BlackPeopleLoveUs!!

DELTAQTE · #1 10-23-2002, 06:20 AM

LAWD I hope Black people own this site! lollol!

http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/

MaNessa · #2 10-23-2002, 08:54 AM

Why do we always get involved in some mess like this and then when it backfires call them racist, and bring up every racist thing they ever said. No I don't think an African American owns this site but they sure know how to use us and it's a shame. I don't like it! But that 's my opinion and you know what they say about opinions right.

JJSP01 · #3 10-23-2002, 10:37 AM

I'm with you MaNessa...I don't like it. Even if this is supposed to be some type of parody on black/white friendships, it's perpetuating every stereotype about blacks. What's up with the "nigga please" comment?

ClassyLady · #4 10-23-2002, 10:38 AM

I thought this site was hilarious! I sure do hope that black people own this site. I really think that someone black had to design it and come up with the concept because white people probably wouldn't pick up on stuff like that.

MaNessa · #5 10-23-2002, 02:00 PM

I don't know I didn't find any humor in the site. I would hope Black Folks don't own the site. ClassyLady don't you believe white folks don't know, they study us and steal our thoughts, hopes, and dreams, and the sad part is we let them cause we are to stunned to believe they know the real deal.

NOWorNEVER · #6 10-23-2002, 03:36 PM

Honestly, I think it's hilarious. Obviously it's supposed to be a joke. You can tell by the staged photographs (they are all wearing the same clothes in the pictures) and the pictionary photos.

I truly believe the site was created by some intelligent black person somewhere who was just trying to get a laugh. It's just a parody how of a lot of white people think that having a few black associates and using black slang makes them "down"

I am not at all offended...if anything, I would think white people who view this would be offended because the joke is at their expense.

prayerfull · #7 10-23-2002, 03:57 PM

OK...this is some F'd up bullcrap!

...Putting on my "investigator" hat!

Despite some thoughts, no this site is not owned by black people.

This stupid site is owned by a guy named Jonah Peretti. He works for a company called Eyebeam.

His "personal" website is here: http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~peretti/
The Eyebeam website is here: http://www.eyebeam.org/

Here's is Staff Bio from theire website:
JONAH PERETTI,Jonah Peretti joined Eyebeam in 2001 as Director of R&D and Post-Graduate Studies. He is creating a laboratory at Eyebeam's 21st Street space where students, artists, and scientists collaborate on art and technology experiments. Jonah manages the R&D residency program, teaches and organizes post-graduate courses, and hosts events focused on technology research. Jonah graduated from the MIT Media Lab where he developed experimental educational technologies. His research and design interests include the history of the artist's workshop, tactical media, memetics, critical theory and social network theory. Jonah's media experiments have been covered by the NBC Today Show, CNN, BBC television (UK), Canal Plus TV (France), Time magazine, USA Today, The New York Observer, and elsewhere. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Harpers, The Village Voice, Rhizome.org, Computer Graphics magazine, C-Net, and academic journals. He teaches MFA students at Parsons School of Design and speaks regularly at conferences.

I'm not impressed.

JJSP01 · #8 10-23-2002, 04:34 PM

Thanks for the info Prayerfull...I'm not impressed either!

sequel_1913 · #9 10-27-2002, 09:23 PM

WTF

Choo-ChooAKA · #10 10-29-2002, 03:36 PM

I think this is a fantastic satire on the way many whites and blacks interact - especially in the workplace where we're forced to try to find some common ground on which to begin a working relationship (we don't have to bring this type of person home with us). Because this type of racism is intangible and eludes our grasp when we try to name it, many of us (me included) have become resigned to just living with it instead of fighting against it. A website doesn't have to name it but simply show it in all of its sickening glory and hope its point is taken. I think we need to educate white people as to how their actions are perceived. Let's not cloister this type of information and allow ignorance to be an excuse for continuing racism.

The only piece I find problematic is that the site was created by a white guy. I'm bothered (like a previous poster and one of the posters to the website in the "Letters" section) by the fact that the white majority is speaking for us - which reinforces historial patriarchal patterns that we are trying to transgress. Setting that aside as something I'll have to ponder further...

All-in-all, at this stage in my thinking (and I'm liable to be out of this stage 10 minutes from now) I think the website is positive. Hopefully, "they" will "get it" as satire and comprehend its meaning.

Choo-Choo
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Eta Gamma Omega via Eta Lambda F'90

GroovePhi62 · #11 10-29-2002, 04:04 PM

If ya'll trippin this hard look take a look a look at the show Scratch and Burn sometimes and tell me how degrading this show is. Mad TV, Cedric, SNL, The 7up guy..the list goes on and on!

