true racism is being afraid to make jokes about other people's fear of what they percieve as "a different culture". people are the same everywhere.

true racism is being afraid to make jokes about other people's....



not really dude. true racism is an illogical step in determining why you are better than anoher arbitrary-labeled group of people.

"race is an illusion"



in terms of biology, yes



you don't mean in contrast to a running race, right?

nice link lemon.



wonder if my anthro teacher saw that

people are the same everywhere



Ha... good one...



and what if one doesn't WANT to make jokes about "a different culture" (as opposed to being afraid to)?

you don't mean in contrast to a running race, right?



hehe, sure... i guess i meant to say that race is an illusion and yet racism is real

obviously people are not the same everywhere in terms of cultural preferences and physical looks, but we're all humans and equal from nature's side.

or rather: assholes will be assholes, regardless of creed or color.

but we're all humans and equal from nature's side.



Man, too bad nature's not in charge...

yeah, but some assholes are more asshole-ier than others...

sure it is. look at Katrina and that tsunami in thailand a few back.

nature could wipe us out if it was a sentient being. luckily it's not.

Sir, I think I love you.

muhahahahhahahaha ghetto racism muahahha

harlem muahahaha

ipear, its Tupac, not Tupaq.



-white kid

The only thing I wonder is why this wasn't printed on a black tee, it is about the ghetto isn't.

*Looks in the mirror and remembers he is black too*

The only thing I wonder is why this wasn't printed on a black tee, it is about the ghetto isn't.

*Looks in the mirror and remembers he is black too*

sure it is. look at Katrina and that tsunami in thailand a few back.

nature could wipe us out if it was a sentient being. luckily it's not.



I mean in charge as far as race is concerned, which is what this blog was about, right?

I have mad hops for a brown kid

if this shirt's offensive to you, you're probably not from the ghetto or never even been there... you're also an uptight retard too...



I'm from the ghetto (Chicago) and I'm (a little) offended. I mean, it is kinda funny and the photo is hilarious, but I'm offended that "the ghetto", in the eyes of this designer is only about blood, gangs, police and crime.



I'm an uptight retard who grew up in the projects!!! YAY!!!

I'm buying this, regardless if I'm afraid to wear it outside of my cozy hometown.

fuck white.

Chicago isn't all ghetto.

*cough*

north side

:)



rep the palatine.



or something



gah I'm so brown

Is Robert Taylor "ghetto", cuz that's where I grew up. Federal Street....Apt. 808

I just know the north side man.



Drivin' in Benzes, goin' to Medievil Times, using $20s as bookmarks, playing b-ball with non-minorities, and shopping at Dominics.



Tribune rules, fuck the Sox.





stuff and stuff

yeah, federal street is definitely no-lab zone.

Used to be able to see White Sox park out of my bedroom window there... watched the fireworks on Saturday nights from the window. Strangly, I became a Cub fan... for a short while, then I grew up, wised up and came back "home"

xD



Cubs fans are whiny but hilarious.





(and no, I don't use $20s as bookmarks...hell...I don't think I've had that much money in my life.)

no shit.



are you really from palatine?

nah, I'm just there a lot.



I was born in Philly, and I moved to Knoxville....



...but I'm pretty familar with Richmond and San Jose too. :)



Are you from Palatine, shirt?

wow, okay, I thought the shirt was funny basically because I live in a suburb right outside of a ghetto, and all the kids in my cozy suburb are like "I'm so ghetto! Life's so tough!" And I'm like, "umm.. you live in a suburb." The whole concept of the ghetto being this place where people want to be is strangely (strange only because it's a place with hard-core struggle) enough true... it's like you can't have components of the culture if you're not from there... and Americans, well, in many ways worship that culture and people want to be a part of it. People don't want to be wannabes (or maybe the grass is greener on the other side?)

And WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! Where do you people live where it's okay to make such racist comments (- I'm not talking about the shirt, I'm talking about some of you peeps)? Okay, just to get the definition straight: racism is intolerance based on another's ethnicity, and racism is based on tribalism + ignorance (usually, it could also be based on douch-dom and insanity). Some of you people sound like my cousins who live out in white uneducated land ("I'm going to pretend I actually understand something about a culture I've only had exposure to on TV and joke about it, even though all I have a grasp of is the culture's stereotype"). Fuck, retards are in abundance!

Maybe.

or better yet, where do I live? Why is it that I'm so surprised people don't know how to deal with issues like racism and sexism in an intelligent, productive manner, instead of just awkwardly throwing around jokes and thinking that you're actually making a point? Oh right, I live in the land of the integrated people who consider people as people... a rare gem in my country, I forget sometimes...

crazy bitch, you live in the Netherlands, right?



there must be a total of 1 black person there. THERE IS ONLY ONE GHETTO, AND IT'S IN AMERICA.

Actually there was a ghetto in germany.

note, *is.



See the present tense there?



See it?



Yeah.

Well they moved it to Palestine, see.

Hadley, I miss your old account.



Meat is a much better topic of discussion.

much better?



hell



I was thinking of butter and I just typed those two words out...



shit.



I want pancakes

Oh did I tell you? I might go vegan. I don't suffer enough as a vegetarian.

:(



wait



how can you be a vegan AND jesus at the same time?

He had bread and wine, not bread and butter!

I will prove that jesus ate butter.



or at least pancakes



to wikipedia!

whoa, hey Laborpsus, I was just making a comment on cultural/national differences pertaining to gender roles when I mentioned that country- 'cause Rooster said something like don't be angry that that's just the way it is- my point is that it doesn't have to be that way. I said I'd move there, not that I do live there, speaking of illiteracy...

hmmm... what else... to clear things up, I live adjacent to the West side.

NEVER! I AM BOTH VEGAN AND THE SON OF GOD!

agreed. It's ludicrous this shirt even got printed.

i think the shirt is funny in its way, i don't find it universally offensive.



but its something i could not wear, because it would have been offensive in places i've been and to people i have respected. i doubt this would have been well-received if i'd been wearing it up on the 16th floors in the old cabrini, or hanging around austin village or any number of other places i have spent time. even wearing it outside those areas while working and hanging with tons of people who lived in the so-called ghetto would have seemed off to me, i think they would have been like wtf. i think it would have come off as a mockery.



that might make me an uptight retard to some, but to each their own of course. i would not be offended if i saw some white hipster wearing this, but i would surely assume they hadn't been there. might be an interesting conversation starter.