Racist crap from right now

[Enzo]

There is a difference between classifying and describing.

I remember someone once on BAUT proclaiming he - or she - never notices what race someone is. How grand. I thought, gee, you mean you can notice if they are male or female, tall or short, fat or thin, dark or light haired, wearing glasses or not, hat or not, but you don't notice the skin tone?

Making note of a person's various attributes is not the same as judging them by them.

[troubleagain]

There was a Jumpstart comic about that, Enzo, many years ago. The nurse Marcy, who is black, is talking to a white nurse, trying to identify a doctor.

(paraphrased, because it's probably been 20 years.)

WN: It was Dr. Johnson.
Marcy: Which Dr. Johnson?
WN: The one in pediatrics.
Marcy: There are two in pediatrics.
WN: The tall one.
Marcy: They're both pretty tall.
WN: The one that drives the Volvo.
Marcy: They both drive Volvos (and so on...)
Marcy: Do you mean the black Dr. Johnson or the white Dr. Johnson?
WN: Oh, I never notice race.

[Heid the Ba]

[tangential joke]
There were two black african trainee doctors in a scottish maternity unit, having a heated discussion,
the first doctor says: "No it is a short, sharp sound, like 'whomb' ".
2nd Doc: "No it much longer and more drawn out, like 'wooombah' ".
and so on;
A scottish nurse walks past and says: "You're both partly right, it is 'womb' "
as she walks off the first doc says: "That's amazing, I didn't know she had been to africa, never mind having heard a hippo fart underwater . . ."
[/tangential joke]

Coat on, heading for door.

[Enzo]

That's good.

[Arneb]

One from where I just left - You have to know that Nurembergers and Fuerthers hate each other. It's like Celtic and Rangers.

Three baby boys born in the maternity ward in one night. They get mixed up. The fathers are asked to identify their respective sons. One is from Nuremberg, one from Fuerth, one from Kinshasa. The Nuremberger grabs the dark-skinned baby immediately. "Now, come on", the midwife frowns, "this cannot possibly be yours". "Sure", the Nuremberger says, "but that way I at least know I don't carry home a Fuerther".

[Heid the Ba]

Yep, that one gets told in Glasgow.

There is also the one about the old man who has been a Rangers fan all his life who on his deathbed asks for a priest to be summoned. His family are confused but get a priest. They are appalled when the old man converts to catholicism and gets the last rites. They ask him why and with his last breath says: "One more dead catholic . . ."

[Enzo]

I guess this belongs on the other racist crap thread, but it seems to have faded.

I bought some various chocolate candy from the bulk dispenser at the store. Brach's Bridge mix. SOme of the items are chocolate covered Brazil Nuts - the long curved things. Growing up, my mother always called them "nigger toes." At Xmas, they would be in the nut bowl in their brown shells. Eating them now just brought that back to me. Seemed perfectly OK thing to say to her, though she would have been livid if we said it outside the house.

Mom was raised on the edge of Appalacia in the Blue Ridge.

[umop ap!sdn]

I've heard the same term applied to Brazil nuts, though not chocolate covered as far as I can recall. From someone who had grown up in Oregon even.


Eenie meenie miney moe, catch a Brazil nut....

[Enzo]

Oh, the term was applied just to the nut, and mostly because of its shell. It was coincidental mine had a chocolate coating.

I forgot about the eenie meenie thing. Kids these days catch a tiger by the toe. Little do they know...

[umop ap!sdn]

I actually learned the tiger version first. (Thank goodness! I was exposed to enough racism growing up as it was.) The other version I didn't know about until I was already an adult.

[Enzo]

I remember when our kid was like 5 or so and he and a friend were eenie meenie-ing something. I had not heard it in a long time, but it was going along in my head with them, and when they said "tiger" it caught me unaware. Not that I really expected the original, but it had never occurred to me that it had changed. A moment of cognitive dissonance. I love when I can work the big words in.

Oh my god, it must have been a pardigm shift.



Sheesh, I had to read that awful Kuhn book THREE TIMES in my college career. HATED it every time. To me paradigm is about 20 cents.

[KLA2]

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/273910

I never thought I would see the day when "black" people would be calling for segregation. :(

I think I understand the arguements on both sides.

But where does this lead? It cannot be good for society, or individuals, in the long ... or even in in the short run.

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

I never thought I would see the day when "black" people would be calling for segregation. :(

It's nothing new, actually.
Black separatism

[KLA2]

A comic-book character popular in Mexico for generations has run into a cultural barrier at the border, where Americans see him as a racist caricature.

For more than 60 years Mexicans have followed the adventures of "Memin Pinguin." ...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/09/mexica ... index.html

Hmmm. Looks like a racist caricature to me ...

[Heid the Ba]

Is it wrong to laugh out loud at the name "Shawnedria McGinty"?

McGinty is such a comedy Scots name it just seems so incongruous.

[Мастер]

Is it wrong to laugh out loud at the name "Shawnedria McGinty"?

McGinty is such a comedy Scots name it just seems so incongruous.

I was going to say, it's a politician's name, but then I realized, different spelling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_McGuinty

[Heid the Ba]

Looks like the McGuintys are a proper politcal dynasty. Though I must admit I hadn't heard of them.

[KLA2]

Yes. Dalton McGuinty. Won the election in 2003 promising not to raise taxes. Then immediately imposed a new tax of up to $900 per person, saying "I had no choice."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_McGuinty

Was re-elected four years later, promising, "No new taxes."