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SI.com which first reported Georgia Tech fans wear racist costumes vs. Alabama A&M (Photo) said they"fumbled" and "there doesn't look like there is anything here" because evidently some (not to be confused with all) Georgia Tech football fans have been dressing up in banana and monkey suits for every Georgia game since 2011. Oh, OK.
Per Brian: And it's not only SI that pulled their story. WSB-tv in Atlanta pulled their story. The Sporting News edited their story to point on that the SI writer had his story wrong. Only Black Sports Inline still has the story up. I wonder why?
Psst Brian! Sporting News.com still has the story up. So does Yard Barker.
Out of sight out of mind.... I don't know what saddens me more, the fact the white, male dominated, media pulled the story, or, that they think there is nothing to see, hear, or talk about here.
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been and we -- I believe continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards."~U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
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Racism won't end until it's confronted.
9 comments:
Did I say the sporting news pulled their story down? Nope, I said they EDITED their story.
And the yardbarker story is the Black Sports Online story exactly, just without the picture or tweet.
Did I say you said Sporting News pulled their story down? Nope, I said they still have the story up, but Shhh....let's not talk about it and maybe it will go away.
I don't have a problem with talking about what happened. Not saying let's not talk about it. Never said let's don't talk about it.
I believe the costumes were racially insensitive (and I have been saying that for a while), but do I believe the young men wearing them are racist? There is not evidence to support that. What evidence there is supports that the idea that they have been wearing these costumes for a while now because the stadium crew in a sophomoric attempt to get the crowd going plays a stupid video (I'm a Banana) that seems to resonate with college aged kids.
Should they have thought more about who they were playing and what they were wearing? HELL YES! But does that deserve you and others calling them racist and haters? No.
Do I think whoever was running the Home Depot twitter page was racist when they posted the picture of two black men and a white man in a gorilla suit as which one was not like the others? I hope not, but that appears to be a much more egregious case that what happened at Georgia Tech.
I do think there is a difference between being racially insensitive and being racist. If these young men wear those costumes again when another HBC comes to Georgia Tech, then I will decide whether they are just idiots or racists. Right now in my mind, they are just idiots who weren't thinking.
What is the difference between being racially insensitive and being a racist?
1) Katy Perry wearing a geisha outfit at the AMAs has been called racist.
2) Miley Cyrus twerking at the MTV Music Video Awards has been called racist.
3) Lily Allen using black backing dancers in her video "Hard Out Here" has been called racist.
Were any of these cases of racism? No. They may have been racially insensitive because they did not look at the situation from all view points but they are not examples of racism.
Being racially insensitive just means you did not intend to insult anybody of any different race but you did. Racism and being a racist, at least to me, means that you intended to insult another race.
When I was in high school, I was into heavy metal. One CD I had that I listened to a lot because I liked it was Body Count which was founded by Ice-T and Ernie C. I had the copy of the CD with Cop Killer on it. Some of the songs had the n-word in them. If I got into the song, was singing along with the song and said the n-word, would that make me a racist or might I have been racially insensitive?
PS, who called the incidents you cited above racist?
Katy Perry:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/american-music-awards-2013-katy-perry-accused-of-racism-for-dressing-as-geisha-8962401.html
http://t.co/iFxytNtwgX
Lily Allen:
While numerous bloggers and tweeters have condemned what blogger 'Black in Asia' sees as the “denigration of black female bodies”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/lily-allen-defends-music-video-after-use-of-black-twerking-dancers-deemed-racist-8939720.html
Miley Cyrus:
Others have argued that Cyrus' appropriation of 'twerking', a dance typically associated with Afro-Carribean culture in which women shake their bums provocatively in the direction of their admirers, was a racist act.
Writing on Vulture, the New York Magazine's pop critic Jody Rosen said the performance was "all about race". She said: "As Cyrus stalked the stage, mugging and twerking, and paused to spank and stimulate analingus upon the ass of a thickly set African-American backup dancer, her act tipped over into what we may as well just call racism."
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-tongue-the-twerking-the-teddy-outfit-should-someone-have-stopped-miley-cyrus-vma-performance-8785494.html
So is there a situation where somebody can wear a gorilla and/or banana suits?
*Shrug *
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