And Josh keeps Drunky Smurf around so he can say to his real friends: “You guys will not believe what this asshole said the other day..”
Classic Josh.
Now y’all be Joshin’ me.
The difference is, thats your friend. The way I speak to my black friends and the way I speak around black strangers is VERY different.
When my friend Brandon walks into the house I’ll usually say something along the line of “uh oh, hide the VCR” joking about the stereotype that black people steal things. He usually will have some choice words about white people steroetypes.
No way in hell would I say anything close to that to a black person that I don’t have a previous relationship with.
And of course, Palin was absolutely correct. And since the libs can’t refute it, all they can do is whine like whipped dogs about her use of a wide-spread slang term.
Every time I think “Clothy can’t *really *be that dumb, can he?” …
I don’t know about that, but he’s not playing with a full deck if you know what I mean.
You must not be able to see his avatar.
Except more people are now talking about the “shuck and jive” portion of her quote than…whatever the fuck it was she was actually talking about.
Yep, it’s a wide-spread term. Why, I think I just heard it used the other day… back in the early 1970’s, when we were having dinner at Sambo’s.
They’ve been refuting it from day one. She’s full of shit and so are you.
This is sort of between Coulter-level and Palin-level. Medium grade.
The best way to test whether or not it was racist is to ask would Palin have used the phrase if Obama was white?
I think the answer is obviously no.
This also isn’t the first time someone used this phrase against Obama.
I’m actually embarrassed for all of Palin’s defenders that, unless I missed one, haven’t mentioned that Andrew Cuomo, the current Governor of New York used the phrase in 2008 explaining Obama’s loss in NH said “you can’t shuck and jive at press conferences.”
And yes, it was racist then and it’s racist now.
I’m sorry, but this is bullshit. Of course it’s defensible. Taking a wild stab in the dark and saying “I bet Obama likes fried chicken and watermelon” has about a 95% chance of being correct - because fried chicken and watermelon is delicious. It’s also so far off the offense-o-meter that it’s about as offensive as suggesting that the Polish invented the solar-powered flashlight. It’s a pathetic joke that idiot 4th graders said up until the late 80s. There are FAR more offensive things that jackass bigots say and insinuate, that getting up in arms when someone says that blacks enjoy food that 95% of the rest of the world enjoys is just asinine. Might I suggest instead of wailing and gnashing your teeth, you just point and laugh?
Anybody who doesn’t think that “shuckin’ an’ jivin’” isn’t racist hasn’t seen it said with the correct, and formerly standard, Stepin Fetchit mannerisms.
Yep. Say what you will about Coulter, she graduated with honors from Cornell, has a law degree from the University of Michigan where she was editor of the Law Review. Stupid, she is not. And she can shuck and jive with the best of them!
May I suggest that you practice what you preach— approach a group of black people at random (first driving yourself to a predominantly black neighborhood, if necessary), ask them if they like eating fried chicken and watermelon, and see how they react? And if they seem offended for some reason, advise them to get over it because you could’ve said far worse?
But interestingly, if you ask Josh if he has any white friends, he never mentions DS.
You betcha, Buckwheat.
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I must have missed the part of the clip where Palin used those mannerisms, then.