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Kola_boof AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4865 Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 01:59 pm: |
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HEADLINE of ARTICLE: "Halle Berry to portray Obama in Movie" (Link below) The article is HILARIOUS, but let me tell you... White people ain't SLICK. As usual, they change their tactics and use HUMOR and "word play code" to say all the hateful things they've always delighted in saying about our kind. You think racism is dead? Read this with your "ears" and "second eye" ON. http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s4i46435 . |
Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 3357 Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 06:33 pm: |
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There will be many, many humor "missteps" during these Obama years. First of all, GWB was just such a treasure trove of jokes for stand-up comedians, late night show hosts, sit-com writers and the average Jane and Joe at the office water cooler. The jokes, as they say, wrote themselves. But now all these folks will have to figure out how to joke about a President Obama without committing racial faux pas. My own humble suggestion is that we all turn down our being-offended meters a couple of notches. Otherwise we will all be in the doctor's office dealing with our pressure and our sugar behind a bunch of nonsense. Of course, there will be those who use their "oops" humor pass to say what they really feel. Another humble opinion: it's not going to be conducive to try to figure out folks' intent. At any rate: It's gonna be a looooong few years... |
Kola_boof AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4869 Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 07:03 pm: |
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I know you're right, Yvette. But one thing I'm NOT ENJOYING---are the constant "murmurings" that Obama is really gay and that Michelle looks like a Man. I ONLY hear this when I'm around my White Friends (and my friends here in Cali are "rich" and they're t.v. producers, writers, agents, reporters and local politicians). During an unguarded moment... I even witnessed a GAY WHITE MALE "friend" of mine (someone I've defended in the past, Yvette) make the comment that---"a lot of the darker skinned black women have a masculine look." I don't find that true or funny, but I do KNOW from being around so many White people when they're genuinely and innocently being "humorous" and when they're giving "CODE" for their racial beliefs. That NEW YORKER cover was satire, yes ---but there was also a lot of racist shit that was INTENDED, MEANT and DELIBERATE by that staff when they concocted it. I don't care what anybody says. And aside from the comments about Michelle looking like a man (which they always use to put down her height--a particular bone for me), I'm really sick of the CHIMP photos showing Obama and Michelle as monkeys. I don't find it amusing AT ALL and I'm seeing the shit everywhere. A goddamned Bi-racial child in my valley (we're still talking CALI) had a t-shirt with O & M depicted as Chimps and thought it was "cute" because "it doesn't mean anything and that's what they really look like". . |
Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13353 Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 07:39 pm: |
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Saturday Night Live needs to nix the white cast member who plays Obama. To me, he looks and sounds nothin like him. |
Kola_boof AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4871 Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 08:05 pm: |
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Cynique.... THANK YOU! What is up with that? . |
Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 7684 Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 10:45 am: |
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But one thing I'm NOT ENJOYING---are the constant "murmurings" that Obama is really gay and that Michelle looks like a Man. (Wait 'till Ann Coulter gets hold of THIS one) |
Kola_boof AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4894 Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 03:37 pm: |
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I know---right, Chris? And YVETTE, Did Black folks ever disrespect Jackie Kennedy like this? This isn't funny. I'm ready to FIGHT. |