POLL Position: Halloween Spirit or Racist?
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 - #3841 - TOTALLY RANDOMTags: Halloween, Polls, Racism, TwitPic
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NOTE: This is all JOKES! So don’t attack me with You’re playing the race card, We’re all one society, We have a black president so why are you complaining, blah blah blah. I learned my lesson for the Axe incident.
I love Halloween decorations. But this one struck me as a little odd. I know the unmentioned store didn’t do it intentionally. But I couldn’t help thinking: Maybe they should’ve used a lighter-skin mannequin. Or Kim Cattrall in Mannequin. But that could be my “Racism Gene” talking. You see, in every black person, there’s a gene that makes them find racism in EVERYTHING! It’s scientifically proven.
SO YOU DECIDE: Is it in the Halloween Spirit or Racist? Answer the Poll and leave comments.
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9 Comments: “POLL Position: Halloween Spirit or Racist?”
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[...] Let’s play Halloween Spirit or Racist. (Black Nerd Comedy) [...]
RT: @BlackNerd: POLL POSITION: Halloween Spirit or Racist? http://blknerd.com/?p=3841 by @BlackNerdComedy
One could argue that if the dummy was costumed it could be interpreted differently, but even then it’s still kind of rancid.
BlackNerdComedy.com » POLL POSITION: Halloween Spirit or Racist? http://bit.ly/2MQ86B
I’m white and I think it’s racist–well, at least, bloody insensitive!
What the F?!? is this supposed to be?
It’s one thing to have a decoration of a body hanging on Halloween. But usually Halloween decorations don’t show people hanging by their snapped necks and smiling. Halloween decorations don’t usually depict a hanging body with no other injuries (especially how most seem to confuse gore with horror nowadays). Halloween decorations don’t usually depict just everyday average Joe Sixpack hanging by his snapped neck. Usually it’s a demon or a skeleton or a witch or some other grotesquery. Not just some average black guy that looks like he previously showed up at your door to take your daughter out to the movies.
With all this being common knowledge, why would someone depict an ordinary black guy hanging by a snapped neck? They had to have known the possible social implications. You don’t start waving the Confederate flag and whistling dixie if you don’t want people to construe that you’re a Confederate apologist or sympathizer. You don’t go around quoting Mein Kampf and wearing inverted swastikas if you don’t want funny looks from the Jewish community. Likewise, you can’t burn a white person in effigy outside the local Shrine of the Black Madonna during Black History Month and expect to get away with “Oh, we were burning a racist in effigy in symbolizing our hopes of eradicating racism everywhere”.
Admittedly some of us play the race card too quick. But when your culture has been subjected to 4 centuries and of racism and slavery, your race develops a sort of sensitivity to it. Go figure.
Interesting thoughts, Vincent. While I honestly feel it was a mistake on their part, you would still think at least one person would go, “Ummmm… don’t you think….” That’s why the workplace needs to be diverse, ha ha.
Info/Tokenshow do you know hes not half white
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