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Ohio University Group Speaks Out Against Racially Offensive Halloween Costumes On CNN

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Ohio University’s Students Teaching About Racism in Society spoke with CNN’s Randi Kaye about their viral campaign against racist Halloween costumes called “We’re a Culture, Not a Costume”. “We feel this is very important because a lot of students are unaware that dressing up or posing as a different culture is very offensive,” said STARS secretary Chrissa Bush. “We want to bring awareness to not only Athens, but to all over the world where people can stop making this mistake and start respecting all ethnicities,”

The group’s posters display various people of color holding up photos of racist costumes such as one with a white Dallas Cowboys cheerleader dressed up as Lil’ Wayne in blackface:





Kaye noted there were some who argued the group was being too sensitive. “Most of the people who do think that we are being too sensitive are people that probably haven’t been discriminated against and haven’t felt the hate and the anger that is being attached to these costumes,” Bush countered. “So we just want people to know that we are not trying to take the fun out of Halloween. we go to a university and halloween is a big deal here. it’s not that we are being too sensitive. we simply want to let people know that this does offend people and although you may not be offended, you may not be aware of that.”

Watch the group discuss its campaign against racist costumes on CNN below:

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    How pathetic… They should call themselves Occupy Ohio State University..
     I grew up with full racism. These students don’t know what racism is.  They seem to think racism is Jessy Jackson,  Al Sharpton, or Cornell West.

  • Anonymous

    what is the offensive costume supposed to be?  a vampire?  are we offending vampires now?  these kids need jobs or something to do with their time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/JOon-Hancocky/100001984456337 JOon Hancocky

    I think it’s the obfuscation of modern racism that allows you to say that. Someone from another culture representing one’s culture with stereotypes and racist representations should make them uncomfortable, because it’s clearly wrong. These are college campuses, where group behavior takes precedent over what’s right. This campaign has the courage to stand up to group thought and racist behavior, and should be applauded.

    It’s fantastic that segregation and slavery have, on their face, been ended. But racism is flourishing in the subtleties and subtexts of U.S. discourse and institutions.

  • bob saget

    people need to get a sense of humor instead of getting upset about a simple halloween costume this is absolutely ridiculous who cares what people dress as for halloween. People always need something to complain about 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Yes, we are a terrible nation and the only culture that we have as a nation is that of hatred and of a huge superiority complex over the rest of the world.  Shame on us… we are a horrible people.  

  • Anonymous

    I’ve mentioned this a couple of times before:  There is a short story available, on line, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., titled “Harrison Bergeron.”  About a future world that has gone overboard with politically correct.  Vonnegut wrote the story sometime before 1975, as that is when I read it, hence PC wasn’t even a thought or a
    Phrase then.  Yet, the prescient mind of Vonnegut saw this possibility and wrote a profound story.

    The short story can, also, be found in the Book–”Welcome to the Monkey House.”  Anyway, this short story had a serious affect on me as well as predicting the Politically Correct movement.  I highly recommend anyone here read it as it will rattle your cage too!

    Purveyor 

  • Anonymous

    I agree, thats why I am going as Muhammed kicking his wife, for halloween!  Boy, I sure know how to have fun!

  • scott tenorman

    is the girl in the picture supposed to be lil wayne? because i see nothing offensive there, shes not making fun of african americans in any way she is simply portraying lil wayne people need to quit being so sensitive. nobodys being racist or intentionally making fun of anyone suck it up people its halloween have fun instead of bitching about costumes that really dont matter these kids should do something else with their time.

  • Anonymous

    “If you can do it, it ain’t braggin”  Yogi Berra

    I suggest America quit trying to keep everybody else happy, leave them to their misery, then take care of own.  Not “separatism,” rather, a serene and confident Nationalism.

    Purveyor

  • scott tenorman

     i dont see any reason for anyone to care about that I dont understand why people let something so small and trivial bother them there are more important things to worry about than what someone has on for halloween

  • Anonymous

    Then, why are they all wearing those hideous fright masks?

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    I read it. I love the description in the beginning of the book where everyone was identical in stature, mentality and appearance.

    A liberals dream. I’m waiting for these Liberal Progressives and Obama to send the Government signal to control peoples thinking. It’s on its way November 9th when the Government takes over the complete broadcasting system with a test run.

    “TMP”

  • carlton

    all the people wearing the costumes in the pictures are white… has anyone ever wondered why every time someone white does something that is even remotely politically incorrect its racist? Dave Chappelle dresses up as a white person on some of his sketches, imagine what would happen if white people started saying we are a culture not a costume to that 

  • ceeza

    Whatever you just said sounded like boobity boop to me… Black face will get you a black eye..

