Mild racism for a joke.

[SwimModSponges]

 

[André Toulon]

Wow, Wayne Brady and Aisha Tyler.....Both have literally tap danced for white people.  Can we get Al Roker and Raven Symone up there SO they can just start dropping Nbombs without feeling awful.

[Distinct Lunatic]

back when I was in high school there was this one black friend of mine named Donnell, and when it came to him he loved hearing racist jokes, him finding them funny.

that said though, I think he was dealing with depression back then, he'd have days where he'd be full on energy, but many days where he acts drained, physically and emotionally. there was one time he was talking about where things went wrong for him, saying "my first mistake was that I was born black, my second is that i was born from rape" it being a thing where before he was born his dad raped his mom and his sister. i feel for him, i think he ended up dropping out after sophomore year, i've seen his grades and he was getting all F's and one or two D's.

[André Toulon]

7 minutes ago, Dread Pirate Roberts said:

back when I was in high school there was this one black friend of mine named Donnell,

This is the most generic lie ever told on these boards.

[scoobdog]

31 minutes ago, Dread Pirate Roberts said:

back when I was in high school there was this one black friend of mine named Donnell, and when it came to him he loved hearing racist jokes, him finding them funny.

that said though, I think he was dealing with depression back then, he'd have days where he'd be full on energy, but many days where he acts drained, physically and emotionally. there was one time he was talking about where things went wrong for him, saying "my first mistake was that I was born black, my second is that i was born from rape" it being a thing where before he was born his dad raped his mom and his sister. i feel for him, i think he ended up dropping out after sophomore year, i've seen his grades and he was getting all F's and one or two D's.

Do you have a point?

 

[scoobdog]

46 minutes ago, André Toulon said:

Wow, Wayne Brady and Aisha Tyler.....Both have literally tap danced for white people.

Two nice, clean-cut black comedians....

But seriously Aisha Tyler is hot.

[SwimModSponges]

2 hours ago, André Toulon said:

Wow, Wayne Brady and Aisha Tyler.....Both have literally tap danced for white people.  Can we get Al Roker and Raven Symone up there SO they can just start dropping Nbombs without feeling awful.

That's the part I love about the outtakes form Who's Line;  everybody else just starts swearing and getting raunchy, and Wayne Brady's just back there like, "Oh gosh..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9izx5zlIvs

[Gina Szanboti]

The first person I ever heard throw out the "black people can't swim" trope was my uncle who was the very embodiment of the "your racist uncle" meme.  If you think Trump has no filter, you should've met this guy.  Apparently I couldn't hide the look on my face when he popped out with that, because he followed up with, "Oh yeah, they sink like a stone."  Aside from being astonished every time I'm reminded that it wasn't just one of his personal racist mouthfarts, I'm still wondering where that came from and why it would even be something to make a stereotype out of.  Even if it were true, it's not funny, it doesn't indicate any character defect that proves any point.  Wtf?  That was my reaction, then and now.  Wtf?

[Vela]

12 minutes ago, Gina Szanboti said:

The first person I ever heard throw out the "black people can't swim" trope was my uncle who was the very embodiment of the "your racist uncle" meme.  If you think Trump has no filter, you should've met this guy.  Apparently I couldn't hide the look on my face when he popped out with that, because he followed up with, "Oh yeah, they sink like a stone."  Aside from being astonished every time I'm reminded that it wasn't just one of his personal racist mouthfarts, I'm still wondering where that came from and why it would even be something to make a stereotype out of.  Even if it were true, it's not funny, it doesn't indicate any character defect that proves any point.  Wtf?  That was my reaction, then and now.  Wtf?

I'll touch this.

I mean, I don't know but I'd bet it stems from segregation laws prohibiting black people from using pools which produced generation after generation of people who never learned to swim resulting in a fear of water considering any kid who has a general knowledge of how to swim is still at a high risk of drowning.  Saying 'Black people can't swim' is just another means of drawing attention to racial differences as there is a higher percentage of black and latino vs. white in America that have "low or no swim ability" (according to a 2010 study by USA Swim) - because when you look at the small picture, go to the public pool or beach, it doesn't seem like a big difference...but then when you look at the grand scale and start making statistics it seems like a much bigger difference and tah dah you have a tool for.... yaaaaaaay racism!