Like clockwork after every Halloween, it's time for the annual "fired for wearing blackface" wave.
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Video: Teacher suspended after wearing blackface on Halloween while rapping as Common
- Thread starter ElectricBlanketFire
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How do people still do this... Fucking stupid racist imbeciles.
In the year of our Lord 2019 I can only assume they're doing it on purpose.
In the year of our Lord 2019 I can only assume they're doing it on purpose.
::SIGH::
It feels like the only thing this guy knows about Common is the fact that he's the face of Microsoft ads right now.
In class and not at some dumb party.
I really can't imagine the isolated lives some people lead, especially if that guy's a teacher and has all sorts of families coming through over the years.
I really can't imagine the isolated lives some people lead, especially if that guy's a teacher and has all sorts of families coming through over the years.
Damn, I wish I could redo my school years with today's technology - because there's some wildly racist shit from teachers I experienced that I would have loved to capture on film.
User Banned (Permanent): Defending blackface; a history of egregious infractions
Eh. Poor judgment, but I don't think he meant any harm.
whew.
could be said about most people doing black face. they rarely intend to harm.
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Why does this keep happening? There have been quite a few cautionary tales very recently that were well publicized. How far do you have to have your head buried to even consider this a good idea?
I'm sure most don't mean any harm - but in 2019, how can someone be this ignorant on the subject? Like, even if one doesn't have a problem with it, how can they not have heard what the consequences are for doing it?
I will never let that shit go.
They know what they're doing. Every. Single. Time.
"Those people that did it then, they're racist, I'll admit it. But I'm a good person, I'm a teacher! My kids love me! So when I do it, it's not racist".
It's racist.
intent does not negate the damage. I run over your foot, whether it was malicious or accidental yous till have a broken foot
I was initially confused on how someone could be a Common fan and do Blackface but this dork's only source of reference is a Microsoft commercial, so it makes sense.
Yes, he didn't mean any harm when he was jivespeaking while impersonating a rapper who doesn't jivespeak. This impersonation was already racist without the Blackface.
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I'm just trying to imagine a co-worker showing up to the office and nobody at the very least warning him he's about to lose his job, let alone explaining why what he's doing is terrible.
why is he moving around like a ps2 in-game cinematic
these people trip me out
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these people trip me out
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Incredible display of idiocy.
I think we have a number on this forum that would be down with the "it's just a joke, not all jokes have to be for everyone" line if it didn't cop them a ban.
You know he was getting ready this morning thinking about "I am about to reach these kids"
Damn. I wanted to sarcastically say that someone was going to trot out the old "we don't know what's in his heart" bit and you show up and drop it in the thread fast as hell.
If you're racist because it's how you were raised, or racist because you don't know better, or racist because you never met any black people to tell you what is ok and what is not, or racist because you hate black people, or racist ironically, you are still racist.
Could be another reason why education sucks so much in this country.
I know a lot of idiots that went on to become teachers. You don't actually have to be smart to be one.
