Have you seen the sparkling wiggles video on youtube?
I don’t have the link right now, but go to youTube and type in “sparkling wiggles”. What it is is a mother and father with their oh, 3 year old, at the table.
They tell her to say things like “no sparkling wiggles at my party” and “sparkling wiggles should get a job.”
But, due to her kind of lispy voice, what “sparking wiggles” sounds like is, well, spoilered for sensitivity, or something. . .
“fucking niggers”.
They have her speaking into a cell phone and are having quite a laugh over the whole thing. It’s quite offensive. I’d really like someone to find out who these people are. It’s remarkable they thought it was a good idea to put that on youTube.
Well, I sure wouldn’t have broadcast it to the whole damn world.
It reminds me, though, of when I was a kid and my youngest brother, who had a speech impediment, would pronounce the word truck like it was a cuss word.
My other brother and I were about ten and eleven at the time. I wish I could tell you that we were kind and sensitive about this whole thing, but that wouldn’t be at all truthful.
I think if I were there, I would have laughed. If I were to record it, I probably wouldn’t email it, but I’m sure I’d show a friend on my personal computer. But, either posting it on YouTube or emailing it to people who eventually distributed it faurther is in bad taste. But it’s still funny.
Not funny. Pretty distressing that they would post that up there. Even if they aren’t racists, there is still too much potential to be perceived that way. That horrible ‘‘n’’ word is not one to be taken lightly, IMHO.
Yes, it’s funny that the kid mispronounces “sparking wiggles” to make it sound like something else… but the fact that the parents enjoy it so much that they decide to film it, lead her to say “sparkling wiggles” in sentences that can ONLY be interpreted one way, and then post it on You Tube… not so funny anymore.
But, oh, I’m sure those parents have plenty of black friends so NO WAY are they racist :rolleyes:
Opie & Anthony played the heck out of it last week, and I have to say:
It’s just funny.
Remember: just because the kid can’t speak clearly doesn’t make her a racist. It doesn’t even make the parents racist, unless “sparkling wiggle” is a racial epithet I’m not aware of.
Are the parents a little douchey for making a video out of it? Yeah. But reacting like the kid’s actually saying what it sounds like she’s saying is an overreaction.
It wasn’t really offensive to me at all until the mother said “Get a job, you sparkling wiggles,” and the phone appeared. Even then, it didn’t elicit more than a :dubious:. More offensive, IMHO, are the comments I saw on the YouTube page.
