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Check out this site. blackpeopleloveus.com.
WTF???
OK, it’s obviously a joke. Note the funny pictures, the funny “testimonials,” etc. What I don’t understand is, what is the author of this site trying to say? IOW, what is the big joke behind* the little jokes?
I posted a link to this about a month ago asking if peole found it offensive. I showed it to my racially diverse office of 5 and they loved it. Showed it to some others and they were a bit skeptical.
I think the point of the site is that white people tend to bend over backwards around blacks to avoid being labelled a racist, which could lead to results like this site.
IIRC, ABCnews had a recent article about it. The people who run the site are white and were raised by their black stepmother (and I guess white dad). I’m pretty sure that I read that their intent is as Oblong put it. Sort of the cliched, “Some of my best friends…” idea.
There was a big NY Times article about it recently—the authors (a white brother and sister) create various spoof web sites, and thought this would be a hoot. Had no idea it would take off as it has, though.
I didn’t find the web site funny, but it’s pretty clear what the creators’ intent was: to ridicule white people who are a LITTLE bit racist, and try to gloss over it by saying silly, offensive things that they HOPE will sound good.
Look, nowadays, very few white people are flat-out bigots. Yes, you have your occasional KKK idiot, but most white people don’t HATE blacks. The problem is, even a well-meaning, middle-class white guy just doesn’t KNOW many blacks. And when he meets them, he may be tempted to show how hip, liberal, and NON-racist he is by saying dumb patronizing things.
Example? Well, I know that many black athletes fume privately when a white sportswriter describe them as “articulate.” The sportswriters obviously THINK they’re being complimentary, but the athletes don’t take it that way (“What’s he saying? That black people in general are so stupid and inarticulate, it’s notweworthy when a guy like me can string a few sentences together?”).
The creators of this site obviously hope some clueless white people will recognize themselves, and change their behavior.
how did you not find the site funny?! It’s hilarious
I like those pictures on the front page of them pretending to be having a great time. It looks so fake. Great stuff.
Quotes from the “Testimonial” part of the site:
and
:D.
I personally almost bust a gut laughing. But then, I find “The Boondocks” funny, too, and a number of people apparently think that is offensive.
Man, that was funny.
I think the site is pretty funny, although it’s kind of a one-joke thing.
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Actually, I think what they’re saying is that athletes in general are stupid and inarticulate. </hijack>
I found this site hilarious!
As the great Andy Richter show teaches, we should all strive to vigorously celebrate and at the same time, completely ignore our differences!
Yeah, this site is really funny. The really weird part is the Letters portion, which is emails people have sent to the site. It’s like half the people don’t get it at all, and half of them busted a gut laughing at it (with a few who got it but didn’t consider it humorous). I thought it was funny.
Personally, I like the Pictionary game with the drawing of Africa.
And maybe I’m just looney but the “It’s crazy—Black people really do seem to love them!!” girl looks just like the woman who started the rejection line.
Sally is hot, I’d hit it.
Hey always glad to meet another boondocks fan.
I personally find “sally” rather Hot 
I wasn’t offended, but I wasn’t amused either. I guess I’ve seen this deal before-making fun of the way white people think of blacks. It is funny the first time, but it seems stupid after that.
I agree with Super Gnat. It’s funny to most who “get it” and offensive to those who don’t.
Some people may “get it” and still not find it funny. That’s because humor is objective. Very objective.
Me, I’d make up a “whitepeopleloveus.com” site if I had the chutzpah. (Sometimes I feel like the “white people love me” spokesnegro here at the SDMB).
That was a joke, son!
I think it’s hilarioius. When they were playing hangman and the white girl was stumped when it read R_CISM…priceless.
Some black people I’ve talked to are mystified that white people would even try to understand racism or the particular difficulties of growing up black in society, because they thought it was condescending. Sort of like standing next to a guy whose leg is stuck in a bear trap and saying “I feel your pain.” When your relationship to another person is defined in large part by their race, even if you have good intentions about it, it still doesn’t make for a good relationship.
Then there are the people who try to go way overboard into things they consider part of black culture, like hiphop music, but they never shed their fears of actual black people. Like the opening sequence of Office Space, where the software engineer is listening to some rap lyric about having his “pistol-point cocked”, jamming out with exaggerated hand gestures, then he quickly turns down the music and rolls up the window when a black street-peddler walks by his car.
Friendships shouldn’t be race-conscious, they should be based exclusively on…well, friendliness, I suppose. As Oblong put it, if you’re bending over backwards to avoid being labelled a racist, or if you’re trying to show how “hip” you are whenever you’re around that person, then your relation to the other person is based on their race, not them as a person. The site is thought-provoking and funny, and you can’t ask for much more than that on the internet.