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- From: serranrj@nyssa.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Robert J. Serrano)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
- Subject: Re: OMAR's bio : Jive version
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 05:17:09 GMT
- Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- Sender: serranrj@nyssa (Robert J. Serrano)
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- In article <1992Nov15.163526.6672@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
- |> In article <1e55pdINNbvp@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> serranrj@k9.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Robert J. Serrano) writes:
- |> >Gee, Mr. Something-up-your-butt, if you had ever actually bothered to read what
- |> >has been posted about Omar, you will notice, that he is not black
- |> >(African-American). He is, by heritage, Pakistani, which is on the South Asian
- |> >Continent (you know, with India and Afghanistan).
- |>
- |> And if you bothered to read the post I'm complaining about, you'd see that
- |> it's full of anti-black racist stereotypes. Complain to the RHIT bozos who
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Jive _was_ one big black stereotype (though not necessarily racist, it's pretty
- much used strictly for humor purposes these days. Besides, Omar is
- _not_ black (a fact he likes to point out on occasion).
- If Omar was black, then it might be deemed offensive and your argument might be
- justified. Or, on the other hand, if someone had altered the bio (which is, for
- those who doubt it, really his (I checked)) to include stereotypical Evil Muslim
- Arab phrases, that most likely would be deemed offensive. But neither of these
- is true.
-
- |> can't tell the difference between all of those non-whites.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- So, in other words, since your assertion of the racist content of the "Jive"
- posting is correct and Omar is not black, this means that the posters of the
- "Jive" bio just can't discriminate correctly from the different nationalities?
- Puhleeze. Get a grip. Has it ever occurred to you, that maybe, just maybe,
- somone saw the original posting of Omar's bio, and said, "Oh, I think a really
- neat thing to do would be to post a jive version of the bio." Or do you just so
- enjoy race-baiting that this thought never crossed your mind?
-
- |> I challenge *anyone* who doesn't believe me or doesn't find the post offensive
- |> to repost the "Jive" version to soc.culture.african.american. Put your money
- |> where your mouth is. I'm sure the African Americans will find all the lines
- |> about pink cadillacs and jive extraordinarily funny, don't you?
-
- If it was sent to them along with the background information a few of them
- (on s.c.a.a) might get a chuckle out of it, depends entirely on who reads it,
- And how kindly they take to having irrelevant stuff posted to their group. Or
- are you trying to say that all African American's think in exactly the same way
- about everything (got news for you, they don't). So, who's stereotyping, here?
-
- Rob
-