FuzzieAlum · #12 10-29-2002, 04:22 PM

This isn't my forum, but I think this conversation is fascinating at showing how different people, esp. from different racial perspectives, react differently to racial topics.

When I saw the site, I assumed it was mocking white people. Most of us white people don't know all that many black people, but if we get close to one or get along with several, we think we are just the coolest, most racially open person. Look at some of the threads on the forums here - "My (NPC) sorority chapter is sooooo diverse - we have one black girl!" There are a lot of white people who get along with the black woman down the office hall, but if that white woman is walking down an emptry street and sees a black man walking towards her, she starts to get nervous.

I took the site as saying not that "blacks say things like this" but as "we white people are dumb@$$es for thinking black people really are impressed with our pathetic attempts to prove ourselves non-racist." It shows the world of delusion most of us live in. I think, morever, the people it is designed to provoke are white ones - we're the ones who believe, after all, that racism is dead and black people should just love us.

It's a shame that it's being taken differently, but that's the danger of using satire or parody to make a point. Some people won't get that it's parody, others will disagree with what point it is making, and others think some topics should be off-limit to humor. Right here we have reasonable people disagreeing about what his point is, which considerably dilutes it (no matter who is right about what he is trying to say, because maybe it's not me).

However, I do disagree with one point - white folks do have the right to enter the racial debate, parodically or seriously. They might not be right, they might not understand, but the moment they are excluded is the moment they stop taking the claims seriously. I think it's hard to have a meaningful diaglogue about race without including all races in it.

AchtungBaby80 · #13 10-29-2002, 06:44 PM

FuzzieAlum--ditto what you said. I was trying to think of a way to put my thoughts into words, but you did it for me.

Personally, I would like to see a black person make a "White People Love Us" web site...it would be really interesting to see this from the flip side.

NOWorNEVER · #14 10-29-2002, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by FuzzieAlum
This isn't my forum, but I think this conversation is fascinating at showing how different people, esp. from different racial perspectives, react differently to racial topics.

When I saw the site, I assumed it was mocking white people. Most of us white people don't know all that many black people, but if we get close to one or get along with several, we think we are just the coolest, most racially open person. Look at some of the threads on the forums here - "My (NPC) sorority chapter is sooooo diverse - we have one black girl!" There are a lot of white people who get along with the black woman down the office hall, but if that white woman is walking down an emptry street and sees a black man walking towards her, she starts to get nervous.

I took the site as saying not that "blacks say things like this" but as "we white people are dumb@$$es for thinking black people really are impressed with our pathetic attempts to prove ourselves non-racist." It shows the world of delusion most of us live in. I think, morever, the people it is designed to provoke are white ones - we're the ones who believe, after all, that racism is dead and black people should just love us.

It's a shame that it's being taken differently, but that's the danger of using satire or parody to make a point. Some people won't get that it's parody, others will disagree with what point it is making, and others think some topics should be off-limit to humor. Right here we have reasonable people disagreeing about what his point is, which considerably dilutes it (no matter who is right about what he is trying to say, because maybe it's not me).

However, I do disagree with one point - white folks do have the right to enter the racial debate, parodically or seriously. They might not be right, they might not understand, but the moment they are excluded is the moment they stop taking the claims seriously. I think it's hard to have a meaningful diaglogue about race without including all races in it.

FuzzieAlum,
I totally agree with you. Like I posted before, the site is just a parody of how some white people think that having one or two black friends makes them "down"

. I think the site is hilarious and if anything, I would think white people would be offended...not black.
I do not, however, like the phrase "nigga please" that was used on the website especially now knowing that it was not created by a black person. White people have noooooo business using the N word in any way shape or form including nigger, niggress, niglette, nigga...WHATEVA. I don't care if it is just for fun. But that's a totally different thread

DELTAQTE · #15 10-30-2002, 07:22 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by NOWorNEVER

FuzzieAlum,
I totally agree with you. Like I posted before, the site is just a parody of how some white people think that having one or two black friends makes them "down" . I think the site is hilarious and if anything, I would think white people would be offended...not black.
I do not, however, like the phrase "nigga please" that was used on the website especially now knowing that it was not created by a black person. White people have noooooo business using the N word in any way shape or form including nigger, niggress, niglette, nigga...WHATEVA. I don't care if it is just for fun. But that's a totally different thread

Good points everybody! I like the site, I didn't see the "nigga please" part though, I'm like "ok slow your roll!"

Speaking of using words similar to nigga, remember a few years ago a principal or boss said to his employee to stop acting "niggardly" or something like that and got fired? It's really a word and has a meaning but what an idiot for picking that word to prove his point

QTE