Why is liking fried chicken a negative stereotype? Fried chicken is awesome.
Because Kuwabara some people are thin skinned and don’t like delicious food.
If somebody was there I’d have been like
LET FREEDOM RING!!!
Every month is white history month.
^Thank Dog.
In all fairness, once I left a black neighborhood people didn’t give a fuck about Black History Month. Most neighborhoods I live in don’t give a fuck about Hispanic Heritage Month, either. Makes me a little sad.
Droppin’ knowledge. Nasty as hell and not easily digestible.
Pigs themselves are disgusting, filthy, foul-smelling animals. What makes you think they’d smell like seasoned prime steak when you boil them raw?
He’s gotta be one charming motherfucking pig.
People cry too damn much, if you don’t want your friend chicken, watermelon and cornbread then pass that shit down.
Oh noes this delicious food is racist, I am going to throw a fit and not eat it. Good get out, more for me.
My response to this story and thread?
Fucking hell, skipped out on lunch and this thread is making me regret it, would have had KFC if I ate too (Got a good one near work that rivals independent places).
In all seriousness, how the fuck does a school specificly have a black student union and manage to fuck this up, I mean you’d think that the first thing the school would do when thinking “Ah let’s do something for black history month” would be to talk to the black student union that is right fucking there.
It’s like entering the school into a baseball contest or whatever and not saying a fucking word to the baseball team, where is the fucking communication and common sense here?
They were all good until they included the watermelon. But overall people need to find more important shit to bitch about.
I think the biggest lesson to be taken from this story is stop honoring black people.
And not just black people, races in general. When you honor a race it supports the idea that we should be separated on racial definitions. Racism is defined as treating someone differently purely on the basis of race. It’s a kind of discrimination. It can be both positive or negative. If you think about it, if you honor a race that is a kind of racism. You can honor someone without regard to their race.
Honor the poor. Honor the slaves. But stop honoring race.
My feelings on racial honoring and history months are succinctly expressed by Morgan Freeman in a clip I’m sure some of you may have seen before:
March is women’s history month. And gender/Sex honoring is no different than race honoring.
if they’d voted on it, all but watermelon would have made the list…
I think that’s where the stereo type exists or rather is seeded within. connotations and racist imageries included.
a menu of cornbread chicken and greens prob would not have much much fewer or might not have been seen as offensive.
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I’ll be sure to give strippers fives instead of ones next month
Just supporting the cause
why did you even write the first sentence? lol. black history month is not about superiority, and i dont think i need to explain to you why for decades, something like black history month has been a good thing. yes, as the world has vastly changed from even just 30 years ago, i dont find black history month offensive at all. if the history books were filled with black historians and the stories of their struggles in a bigoted, racist, and prejudice society that simply hated them for the color of their skin even after stripping them of all of their identity down to even the god they worship, then i would say, morgan freeman and yourself have a point. i knew someone was gonna post that dumb ass video too. in that same video he says the best we to handle racism is to ignore it. lol okay, captain fantasy.
black history month is still actually fairly shallow imo, as most of the historians spoke about are just about what they have created and contributed, not how much they had to struggle in a racist society to even get to where they got to. if anything black history month needs to be filled with more details in school, on tv, etc… people obviously still do not understand how it was to be black in this country before we could all rap along to miley cyrus feat juicy j, which is evident how people have reacted to many of these movies lately on black history. people were kinda just like oh yeah, people were racist, but you know, all good, and then theyre like holy shit, was it really that bad. yes you dumb ass, and the reason they dont know that is because american history books like to just lightly graze over racism, prejudice, bigotry, treachory, and crimes commited by the people and THE GOVERNMENT of this nation just simply based on the color of ones skin, or ethnicity.
do you feel the same way about mothers day, fathers day, gay pride, lesbian pride, and breast cancer month? if you do, more power to you for being consistent. i just disagree that black history month is somehow fucking offensive all of a sudden because white people been jamming out to rap music for a couple decades or some shit. you know, it would be nice if black history month was unnecessary, and im sure there will come a time when we retire it, but lets not sit here and pretend that currently in 2014 black history month is dated and not needed. black history month wasnt even a thing until 1970, and before that was just a single week that im sure little fucks were given outside of the black community and “white” progressives, which is evident considering how the country still was shitty up until the civil rights movement. likely within your parents life line, they saw a world that treated black people as lower class citizens for absolutely no reason whatsoever other then the color of their skin. ive heard the stories first hand from friends parents and my family. it wasnt fun.
