Rabbi, or The Giant Walking Condom, and a ton of people in drag. The parade brings out more creative costumes.

I just had a great idea for a halloween costume - a zombie JFK and his wife with (pillbox hat) and brains all over here! Some of the kids might not get it, but old folks passing out candy would love that shit!

In NY when I was young, any lawn jockey I saw I spraypainted white. And they do have white ones. They are usually standing straight and have a jockey uniform on.

"Guys, guys! There's been a misunderstanding!

"I'm AL JOLSON!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe

I favor savage beatings for people like that...

wait...was that racist?

A black kid just came to my door in white face. Or maybe he was a clown -- is a big red nose part of a racist get-up these days?

Maybe he was dressed as W.C. Fields?

Our history over here leaves no chance of blackface being acceptable IMO. Don't get me started on lawn jockeys.

how about if Mewa dressed up as, say, Laci Peterson?

why

I'll bite...
Why only Othello and not Mr. T?

Or Christopher Newsom.

Like the Trayvon costume, I think it would be in poor taste. But, I believe that people often choose to be offended. I choose not to be. Life is to short to be angry all the time.

I choose not to be as well, but that doesn't mean that I can't understand why someone might reasonably be offended by certain stuff.

I never said otherwise.

You seemed to think Mewa was being irrational for choosing to be offended.

Mewa likes making his little racist comments too. Oh wait...they are jokes when he does it but not when others do it.

What the hell are you talking about?

"White people"

explain how that's "racist"?

I mean, I don't really see it as applying to myself or a lot of people, even if I am kinda off white myself. It's not like I "qualify" as anything but.

I always take him to be meaning "Dumbassed ignorant fucks from privileged backgrounds shooting their mouths off who happen to be white with no sense of how easy they have it in comparison to others".

Would you give the same benefit of the doubt to someone replying "black people"

No matter how you reply to that, I'm betting the vast majority would see that as pure racism.

That's what pisses off a lot of people, the huge double standard.

I dunno. Are those black folks making jokes out of racially motivated crimes or defending the perpetrators of human suffering when someone resignedly shakes his head and says "Black People"?

I said no such thing. My issue is that Mewa was using a strawman the size of Australia to try to prove his point. Again, comparing someone's grandparents to someone he'd never met, was never going to meet, and knew no one who would ever meet either of them.

Speaking of people looking for reasons to be offended.

I know. That's why I said that you SEEMED to THINK it.

Okay, but you knew what he meant didn't you?

That's why I phrased my post as a question. I wanted to be sure before I commented further because if he really was comparing the two, he deserved to be called to task for it. He clarified his statement and as far as I'm concerned, the issue is resolved. You seem to think it's not, though.

I'm good. You're the one that keeps telling me that you never said something that I never said you said.

http://newsone.com/2748798/white-teen-blackface-twitter/.UnLwcU2xGi0.facebook


One of the White teens who posted a picture dressed in blackface because she’s a “n***er” for Halloween, responded to criticism by saying that Black people need to stop worrying about her costume and start worrying about finding their fathers.