The Racist Potato
by Steve Gibson, Oct 04, 2000 9:59pm PDTYikes, managed to screw up my sleep schedule in one fatal swoop. At any rate I woke up to this story in my inbox and I felt you guys may wish to discuss the sociological impacts of such things. Thanks Jeremy Horne
Last March, Gov. Lincoln Almond named Mr. Potato Head the official "spokespud" of Rhode Island and started putting up statues of Mr. Potato Head to promote tourism. [...] , the Associated Press reports that one of these statues has been deemed racist and will be taken down. The offending statue is the Tourist Potato.
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if you do, no more napster =)
I'm Nigerian, born and raised and I get dissapointed when I watch BET. The only real black channel (yeah some of you dumbasses will say 'black' channel is rascist but you forget who owns all the other million channels and who they are geared towards. OPEN YOUR EYES) All I see on BET is clowns coming out and almost promoting ghetto life, a white person turns on BET and the sterotypes get enforced. I'm tired of the Al Sharpton type loosers who white people will see on tv and immediately think they speak for all black people, the potato head retards who insult themselves by saying they look like mr. potato head. And chose to make a big deal out of something like that while their efforts could be used for something more productive. Theres stupid activists everywhere that crusade blindly like the GreenPeace ppl who drive SUV's or the animal activist/vegetarians who where clothes made from animals they too are all blinded and can't see the bigger picture.
I have plenty of white friends some of which had ideas about me before knowing me and now see me as a person but I can't be fucked to go around changing people and letting them open their minds and judge people by who they are, i'm not on a crusade to end rascism. I have my own life to live. I can see how white people get tired of this potato head type stuff but if you cannot understand where the minorites are coming from and why all these types of issues pop up. The funny part about all this is that I am Nigerian and have as much in common with whites in this country as I do with the black. The only similarity with the blacks is the color of my skin and the difference is the way I am treated differently by both in general.
I beg you people. Always try to get the other persons point of view first.
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if your gonna take one down then all should come down because eevery one of them bares a duplicate look of some race of people..gee go figure
"mr" potato head..Hey is there a female one so the women can have something stupid to bitch about??
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This is absolutely true.
I can't look at one of those damned toys without laughing out loud...
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I don't think he's an idiot. It is an observation of MINE that blacks' racist and prejudiced ways are not frowned upon as much as whites.
ra·cism (rszm)
n.
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
Explain to me BET (black entertainment television)... imagine "white entertainment television" hahahaha yeah that would happen. Watch any number of stand up comics, black or white, make racial comments.... they're all making fun of white people. These are obvervations. Deny it tho? Explain any kind of "race quota" where someone may not get a job because someone of another race is not well represented. See definition number 2.
BTW, I think white people are, at least in the US, the most violently racist, at least on a large scale... but then, you are dealing with much bigger numbers.
Chunks
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Then the Sigma guy? Whats sigma?
Then the slickster dufus himself, Cliffyb. Hes the closest to a gaming god out of that bunch. And that is sad.
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stable?
what about drivers?
do 2k/9x work?
ratbastard: #8, Oh, no. You're not tricking me into looking at (*GAG*) her, again! -Rat (No... @ The Racist Potato
Good morning, freaks. Entertain me!
-Rat
-Quantum Monkey
And now that I think of it I've been up for 20 hours. WTF is up with dat??
get to work 133t monkeys - money is involved hehe
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and whoever does this has to cut me in damnit!
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I should be wacked out for 12 hours right now but I guess my body is geting useto not geting shit for sleep. Also I can't remember shit because of this.
You can't learn |337 5p34|<. You become it.
(and stuff)
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very true I guess. Only thing I can say is that generally it's acceptable in comedy for anyone to make fun of white people while only black people can make fun of other black people.
I don't think any one particular race is more or less racist than the other.
Chunks
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Oh and the point about BET was that it is acceptable to disciminate whites, but not vice versa. I know that largely the rest of the network space (besides the WB) is well over majority white, but there isn't a built in exclusion policy. Racism is racism regardless of whether or not it does improve the situation.
I'm tired. Bed time.
Chunks
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Killcreek: Mmmm Mmm *slurp* *choke* *gag* *slurp* Mmm Mmmmmm... shouldn't we be working on another 40meg Daikatana patch?
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