Anonymous wrote:Isn't he in college and talking about a field trip in ES?

I think he said in the video that it was a field trip in the third grade.

No the subject matter is not funny. However, his delivery of the story is, very much so. Comedy has a history of shining a light on injustice, while making you laugh all at once.

I thought the story was hilarious. I'm an abuse and trauma survivor and humor is very much used to soothe pain as well as shine a light on injustice. It doesn't make the topic any less serious and it isn't demeaning. I thought the guy's use of the work "niglet" was especially funny - it conveys perfectly the sense of idiocy of that trip.

I'm curious, though, how do people know the audience was white? Yeah, I saw the white guy on the couch but there clearly were a lot of other people listening to his story. We hear their laughter. Why are you assuming everyone is white?

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penguinsix wrote:Ok, it's pretty sad that these kids were taken out to a cotton farm by a dumb teacher and told to pick cotton, but this guy's delivery of the story is actually kind of funny. He might have a career as a comedian.

(language warning)
h/t http://scientopia.org/blogs/drugmonkey/

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Anonymous wrote:AA posters, what do you think about the term nigglet (as per the video)?

Don't like it, find it disgusting and offensive, and I am especially bothered he chose to use it in a story told to a white audience.

Before anyone jumps on me for my last comment re: white audience, there are plenty of groups who find historically derogatory terms even more offensive when used outside the group. Women- bitch, gays/lesbians- fag/dyke, and so on.

I have plenty of black friends (teachers) who tell their children and students NOT to use nigger, as it's completely offensive within and outside of the racial circle. And you'll hear younger black kids refer to it as a term of endearment.

So who's to blame for this video? Are you blaming the young man for making fun of this incident? the whites who initiated it? the whites who are laughing at it? whom exactly? b/c it IS the young man who decided to post the Youtube clip . . .

A friend of his posted it to YouTube, actually, and he asked her to remove it.

Yes, of course there are black people who are against anyone saying nigger (I'm in this camp) and those who think its fine to use in-group and those who use it outside of the group. Just like there are gay people who have reclaimed terms like queer and dyke, gay people who are against using those terms, and gay people who are only fine with other gay people saying it.

Re: the bolded, can you clarify where I blamed anyone for anything? I can't answer your questions until I understand what your meaning is, because I didn't mention blame in my original post.

penguinsix wrote:Ok, it's pretty sad that these kids were taken out to a cotton farm by a dumb teacher and told to pick cotton, but this guy's delivery of the story is actually kind of funny. He might have a career as a comedian.

(language warning)
h/t http://scientopia.org/blogs/drugmonkey/

Gwyneth Paltrow approves this post.

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Anonymous wrote:12:50 PP here.

Not Angry, just conscious. Yes, I watched the video. I'm more disturbed by the DCUM replies than the video itself.

Slavery is horrendous. Would you guys laugh about genocide, cancer, rape, etc? Many of you would if it was connected to people who you don't view as human.

Actually, I do laugh about cancer. It's a coping mechanism because it's taken so many of my family members from me. And I have a Jewish friend that frequently makes holocaust jokes. People deal with things in their own way.

As one of the PP's stated you get a pass because cancer is a part of your life. You'd feel different if outsiders joked about this.

I'm an AA male, the black people I know don't talk like this. We find the 'N word' offensive and are ashamed that 'the worst of us' have embraced it. Someone here even had the nerve to say that this guy was articulate. Under what standard? Urban stereotypes, Ivy league speech... My teen doesn't talk like this because I don't talk like this. Do all poor whites talk like Honey Boo Boo? I

For the record this is not Bill Cosby posting.

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Anonymous wrote:AA posters, what do you think about the term nigglet (as per the video)?

Don't like it, find it disgusting and offensive, and I am especially bothered he chose to use it in a story told to a white audience.

Before anyone jumps on me for my last comment re: white audience, there are plenty of groups who find historically derogatory terms even more offensive when used outside the group. Women- bitch, gays/lesbians- fag/dyke, and so on.

I have plenty of black friends (teachers) who tell their children and students NOT to use nigger, as it's completely offensive within and outside of the racial circle. And you'll hear younger black kids refer to it as a term of endearment.

So who's to blame for this video? Are you blaming the young man for making fun of this incident? the whites who initiated it? the whites who are laughing at it? whom exactly? b/c it IS the young man who decided to post the Youtube clip . . .

Anonymous wrote:12:50 PP here.

Not Angry, just conscious. Yes, I watched the video. I'm more disturbed by the DCUM replies than the video itself.

Slavery is horrendous. Would you guys laugh about genocide, cancer, rape, etc? Many of you would if it was connected to people who you don't view as human.

Actually, I do laugh about cancer. It's a coping mechanism because it's taken so many of my family members from me. And I have a Jewish friend that frequently makes holocaust jokes. People deal with things in their own way.

I think the humor comes out of the outrageously stupid and ignorant it was to plan this field trip. Slavery isn't funny at all. Stupid school administration can be funny. I feel at the base of a lot of humor is pain. Remember the movie Punchline?! Comedians are some really sad people with messed up lives.

Isn't he in college and talking about a field trip in ES?

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Anonymous wrote:I hate to admit that it was funny.
He is extremely articulate.

http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2008/04/compliment-black-people-for-being.html

I am black. But I see your point. However, it got me how the story flowed. He never back tracked or said "um". Things connected very well. If my kids had to describe a situation like that it would take forever.

He's not a kid, though. He looks to be in his mid to late twenties. Or are your kids that age as well?

I thought he was a teen like my "kids". You know, he is talking about a field trip in HS, but if he is older then maybe his speech does not impress me that much.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate to admit that it was funny.
He is extremely articulate.

I asked one of my college kids about this video- Kendall the frat boy is famous on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoOSa1P50i8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLQuNAIwn5s&feature=related

Kendall is an vulgar self-hating idiot.

Agree with vulgar and idiot.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate to admit that it was funny.
He is extremely articulate.

I asked one of my college kids about this video- Kendall the frat boy is famous on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoOSa1P50i8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLQuNAIwn5s&feature=related

Kendall is an vulgar self-hating idiot.

Anonymous wrote:I hate to admit that it was funny.
He is extremely articulate.

I asked one of my college kids about this video- Kendall the frat boy is famous on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoOSa1P50i8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLQuNAIwn5s&feature=related

Anonymous wrote:As a regular to this forum I think there is race baiting going on.

By penguinsix?