Gah, that’s stupid on so many levels. For one thing, racial bigotry is alive and well from California to Ohio to Pennsylvania. For another, New England is where the South bought its slaves from. And for a third, if white isn’t a culture or heritage, then why is black? Africa is a big place, and not all blacks hail from the same tribe or colony. People regard Indians as having a culture, and yet we were hundreds of different cultures. “White”, as I understand it, means roughly people from the swath that encompasses Scandinavia, Northern Europe, parts of the Mediterranean, and on through the Caucasus. And finally, if whiteness is no big deal, why go out of one’s way to say that the guy is “so white he makes an albino look like Isaac Hayes”? Does it have some bearing on why he was pitted? If not, why mention it? I don’t mind that it was mentioned, but don’t mention it and then back away from it with toss-off comments about who or what qualifies as a culture or heritage. I mean fuck, people were raising hell about someone saying in another OP that the guy he was pitting is Mexican. That’s not even a fucking race. It’s a nationality. Like Canadian. Deep South my ass. Physician, heal thyself.
Hey now. It’s not at all just limited to the South!
Sometimes Southerners move north.
“He’s so white” is just shorthand for being white-bread or vanilla. Uninteresting, bland, sanitized. Like, well, John Tesh’s music.
I must say though, whenever I think John Tesh, I think NBA on NBC. Chhhh! Do do dodo do doo do do dodododo doo dodo doo dodo doo do do!
D’oh! :smack: My apologies to the OP. (You young’uns need to do a Wikipedia of slang. You’ll need one too one day.)
Lewis Black, is that you?
They play her show before Tesh’s, but mercifully, all I can hear of it is “Delilah.”
Whenever I think of John Tesh, I think of him riding a bicycle-built-for-three with William Shatner and Abe Vigoda.
There seems to be a dichotomy in this argument. If I am not (as you seem to be saying) expected to feel shame for the crimes committed by my ancestors, why should I feel pride for their accomplishments? I didn’t own any slaves, so I don’t feel guilty for the actions of Jefferson Davis. But I didn’t free any slaves, either, so I don’t feel pride for the actions of Abraham Lincoln. The whole idea that I should have some special investment in the actions of people who share my race is suspect, anyway. I’m about as closely related to George Washington as I am to Nelson Mandela. Why should I take any particular pride in Washington’s achievements, moreso than I do in Mandela’s achivements, just because George and I share a melanin defeciency?
Well, until Paul Newman kicked him in the balls.
I still want to hear what he said about Falwell. Stupid sexy Falwell.
John Tesh, John Tesh - wasn’t he a host of some vapid entertainment magazine-type television show in the '80s?
Yea,. he’s also married to Connie Selleca, and they agreed to not have sex before they married. why do I remember stupid shit like this?
A real Walter Fucking Cronkite compared to where he’s taken his career now.
That reminds me of the bit that Conan O’Brian did where he points that the “NBA on NBC” music (by John Tesh) can make any movie/tv scene better.
My favorite was from It’s a Wonderful Life where George Bailey saves the other guy from the river, set to that music.
Didn’t he used to do an interview show on Atlanta’s super station back in the 70s? Or is that a different Tesh?
I’ve agreed not to have sex with John Tesh forever.
And Connie Sellecca agreed not to have sex with me. It all works out.
So, how *you *doin’?
Yes, and he also composed the theme music for that same show - for which crime *alone *he should have his testicles nailed to the floor.
I just had to say, I’ve never laughed at anything on the Dope as hard as I laughed at this.