you want an irish history month, jewish history month, etc… i aint mad, give it to em. we have black history month because the majority in this country had a nasty history with african americans, now black americans generations later, and they have to acknowledge how fucked up it was by making sure we acknowledge that many contributions in this country werent just by smart priviledge white men, but of black men and women who fought hard to overcome adversity in harsh times in this country. if it wasnt blacks, but this was asian history month, i wouldnt be mad. if it was jewish people, or gay people instead of black history month, i wouldnt be mad. well in that hypothetical obviously black people werent in the same historical situation. im flip flopping obviously, and not saying that you could replace that now.
white people show their colors when black history month rolls around and they get a stick up their ass, like okay guys we get it, why do you need a month to rub it in our faces. its not rubbed in your face at all, and no i dont think you do get it. i highly doubt you get it at all. you know why i dont get up in arms for gay pride, because gays in this country have been through much adversity, and if they want to fucking march for that shit once a year or more and let people know we’re here, and here to stay, get the fuck over yourselves, then more power to them.
if i hated gay pride parades i would likely be homophobic, as other then jamming traffic, it really doesnt interrupt anything in my life, but it just makes me uncomfortable. so ask yourself what really gets a bug up your ass about black history month. are you that threatened by a month that you arent even forced to acknowledge other then seeing more articles about black history on your news site, and specials taking up your precious reality tv time? lol
Sounds damn good. I would buy lunch that day. Now I’m hungry!
Fuck poor people. Poor people are the problem. The only jobs poor people create are for politicians who pretend they are going to give them free stuff and stupidly vote for them #thepoorrapeddetroit
I’ll admit, as I typed that out I thought that people might take it the wrong way. But I felt it illustrated the point nicely. Don’t honor someone because of their skin color. Honor someone for the choices they’ve made despite sacrifice and hardship.
I would argue that setting aside special months for groups is probably doing more harm than good in the grand scheme of things. It might make people feel better in the short term, but again it reinforces the fact that this group is different and should be segregated from the greater society. Being different shouldn’t necessarily mean being segregated.
I don’t think ignoring something is the same as trying to make it a non-issue. Which is the whole point. As long as we keep making race an issue it will continue to be an issue. Racism endures because collectively we allow it to. If people feel that melanin levels in the skin and some other minor physical differences are cause enough to treat people differently they will continue to do so. Ultimately all forms of discrimination fall into this line of thinking. And the only way I can see to break out of this is to make those differences a non-issue. Recognize that being different doesn’t mean having to treat them differently.
So instead of celebrating and emphasizing how we’re different, how about looking at how we’re similar? I’m not saying to ignore the horrible history that happened. I’m saying learn from it and move past it. Stop falling into the patterns of the past and repeating those mistakes.
As I said before, honor people for the choices they’ve made despite sacrifice and hardship. If someone is a good mother or father, I see no reason why they shouldn’t be honored for that. If someone has did their best to leave a legacy after their life was cut short by a terminal illness, honor them for that. In a similar fashion, honor someone because they stood up to oppression, not because of their demographic.
Discrimination is never fun. But I’ll say this again: as long as people feel the need to have special months and parades for a group society will continue to segregate them. The goal to end discrimination should thus be integration and harmony.
Obviously this is purely my opinion and perhaps based off my own preferences. If I want to hold my girlfriend’s hand or kiss her in public I don’t want people to stare at me. But I also don’t want people coming up to me telling me how brave I am either. Stop making my sexuality an issue. It’s a part of me but I don’t want to be defined by that. I’m more than that. And I’d like for other people to recognize that as well. And personally, as long as we have gay pride parades I don’t see that happening.
I really don’t think it’s fair to say someone being against special months and parades must necessarily imply discrimination. That’s an awfully big assumption.
But it does beg the question: What is the end game? When will we reach a point when we don’t need these things? You can make the case that the present is bad enough to warrant such things. But if we keep that up we’re just going to get caught in a loop. Maybe if we want things to get better we need to think outside of the box. Maybe we need to try something different.
And maybe, just maybe, what we’re doing now to try and solve the problem is only prolonging it.