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Why The ORIGINAL "Harlem Shake" Didn't Go Viral

hpqp says...

"Racist stereotype"? So, black people can't dance without being.. racist? It would be very, very different if this were a bunch of whites in blackface making fun of a dance move originating in African-American culture, of course, but that is not what it is.
As for your first sentence, please link us to a yt video of yourself proving how such moves require little to no skill.

Chinspinigcra said:

None of the moves require anything but the most base level of skill, and some require none. Futhermore, the choreography is horrendous as almost no moves flows logically to the next and nothing follows the music. Thanks for perpetuating a racist stereotype once again, sift.

Kai the homeless hitchhiker saves the day!

chingalera says...

..."a man claiming he's Jesus....plows, balh blah blah, ....because he was black..."

Great opener there, ya dickweed cunt reporter.
Reiterate a few more times ya shitbrain, the words, "Black", "African-American", then get to the gyst. Uhhhh, the guy snapped, it was NOT race-related, and who gives a fuck who he happened to target on this day he decided to take his sociopathic shit out on the world. Glad hippie-Axe-boy was thereand saved the fucking day with his damn tool.

Fuck, I hate the news.

Colin Powell calls out Republican racism

Actual Gun/Violent Crime Statistics - (U.S.A. vs U.K.)

aaronfr says...

Wait! What?

"The US Census declared that in 2010 15.1% of the general population lived in poverty:
9.9% of all non-Hispanic white persons
27.4% of all black persons."

US Population by Race:
White or European American 223,553,265 72.4 %
Black or African American 38,929,319 12.6 %

# of poor white people = 22,131,773
# of poor black people = 10,666,633

I think your mom thinks you're racist because you probably kind of are and facts don't seem to factor in it.

shatterdrose said:

My mom thinks me using facts is racist. Poor people tend to be black.

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MonkeySpank says...

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Joe Scarborough reacts to Romney clip

Xaielao says...

As bad as this is for republicans, what is worse is that their voting block continues to shrink. If they lose this one, four years from now the number of people willing to vote for them will be even less, unless they do a complete 180 and start supporting younger people, women, African Americans, gays and especially Latinos. Trying to prevent these people from voting isn't going to work (as shown by all the state courts who have shut such efforts down, or are in the process of doing so). And the amount of money they can throw around won't matter if they cant get more than 1/3 of the country to vote for them. As the years roll on even their solid red states will begin to switch. We've already started seeing this with states like Virginia, Illinois and others who were very red until the last election.

Dick will make you slap somebody!

silvercord says...

Oh, and, "Vagina Power" is an Atlanta based Public-access television show hosted by Alexyss K. Tylor, an African American woman. Aimed primarily for a female African American audience, the show mainly consists of Tylor speaking frankly and openly about various love and relationship issues in the African American community. Tylor is known for her very outspoken and in-your-face way of speaking, colorful vocabulary, and off-the-wall analogies. Alexyss also has a significant presence on YouTube, although a non-trivial portion of videos in this channel contain product endorsements or other material not entirely germane to her ideology.

Not a Christian TV show.

RNC Attendees Taunt African-Americans As Zoo Animals

NetRunner says...

So you're saying you think there's a situation in which throwing peanuts at someone and saying "this is how we feed the animals" is acceptable behavior?

Part of why I sorta just view the entire conservative jihad as one giant threat to mankind is this way you guys always rally around people you identify as part of your tribe, no matter what kind of horrible thing they've done.

The only thing you guys condemn your own for is ideological apostasy -- bigotry, corruption, cruelty, even murder doesn't really seem to bother conservatives, at least when it's done by a conservative. But if a conservative says the rich should pay more taxes, or that global warming is real, or that gay people have the right to legally marry -- if they do something like that, then you'll immediately grab your torches and pitchforks and run the guy out of town.

>> ^bobknight33:

You and I don't know why they threw peanuts.

RNC Attendees Taunt African-Americans As Zoo Animals

bobknight33 says...

You and I don't know why they threw peanuts. They were not interviewed and given a chance to explain themselves.
Quit jumping to conclusions and making an ass of your self like with CNN and the RNC. I was just asking a valid question.

Too much over reacting by everybody.
>> ^VoodooV:

>> ^bobknight33:
Is the hatred against the camera operator or the leftest media?

oh so it's acceptable to call a fellow human being an animal if they disagree with your political ideology.
no matter how you spin it, it's still unacceptable. So fuck off Bob

Police officer deals with open carry activist

ctrlaltbleach says...

This is all about getting a reaction. As gun happy of a Nation we seem to be I have managed to go through life never really publicly seeing them. In my interactions with firearms they have always been kind of the dirty little secret you hide at home. I remember how shocked I was to see soldiers carry automatic riffles in a Paris train station. So honestly if I had seen these two gentlemen out in about carrying these weapons I would of been freaked out.

I'm very surprised the officer did not get out of the car with his gun drawn. I know were suppose to be a gun tolerant society but how did that officer know that they were not about to go on some kind of rampage? I hate to bring race into it but was it because they were white? I have to doubt this is how they would of reacted if the two civilians had been African American. Which is odd because and I may be wrong about this but every time I hear about a mass killing in America the suspect/s is/are usually white.

