That is the laziest, most unimaginative racist party I have ever seen.
No kidding. I expect more effort from Texas.
I admit to being slightly astonished at the mixing of racist stereotypes. Rastafarian gang-banger? Do these kids know *nothing*?
This is the kind of shit my dad thinks is funny "because, you know, now racism is reversed and everyone has to be careful all the time." Kind of like how jokes about domestic violence are hilarious now that men are so emasculated by feminism.
I'm trying to imagine how I would feel if I was a prof at this school and I saw my students in these pictures. I mean, I've gotten evidence before that one of my students was a neo-Nazi, and another time that a student thought Palestinians were vermin who deserved to be murdered in their sleep, and I had to do some managing of my temper (and, in both classes, I ended up talking about genocide a lot). But what if you found out that like ten of these kids were in your class? Wouldn't you feel the need to say something?
and, in both classes, I ended up talking about genocide a lot
I've had days at the office like that too, but we always end up concluding that the logistics are prohibitive.
by the way, the bird in the checked dress looks like she might be a goer.
The Bush daughters may have been at this party, but probably not the Goers.
That is the laziest, most unimaginative racist party I have ever seen
Something to be thankful for; they look stupid, not cool.
Talk about mixing stereotypes. This one seems to be doing a (hang-ten, tongue-out) California surfer, a cornpone redneck (or train-engineer stripper?), and a Colorado slopehound in fleece.
Man, I want some fried chicken now.
This isn't even original. My alma mater got national media attention (and a special shaming in that year's Rolling Stone) for a similar party thrown by one of our fraternities.
10: I think he's trying to flash a gang sign.
train-engineer stripper?
HA! I had the exact same thought.
How can you hate someone who's trying to get you free chicken?
God, it all makes me hate white people.
I don't get it, Becks. If you want furniture, why would you want fried chicken? It's not like you're going to spend a whole bunch of money on furniture because you wanted fried chicken.
I guess they are marketing to people with really bad credit histories.
17: I didn't get that far. My speakers exploded with the sounds of local furniture advertising, and I had to direct my loathing at *someone*.
19 - Their most famous ad (which I can't find online, making me SO SAD) hinted that The Special Man would even take food stamps as part of the payment so I'm guessing the chicken is a good deal. I see that offer and think that, knowing me, I'd just ruin my new couch with chicken grease.
chicken grease
Nice euphemism, Becks.
Well, I said in an earlier thread that I would do that, or wear a KKK outfit, but only at like at Unfogged Meet-Up or other very liberal party, and only if I had no company or co-meta-ironists. IOW, only when everyone would despise me for it.
It is really hard to explain, unless by a committment to anti-social assholery. The movie The Aristocrats seems to have ruined me, and Gilbert's Gottfried's compassionate genius at the post-911 benefit...never mind.
"I'll wear your black eye/Bake you apple pies" ...Cocorosie
"Spike Lee could make the movie about the Minstrel show because he was black, but we whites can't" somehow bothers me a lot. Feels like racism.
I must admit, I got up and ate some left-over fried chicken after looking at those pictures. Mine was better, though.
yeah, because a lot of black people walk around with "I love chicken" t-shirts....
I had a student--in an ethics class-who was involved in a very similar incident. Frat party. Racist costumes. Pictures on the internet. Scandal. Administrative hypocrisy.
He wound up writing a paper for me in which he tried to explain why the costumes his fraternity were wearing--costumes that involved blackface and t-shirts for a rival black fraternity--were not racist, even though some of the other costumes were. The whole thing was hard for me to get my head around. I gave him a B.
That is a whole buncha white kids needing a beatdown.
On a tangent: I want to know why Isaiah Washington can call T.R. Knight a "faggot" and not be fired, when it's a pretty good bet that had Knight called Washington a "nigger", there would have been loud calls for his dismissal.
Oh, yeah, that's right, I forgot: It's still OK to call gay guys names and insist that all a lesbian needs is a "real" man to become a "real" woman.
29: Washington is meeting with gay activists and going into therapy, so I guess it's not okay. On the other hand, see Mark Harris on the palpable insincerity of the Offical Entertainment Remorse Machine.
26: In the South, they all do.
It's the law.
Washington is meeting with gay activists and going into therapy,
That therapy thing kills me. For christ's sakes, just admit you were a dipshit and knock it off.
That therapy thing kills me.
My thoughts exactly.
On the photos: the irony is that if it weren't for the "I love chicken" and "Aunt Jemima" props, a lot of those kids would actually just look like garden-variety wiggaz. (Well, maybe not the guy in the dread wig.)