[quote]Jason van Wyk wrote:
I don’t have any black friends so it was interesting for me to learn about the lotion and “ashy” skin thing. Do most black people apply lotion very regularly?
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It’s not just black guys who need to lotion up, but dark guys in general. My parents immigrated to Canada from a hot dry climate and my skin isn’t really built well for Canadian weather, especially the winters. So why expect me to have the same needs as someone of European Descent?
In the winter I make sure to have lotion close by, because after 5-10min of being outside the back of my hands will completely dry out and get a little “ashy.”
[quote]therajraj wrote:
I missed it… what is the problem with putting on lotion???
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Ask waylander. He was the one who made the post months back about laughing at some black guy for doing it. I just know he isn’t the only one who finds anything even slightly culturally different as so funny and strange that it deserves giggles.[/quote]
So you’re categorizing a whole group by your perception of one person’s actions?
Ask waylander. He was the one who made the post months back about laughing at some black guy for doing it. I just know he isn’t the only one who finds anything even slightly culturally different as so funny and strange that it deserves giggles.[/quote]
Maybe he wasn’t taking culture into account? He just saw a big dude slathering lotion on himself for the 1st time. I’ve got psoriasis and have to do the same exact thing on my face, hands, elbows and knees. My friends laughed at me the 1st time they noticed me putting lotion on my face as well.
The “race card” pendulum is begining to swing back into it’s correct zone imo. I would say on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being little concern with racism (slave days) and 10 being overzealous claims of racism where it doesn’t exist we are currently around a 7-8.
Race pushers (both black people, and the white/others who use it on blacks behalf to push an agenda) have watered the claims down so much that most people don’t even give a shit when it brought up. Yeah tea party is racist, Bush was racist, youtube videos are racist, “Black Holes” are racist, blah blah blah. Like the boy who cried wolf, this only hurts those that are actually victims of real racism.
People acting stupid in youtube videos isn’t racism. If they choose to act like that on camera, tough shit, I am going to laugh. Our fucking President is black, and racism charges seem to be more common now than anytime before. Hopefully the pendulum swings back to around a 5 so those who are actually victims of this shit don’t get over looked. An idiot screaming Whooooot-Whooooot because of his tailpipe doesn’t cut it. And so what if a local tv station reports on that bullshit.
They are on every fucking day, the must fill time. They can only run stories about “be sure to stay hydrated, cuz it sure is hot out there” so many times. The St. Patty’s day thing was obviously a big deal in that local community as proved by how many people were out there looking for it (not a big deal in regards to importance, more like when someone finds a frosted flake that looks like Jesus and everyone wants to see it.)
[quote]dk44 wrote:
The “race card” pendulum is begining to swing back into it’s correct zone imo. I would say on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being little concern with racism (slave days) and 10 being overzealous claims of racism where it doesn’t exist we are currently around a 7-8.
Race pushers (both black people, and the white/others who use it on blacks behalf to push an agenda) have watered the claims down so much that most people don’t even give a shit when it brought up. Yeah tea party is racist, Bush was racist, youtube videos are racist, “Black Holes” are racist, blah blah blah. Like the boy who cried wolf, this only hurts those that are actually victims of real racism.
People acting stupid in youtube videos isn’t racism. If they choose to act like that on camera, tough shit, I am going to laugh. Our fucking President is black, and racism charges seem to be more common now than anytime before. Hopefully the pendulum swings back to around a 5 so those who are actually victims of this shit don’t get over looked. An idiot screaming Whooooot-Whooooot because of his tailpipe doesn’t cut it. And so what if a local tv station reports on that bullshit.
They are on every fucking day, the must fill time. They can only run stories about “be sure to stay hydrated, cuz it sure is hot out there” so many times. The St. Patty’s day thing was obviously a big deal in that local community as proved by how many people were out there looking for it (not a big deal in regards to importance, more like when someone finds a frosted flake that looks like Jesus and everyone wants to see it.) [/quote]
[quote]therajraj wrote:
I missed it… what is the problem with putting on lotion???
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Ask waylander. He was the one who made the post months back about laughing at some black guy for doing it. I just know he isn’t the only one who finds anything even slightly culturally different as so funny and strange that it deserves giggles.[/quote]
So you’re categorizing a whole group by your perception of one person’s actions?
Isn’t there a word for that?[/quote]
WTF? What WHOLE group was I categorizing in that quote?
Care to point that out? I want the exact quote of the whole group.
That was actually kinda tight…except for his “false endings”.[/quote]
I thought so too. Amazing how fast he picked that song up, unless that’s the tune to something else that he already knew. It was posted 1 day after the Gregory Brothers’ posted the Bed Intruder song/remix.
