Post by Max on Sept 30, 2020 17:24:15 GMT
Met up with a good friend today, I’m white he’s black, and we were reminiscing. Twenty some years ago we once went to a fancy dress party as Vincent Vega & Jules from Pulp Fiction, we both had the black suits, black ties and white shirts…..so cool we were! I blacked up and went as the Sam Jackson character with curly wig, he white’d up, slicked back hair and clipped a Travolta fake pony tail on. We laughed all night as did everyone else, my mate was doing ‘the dance’ and I kept trying and failing to recite ‘the speech’, anyway we won and shared the first prize that night for best costume.
Today we both laughed and said how glad we are that we ain’t having to grow up now as millennial, woke snowflakes. The over sensitive, humourless generation seems so utterly clueless they try (and so often fail) to jump on any cause they decide as being hot for political correctness…or in our case specifically no doubt they’d have shouted culturally inappropriate.
I do not get the outcry about blacking up for a fancy dress party. To go as another character is what the thing is all about! Jay-Z and Beyonce went to a fancy dress party as Ken & Barbie, they looked great – no drama that they chose white characters. Many black women straighten their hair, Chinese tourists come over buying Levis and wearing Nike. Millions of westerners have ‘eastern’ symbol tattoos. Years ago I remember David Beckham wearing dreads, none of his black teammates were horrified but some white media people were. I recall Katy Perry and Avril Lavigne getting slaughtered for wearing ‘Japanese’ style fashions…so what, I say?! They love the country and the styles, its admiration that brings about these positive influences for them. No great surprise to learn the Japanese were not offended, they were flattered actually, no it was the white people saying they were offended on behalf of the Japanese.
Remember the student union president at Southampton Uni threatening to paint over a mural from the 19th century depicting an event because there were no black people represented on it? Priceless!
More confusing still is the Kendrick Lamar gig when he got a load of his own fans on stage, all singing one of his own songs lyrics back to him…and he stops because a white girl sang the ‘n’ word! It’s a lyric from his own damn song! Sorry but the ‘n’ word is a bad word for any black person, if the word is painful to hear from a white person it should be equally, if not more, from a black person.
Since humans were created they have always taken influence from one another. It happens in every culture, religion without exception and the concept of it being insulting is farcical and demonstrates exactly how mind-numbingly ridiculous some of the youth have gotten. Life’s way too short to take that seriously!
Today we both laughed and said how glad we are that we ain’t having to grow up now as millennial, woke snowflakes. The over sensitive, humourless generation seems so utterly clueless they try (and so often fail) to jump on any cause they decide as being hot for political correctness…or in our case specifically no doubt they’d have shouted culturally inappropriate.
I do not get the outcry about blacking up for a fancy dress party. To go as another character is what the thing is all about! Jay-Z and Beyonce went to a fancy dress party as Ken & Barbie, they looked great – no drama that they chose white characters. Many black women straighten their hair, Chinese tourists come over buying Levis and wearing Nike. Millions of westerners have ‘eastern’ symbol tattoos. Years ago I remember David Beckham wearing dreads, none of his black teammates were horrified but some white media people were. I recall Katy Perry and Avril Lavigne getting slaughtered for wearing ‘Japanese’ style fashions…so what, I say?! They love the country and the styles, its admiration that brings about these positive influences for them. No great surprise to learn the Japanese were not offended, they were flattered actually, no it was the white people saying they were offended on behalf of the Japanese.
Remember the student union president at Southampton Uni threatening to paint over a mural from the 19th century depicting an event because there were no black people represented on it? Priceless!
More confusing still is the Kendrick Lamar gig when he got a load of his own fans on stage, all singing one of his own songs lyrics back to him…and he stops because a white girl sang the ‘n’ word! It’s a lyric from his own damn song! Sorry but the ‘n’ word is a bad word for any black person, if the word is painful to hear from a white person it should be equally, if not more, from a black person.
Since humans were created they have always taken influence from one another. It happens in every culture, religion without exception and the concept of it being insulting is farcical and demonstrates exactly how mind-numbingly ridiculous some of the youth have gotten. Life’s way too short to take that seriously!