Please...tell me this isn't real..it can't be...right?

So, stopping by www.badmouth.net, I glance over at the side of the site where they have “news” headlines, and I come across this headline/link.

Words fail me.

Please, tell me this isn’t really real, I have so little faith left in humanity as a whole and society in general as it is.

http://www.rent-a-negro.com/

It’s got to be a joke, right?

Right?

Even if it isn’t, will you please lie to me and tell me it is? :frowning:

Oooh! They take Discover!

Woory ye not - I am sure it is a joke.

http://www.uppity-negro.com/cgi-uppity-negro/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=937

:slight_smile:

It’s a sick, sick joke. Kinda like Bonzai Kitties and Manbeef.com.

It’s not a joke, it’s an art project. The copywrite information says:

And here’s an article about it.

Kal: Copyright. Copywrite makes no sense. :slight_smile:

(It’s related to the right to make copies. Copy-right.)

I only did it to test y’all.

That’s very funny.

Why the surprise? Half the work I’ve done in Japan has been as a ‘rent-a-whitey’.

If you like the one they send you, can you buy it. Kind of like a rent-to-own plan.

Um, of course it’s a joke, it’s like Black People Love Us, or Landover Baptist.

Damn. I was fixin’ to make myself a quick buck or two.

You mean all this time I could have been charging for my services? Damn.
[sub]I’ll visit the site in the OP when I get home. I read the article and was intrigued, to say the least.[/sub]

If you follow the link on the copyright notice at the bottom of the page, you might notice that it’s a performance art piece by Damali Ayo, an African American artist who does conceptual stuff on slavery reparations.

Here’s a Salon article about it on her press page.

Well I’ll be, I do seem to learn something everyday. You know, as obvious as this information might be, I never put it together.

Oh well, I guess in the epic battle between common sense and ignorance, I’ve just been given some ammo to launch at ignorance. :smiley:

Only 11 hours late. How the hell did I miss Kal’s post?

Shesus.

I revise my original claim of testing y’all and now say that I only did the typo so that Meatros would be learn something.

You change light bulbs and get stuff off the tall shelves, don’t you?

That’s part of the free customer-support package.

My sister sent it to me last week- it’s hilarious.

do you know the kind of money I could have made growing up and in college if I had thought of this first? “Touch my hair” alone would have been worth a significant amount of pocket change, not to mention personal appearances…

maybe she’ll franchise…