White America Has Lost Its Mind

[Henry Hawk]

I understand, when your ideas are challenged you tuck tail, no problem.

What idea of mine is being challanged?.....and I'm tucking no tail, just had enough of this ridiculous, waste of time this has become, at least for me it is.  You sterotyped me and (me) already, and you have not heard a thing I have posted on here for weeks...the thrill of this forum is gone for me.

[me]

Like I said, nit picking and grabbing at straws.  Should he have said hot dogs or maybe pizza?  He was talking cheaper meals and nothing more.  Like I stated, chicken is eaten by everyone.  Now if he had said chicken wings you and the author of the article may have had a valid point because that is what is stereo typed not chicken dinners.  He said chicken dinners. 

Seriously me, if you're going to play dumb, I'm not in the mood. Everyone has heard the stereotypes regarding black people, fried chicken and watermelon. Do you sincerely think his intent was innocent? If so, why hasn't it been suggested previously. His remark is very much like the comment Fuzzy Zoeller made about Tiger Woods and the Open Championship dinner. Bringing up Harry Reid doesn't disprove the author's point.

[LOsborne]

Now if he had said chicken wings you and the author of the article may have had a valid point because that is what is stereo typed not chicken dinners.

Really? Here in the Devil's Playground, chicken wings are eaten by sloppy guys watching sporting events -- usually without benefit of napkins.

Chicken dinners are served on the  "grip & grin" award circuit (where somebody gets a meaningless award -- like "most enthusiastic soccer mom," and poses with the plaque in one hand while shaking the presenter's hand with the other.) Also called the "rubber chicken and peas circuit." As me implied, the organizations serve it because it's cheap.

Black folks serve barbecue. And damn fine barbecue, at that.

[Sandy Eggo]

What idea of mine is being challanged?.....

All of them

and I'm tucking no tail, just had enough of this ridiculous, waste of time this has become, at least for me it is.  You sterotyped me and (me) already, and you have not heard a thing I have posted on here for weeks...the thrill of this forum is gone for me.

and that's why..

[Sandy Eggo]

Like I said, nit picking and grabbing at straws.  Should he have said hot dogs or maybe pizza?  He was talking cheaper meals and nothing more.  Like I stated, chicken is eaten by everyone.  Now if he had said chicken wings you and the author of the article may have had a valid point because that is what is stereo typed not chicken dinners.  He said chicken dinners. 

Not true, several examples:

http://www.thecubnews.com/2010/03/watermelon-kool-aid-and-fried-chicken/

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090705174957AASxs4j

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/stereotypes-list.html

Black people loving fried chicken is such a common stereotype, that I can't help but think that you're playing dumb.

He could have said a million things. He could have said if Obama cares about the deficit then he should have a less expensive inauguration dinner and left it at that, but he didn't. He identified w/the black sterotype and I think that's because he's a racist.

[Sandy Eggo]

Really? Here in the Devil's Playground, chicken wings are eaten by sloppy guys watching sporting events -- usually without benefit of napkins.

Chicken dinners are served on the  "grip & grin" award circuit (where somebody gets a meaningless award -- like "most enthusiastic soccer mom," and poses with the plaque in one hand while shaking the presenter's hand with the other.) Also called the "rubber chicken and peas circuit." As me implied, the organizations serve it because it's cheap.

Black folks serve barbecue. And damn fine barbecue, at that.

Chicken is served millions of places and there's no denying that, but w/all the options out there, why did he chose the exact one that is directly linked to the stereotype? I don't believe in coincidence.

[LOsborne]

Black people loving fried chicken is such a common stereotype, that I can't help but think that you're playing dumb. ..

....and I think that's because he's a racist.

You could easily be right, Sandy, on both counts, since I am unfamiliar with the common stereotype images in Texas ... or nothern Indiana, apparently. In the Devil's Playground, when we stereotype the menu of African Americans, we talk about fat-back, chitlins, and collard greens. But fried chicken? That's what gramma cooked for dinner every Sunday. I swear.

[Sandy Eggo]

Perhaps it is regional. I honestly hadn't considered that, but w/both you and "me" confused by it, I'm thinking so.

Okay, Delay is a Texas boy (I think)...guilty

[Bo D]

I can't help but think that you're playing dumb.

Playing?

[The Troll]

and THAT is why you are one of my favorite gals on here.....heck anywhere....

  Suck Up!  

[Lester Sasquatch]

When I was a kid growing up in Georgia our babysitter was a big black woman, Aunt Mandy, who lived down the block. Aunt Mandy was so big she filled the doorway when she came in. She would cook fried grits, black eyed peas, buttermilk biscuits, and the best bacon gravy in the world. Once in a while she would bring a quart mason jar of fish she called "the carps". It was all good. Sometimes her husband, Uncle Smokey Joe, would stop in and play his banjo and make up songs and my older sister and I would sing along. At six years old, I had no idea what "Aunt" and "Uncle" actually meant, I assumed it was a close friend of the family. I told the teachers aide at school I knew a song my uncle taught me and she said I could sing it. It started out "There was an old darkie his name was Smokey Joe" and as soon as I sang the first line she cut me off. She made me hold out my hands while she hit it with a ruler. Said what I sung was bad and it really confused me. I told her my uncle taught it to me, she replied he was a racist. I had no idea what that meant. A week or so later Uncle Smokey came by and I told him what happened, told him the teachers aide said he was a racist and I shouldn't be around him. The next school day he showed up and talked to the teachers aide out in the hallway. I could hear loud talk but not what was said. When she came back in it looked like she was about to cry. As I was leaving that day she asked me how was Smokey Joe my uncle, I said he just was. I always like Uncle Smokey Joe and Aunt Mandy but after that day he showed up at school he was my hero.

[Sandy Eggo]

In some ways, wouldn't it be nice if we could preserve that innocence?

That reminds me of a man who lived in our neighborhood. His name was Gladys. He had a haircut like a man, wore clothing like a man, sat like a man w/arms folded over wide open knees, sat w/the neighborhood men telling war stories and he even had a wife. I had known him my entire life at the point that I started 3rd grade and my new teacher's name was, Gladys Reed. I thought it was funny that she had a man's name, so being the curious sort, I asked her why she had a man's name. She said, Honey, 'Gladys' isn't a man's name". After school I told mom about the conversation and a few hous later when she could look at me without bending over in laughter, she explained.

[Lester Sasquatch]

Yes Miss Sandy, it would be nice if we stayed a child in some ways. When I was in Georgia children always addressed the adults, certainly our teachers, my "Ma'am" and "Sir". After we moved up to Indiana, I dropped that habit after being teased by my peers. It took some effort as it was so instilled in my mind but after hearing "kiss ass" muttered by the kids behind me every time I said "Yes Ma'am", and getting ganged up on during recess by a pair of bullies, I was finally able to stop. I was in third grade and it was the fist time I had ever been in a class of all white kids.

Your story about Gladys reminds me of a woman I knew in HS. Her name was Eve but she went by Pete.