    Ceeza

  • Tombergeron

    and this “movement” is a sign that this is where we are headed. everyone has to be politically correct and walk on eggshells around people to not hurt anyones feelings which is absolutely ridiculous 

  • Anonymous

    Boy-o-boy, thats one long, incoherent sentence?  I am not sure if I offended you, or not, anyway, I was just kidding around…

    One other thing, Scott Tenorman ate his parents!  Ha ha ha ha ha, haaa!

    Purveyor

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Notice they’re not at all concerned about costumes that m mimic so called “white culture”. Dressing up as a cowboy is still ok for example. They’re creating in environment where white people are separated from everyone else as somehow defective or in need of their “wisdom”.

    These people are just another example of the new racism.

  • Alligators

    nobodys stereotyping or grouping anyone here the girl in one picture is dressing up as lil wayne she isnt being an african american for halloween lil wayne just happens to be african american. another person is dressed as a geisha not as an asian geishas just happen to be asian. another is dressed as a terrorist bomber not a middle eastern person. nobody is saying everyone in the culture is like this they are simply taking on roles for one night of the year, they arent grouping entire cultures under one definition through stereotypes.

  • Anonymous

    If The Black culture wasn’t so damn sick and vilolent, maybe then they wouldn’t fall into a streotypical custom venue. Then again, rednecks have that same problem. Oh Wait! It’s okay to dis white rednecks but not blacks?Hmmmm….

  • Anonymous

    That story stuck with me all my life!  Curiously, about a month ago, I encouraged a Liberal friend, here on Mediaite, to read “Harrison Bergeron.”  He absolutely missed the depth and premonition of the story?

    Also, Limbaugh was talking about November 9th the other day.

    There was another short story in “Monkey House,” about a military aircraft that crashed in Communist controlled China, in 1947.  The Chinese War Lord made the American Colonel play chess for the lives of his men, his wife and children.  Each American was a chess piece and in chess, one must set raps and sacrifice pieces!

    Good Story.

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    “A salamander scurries, into flame to be destroyed, there is no other victim.”  

    There, sort that one out?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003067685333 Devin Moore
  • Anonymous

    So if a little white boy dresses up as Obama- that is racism?
    What about the movie White Chicks?

    People need to grow thicker skin.  The next shoe to drop will be French people saying we can’t make fun of them any more- then all we will have left are the Amish- as they will never know we are making fun of them. 

  • ceeza

    I take it back…. It will get you TWO black eyes..

    Ceeza

  • Anonymous

    Nice to make your acquaintance TOM,  

    (Is it a coincidence that your pseudonym, is similar to the name of the short story I recommend?)

    I remember first hearing about PC, back in, oh, 1990.  Then it was informal and mocked by the Left.  It is safe to say that PC is now, a somewhat formalized political/social tool and has come a long way…

    You really must read the short story I mentioned above, by Vonnegut.  You will never forget it!

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Jeremy Clarkson (well known British Tory (conservative)) sez:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=9INBcpcjkJY 

    Australians seem to agree:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1aRzoXRPuA

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Tom, no one will ever say that I’m politically correct. I haven’t bought into that liberal nonsense.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    OK, I agree with you.  I think most people in the immediate vicinity agree with you too.  Hence, the references to “politically correct.”

    BUT, for some reason, I am wary of you, as if you’ve got a dagger behind your back?  You are not telling the whole story, so to speak?

  • Anonymous

    Could care less about the story or your idiotic analogy. But the campaign is from OHIO UNIVERSITY not The Ohio State University. 

    One is located in Athens, Ohio. One is located in Columbus, Ohio. The only connection to each other is the state they are located in. If you can’t pay attention to details, places, words, or voices. Maybe you should just leave the commenting those who can?

  • Anonymous

    the uproar against these sensitivity crybabies on yahoo yesterday was beyond viral.

    “…“Most of the people who do think that we are being too sensitive are
    people that probably haven’t been discriminated against and haven’t felt
    the hate and the anger that is being attached to these costumes,”..”

    I am discriminated against every day because I am an old white guy. Didn’t somebody figure out that the discrimination has flipped 180 degrees in the last 15-20 years? There should be some kind of wakeup call about this very real situation. It goes both ways unless reverse agism, racism, and culturalism is OK???

    BTW, I wouldn’t mind if somebody dress up as an old white guy (with depends) for Halloween. It;s their right, of course.

  • Anonymous

    bravo, and one of my favorite movies is ‘white chicks’ I LMAO every time I watch it.

  • lazzzlo

    As a person who has been to that party, late 80s, that is 1 wild party.  There were no rules back then and there probably should have been.

    Ten to fifteen thousand + people all occupying a single stretch of 1 road and there was no Jaggermeister left in the town.

