Racing Uncertainties

[molly bloom]

I saw this only a few days ago and was appalled. Probably less appalled than I'd have been if I'd had to watch the whole film (I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry) but watching any film that contained Rob Schneider AND Adam Sandler would be beyond my tolerance levels.



What was Schneider thinking ?

It's terribly reminiscent of Mickey Rooney's appalling caricature in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's ':

'Miss Go Right Ri !!!! '

All wrong.





It's by no means an American disorder.

Remember Alec Guinness as a babu in a '(Back) Passage To India' ?



'That's two Hail Maries, 1 Chicken Tikka Masala and a terrible Indian accent to go, hai ram!'

And I still have fond memories of Laurence Olivier's Caribbean bus conductor Othello, who always seems to be on the verge of breaking out into 'Lemon Tree, very pretty...'



Or perhaps it's a calypso rendering of 'Kumbaya'...

[Sava]

big deal:







Nowadays, people (non-racists, that is) think blackface (or other racial equivalent) is in poor taste, to say the least. You aren't allowed to do it.

Yeah, blackface is wrong dude... we get it.

Now go fight a battle that hasn't already been won.

If anything, Schneider was mocking the stereotype by acting super ridiculous.

[Pax]

Okay green and blue girls are hot!

[OneFootInTheGrave]

He was thinking - I need money, and people will pay for me dressed up like an alien.

[molly bloom]

If anything, Schneider was mocking the stereotype by acting super ridiculous.

Yeah, right.

He's 'mocking' a racist stereotype by doing an inaccurate impersonation of a Japanese man in much the same kind of get up donned by Mickey Rooney decades before in less 'unenlightened' times.

Still not getting rid of your lawn jockeys, Sava ?

[Main_Brain]

Orion Girls

[Sava]

Yeah, right.

He's 'mocking' a racist stereotype by doing an inaccurate impersonation of a Japanese man in much the same kind of get up donned by Mickey Rooney decades before in less 'unenlightened' times.

Still not getting rid of your lawn jockeys, Sava ?

How do you know Japanese people weren't really like that back then? Were you alive? Nope. All information you present to the contrary is hearsay and cannot be trusted.

[Tuberski]

This okay still, right?

ACK!

[molly bloom]

How do you know Japanese people weren't really like that back then? Were you alive? Nope. All information you present to the contrary is hearsay and cannot be trusted.

The same way I know that these people are beyond hope, despite never having met them :

[Sava]

A HA! But you know they exist! There is evidence!

Case closed.

[molly bloom]

A HA! But you know they exist! There is evidence!

Case closed.

It's a little early for highballs, isn't it ?

[Sava]

I try to wait until noon (48 more mins!).

But generally, 6 hours from when I wake up is acceptable.

I was up at 5am.

[molly bloom]

I try to wait until noon (48 more mins!).

But generally, 6 hours from when I wake up is acceptable.

I was up at 5am.

Too thunk to drenk.

[Lorizael]

We elected a blackish president. Racism is over.

[Sava]

blackanese