Racist MLK party. Nice...

**Goofball** · 01-26-2007, 23:55

A couple of groups of university students threw MLK Parties at which they wore fake gold teeth, dressed in Aunt Jemima costumes and shirts that read "I Love Chicken," drank malt liquor out of bottles wrapped in brown paper bags, and ate K-Fry.

Nice.

I'm sure MLK would have been proud.

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?...1&f=00&fg=copy

On the surface, I would normally write it off to "really stupid things university students do," but I have a bit of a harder time with it in this case because the video states that one group of students were in law school. Yikes...

**Crazed Rabbit** · 01-27-2007, 00:10

It seems they're making fun of gangsters. But I guess that makes them 'racist'

I thought it funny how the announcer said they had a racist party "where students drank malt liquor and ate fried chicken" - is it just me, or does that say something about what the announcer assumes about certain people?

CR

**Goofball** · 01-27-2007, 00:15

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

It seems they're making fun of gangsters. But I guess that makes them 'racist'

Really? I wasn't aware that Al Capone was reported to be a lover of K-Fry, or that Sammy "The Bull" Gravano liked malt liquor.

Honestly CR, if you can't even acknowledge that these kids were blatantly making fun of black American stereotypes, then you truly have your head in the sand.

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

I thought it funny how the announcer said they had a racist party "where students drank malt liquor and ate fried chicken" - is it just me, or does that say something about what the announcer assumes about certain people?

As stated, those are common stereotypes that almost all Americans are aware of. And parties such as these just aggravate the situation.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 01-27-2007, 00:25

Well sorry I didn't specify modern gangsters instead of 1930s mobsters.

They were making fun of black gangster stereotypes.

As stated, those are common stereotypes that almost all Americans are aware of. And parties such as these just aggravate the situation.

Aren't they more aggravated by assuming when someone not of the stereotyped race fulfills one of the stereotypes, they're being racist?

CR

**Watchman** · 01-27-2007, 00:28

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

Aren't they more aggravated by assuming when someone not of the stereotyped race fulfills one of the stereotypes, they're being racist?

Blacks are allowed to address each other as "niggas" if they so wish. Whites aren't allowed to address Blacks as such.
Live with it.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 01-27-2007, 00:30

Originally Posted by Watchman

Blacks are allowed to address each other as "niggas" if they so wish. Whites aren't allowed to address Blacks as such.
Live with it.

Um...where did I say I had a problem with that?

CR

**Strike For The South** · 01-27-2007, 00:32

Originally Posted by Watchman

Blacks are allowed to address each other as "niggas" if they so wish. Whites aren't allowed to address Blacks as such.
Live with it.

"Niggas" isnt offensive "N****r" is. Besisdes I use it all the time with my black friends its not the term its how its said that is the problem. I fund the parties quite funny and so would many people I know. There making fun of ganagstas not blacks if you find the two synonomus you have the problem not them.

**Goofball** · 01-27-2007, 00:30

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

Well sorry I didn't specify modern gangsters instead of 1930s mobsters.

They were making fun of black gangster stereotypes.

Aren't they more aggravated by assuming when someone not of the stereotyped race fulfills one of the stereotypes, they're being racist?

CR

Whatever, man.

Wearing a t-shirt that says "I love chicken" and a sideways ballcap while drinking malt liquor out of a paper bag is not making fun of black stereotypes.

You're right.

It was insensitive and racist of me to suggest it.

Have a good weekend...

**Strike For The South** · 01-27-2007, 00:26

I have a cousin at Tarleton!

**IrishArmenian** · 01-27-2007, 00:29

Crazed Rabbit, it was one MLK day. Now, who else would they be making fun of? MLK did not campaign for civil rights for "gangsters" so that claim looses what sway it had.

**Mooks** · 01-27-2007, 00:35

Who cares if they offend these "gangsters" ?The population I live around is 50% black, and alot of them "gangsters". Of course, gangsters is just another word for inept, stupid, ignorant morons who will achieve nothing with their life. Offend away...