Why Dave Chappelle Quit Illuminati

wraith says...

Hm. Ok. I should have guessed that because I singled out African Americans and my assumption that some, being unable to know where in Africa their ancestors were abducted from, tend to see a continent of 57 Nations and dozens of ethnicities and religions as "their homeland", I would be called a racist.

That's the internet for you. :-)

Have you ever even considered that I was trying to comment upon a feature of some people that I did not understand because I don't share it? I do not feel any connection to any place my ancestors might have lived in the same way that I am not proud of any of their achievements and not ashamed by any of their failings. They are not me.

Why Dave Chappelle Quit Illuminati

ex-jedi says...

I'm Black and I don't have much interest in where my ancestors came from. My brother & sisters don't either (& I mean my actual brother & sisters). I can't think of any of my black friends who have any interest in a pilgrimage to their homeland. Some of them pop back to see the relatives sometimes, but that's about it.

However if I go to any big city over here in Europe it's brimming with, mainly American, people who've come to the old country to trace their roots. And I've met people of many shades and nationalities who've arrived here to do that. It's not the bastion of any one race. Don't take a common human impulse you've observed in people who by coincidence are black and tag it to them alone to form part of a 'but black people is weird innit' narrative. This kind of thing makes me sleepy.


>> ^wraith:

A question that always bothered me and that has almost nothing to do with this video: Why do so many African Americans think they have to go to Africa to find their roots? In Europe, in all countries except France, 99% of African people are really first or second generation immigrants from one of the dozens of Nations in Africa.
They have relatives living there.
I understand that.
African Americans have their roots as much in "Africa", as I have my roots in....I don't even know...Germany? France? Russia? Hungary?
I don't even know where my ancestors lived three hundred years ago.
And I don't care.
I don't get it.

wraith (Member Profile)

ex-jedi says...

In reply to this comment by wraith:
A question that always bothered me and that has almost nothing to do with this video: Why do so many African Americans think they have to go to Africa to find their roots? In Europe, in all countries except France, 99% of African people are really first or second generation immigrants from one of the dozens of Nations in Africa.

They have relatives living there.

I understand that.

African Americans have their roots as much in "Africa", as I have my roots in....I don't even know...Germany? France? Russia? Hungary?

I don't even know where my ancestors lived three hundred years ago.

And I don't care.

I don't get it.


I live in England and we are full of Americans & others who's ancestors came from here returning to trace their roots. Same in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and everywhere. It's not a black phenomenon. I as an official negro have no desire to return to my 'homeland'. But it's a pretty common unremarkable and universal human desire.

Why Dave Chappelle Quit Illuminati

bigbikeman says...

As a white guy from europe, I feel the same way about my heritage: ie who cares?



BUT. There's some social context here, and context is everything. I could go on about it, but I think you know what the salient part is (slavery); you can research it and think about it yourself. I don't know what it's like to be an african american, but I imagine it plays a huge factor in identity and when shit gets heavy, one starts thinking about that stuff. His return to Africa isn't surprising at all, even if I don't fully understand it the way he does.





>> ^wraith:

A question that always bothered me and that has almost nothing to do with this video: Why do so many African Americans think they have to go to Africa to find their roots? In Europe, in all countries except France, 99% of African people are really first or second generation immigrants from one of the dozens of Nations in Africa.
They have relatives living there.
I understand that.
African Americans have their roots as much in "Africa", as I have my roots in....I don't even know...Germany? France? Russia? Hungary?
I don't even know where my ancestors lived three hundred years ago.
And I don't care.
I don't get it.

Why Dave Chappelle Quit Illuminati

vaire2ube says...

Hey dude, ask the Jews the same question. You're concerned about tourism... but don't mind Zionism and false birthrights?

You answered your own, really -- first and second generation after being stolen from a country... or, you know, being a human being... might lead you to having a "curiosity" which may be "satisfied" by "exploring" said curiousity.

Or you may be an un-curious "supposer", a theorist who asks "why" without attempting to really understand when the information is right under their own nose... you are employing the tactic of insinuating by asking... you seem to have an issue with "blacks".

maybe try googling your questions?

as a "first worlder" you have that luxury to erase your ignorance at the swipe of some keys. too hard? maybe you should ask why people ask stupid questions in 2012.

that said, lol @ whoever upvoted your comment. you should be shamed into answering your own questions, not supported for your racism.. oh, i mean, "false presumptions". Since you are an admitted "regular" white guy.. i assume you think with your dick and not your brain... im white but i can use google and open my mind to "possibilities"... so i dont think you're all that regular, unless by regular you mean ignorant.


>> ^wraith:

A question that always bothered me and that has almost nothing to do with this video: Why do so many African Americans think they have to go to Africa to find their roots? In Europe, in all countries except France, 99% of African people are really first or second generation immigrants from one of the dozens of Nations in Africa.
They have relatives living there.
I understand that.
African Americans have their roots as much in "Africa", as I have my roots in....I don't even know...Germany? France? Russia? Hungary?
I don't even know where my ancestors lived three hundred years ago.
And I don't care.
I don't get it.



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