    Personally, I’m just going to say that that was rather intense and you would or wouldn’t be surprised what can happen.

    Our group got 4th place in the costume party.

  • lazzzlo

    Athens Ohio is in the middle of farm country…back then the racial mix was almost nil.  However, there was never a question of people mocking other races.

    Everyone was putting on masks so they could debauch.

    Personally, I’d question all the white people that liked to….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Okay, I changed the university  which in meaningless.  The top 110  U’s are basically clones. With123 of the top 110 Universities charging fifty grand a year they’re cloned even tighter. At least until they’re death.

  • lazzzlo

    That was the spirit of it but it never was meant to offend one group…it was meant to offend all groups.

  • Dummy123

    Does Bill Maher EVER speak about Obama without doing a ghetto reference or voice?
    Is there a black comic that doesn’t do the lame whitey voice and routine??
    These black girls should be angry that ‘violent ghetto black’ is so cool and hip in cultures around the world!

     

  • lazzzlo

    Back then, the thing that shocked me was actions that I now might consider rape.

  • Regular guy

    Mr Crugnale, why are you deleting my posts on the Goldie Taylor post you wrote?

  • Scott tenorman

    yeah god forbid i dont use punctuation i was agreeing with you anyway if you wanna get technical about punctuation you used one too many commas 

  • Anonymous

    Another offended group? Sheesh. Suck it up and move on. Maybe get a job to keep yourselves busy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    The irony being that they’re discriminating against whites by singling them out. 

  • Anonymous

    You, “politically correct?”  Actually folks, he’s a limp wristed girlie man!  LOL

    I was watching FOX this morning and a group of Muslim students who attend a Catholic University are demanding the school remove any signs (crosses) and images of Christianity?   I’d say that constitutes a “politically correct” demand?

    What proponents of the PC “nonsense” don’t seem to grasp, is that sooner or later “their Ox will be gored.”  Meaning, they took away cigarettes in bars, and now they want to tell people what and how to eat.  Tomorrow it will be my motorcycle, next thing kayaks in Boulder Canyon. (People could drown!)

    PC really is “the slippery slope.”

    Purveyor 

  • Anonymous

    Great for OU- a University often best known for it’s alcohol abuse, student arrests at Halloween, and boasts a paltry 4.5% black student body representation.


    “Ohio University Reigns As The Nation’s Top Party School ”

    First Posted: 8/1/11 01:57 PM

    “Nearly 100 arrested during party near Ohio University”
    Published: Sunday, May 08, 2011

    ATHENS, Ohio — Authorities say nearly 100 people were arrested for alcohol-related offenses during an annual day of house parties along a street near Ohio University.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Hey, 50,000 people die in Auto accidents every year. Lets ban rubber tires.

    “TMP”

  • Cecelia

    I doubt you’ll hear any peeps from anyone about the Hunt daughters and their parody of Herman Cain’s ad. 

    This all seems completely innocuous to me and ALWAYS extreme subjective and selective.

  • Ralph

    It isn’t necessary to go overboard, but it is good to keep sensitivities in mind when designing Halloween constumes.  People want to dress up like homeless people or prostitutes or pimps and don’t immediately see how these get-ups can offend others.  It’s not just obvious things like blacks and hispanics and asians.  While perfect political correctness is not required, the sad truth is that what will get you the biggest laugh is likely going to be something that is way wrong.

  • lazzzlo

    Oh lighten up…it’s an amazing unruly party that has been going on for 30 or 40 years each Halloween.  The kids let loose and for the most part it is ungoverned.  The city turns a blind eye and no one is forced, other than peer pressure, to participate.

    Eventually it gets out of hand and the cops clear the streets.

    We do this in Daytona Beach with adults on motorcycles twice a year and people die here.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Someday a younger you will be telling you you didn’t matter. Then you’ll understand.

  • Sean68

    You’re perpetuating the stereotype that black people respond to anger with violence.

  • Dummy123

    I see you dressed as a ‘traffic cone’ this Halloween standing on the Freeway…please.

  • Sean68

    Those girls would impose by force what they can’t by shame. Universities are filled with petit kommissars of this type.

  • Anonymous

    We do this in Daytona Beach with adults on motorcycles twice a year and people die here. ”

    Too bad it hasn’t claimed you.

  • Ralph

    Usually they just refuse to have sex with you until you comply.

  • Sean68

    Funny she’s dressing up as a mime, a stereotypically FRENCH occupation frequently maliciously by those who mock the French. I wonder if she’ll where the black and white striped outfit and a little beret.

  • Ralph

    Go as a Hillbilly.  Everybody hates Hillbillys.

  • Sean68

    that should have read “frequently used maliciously” by those attempting to mock…

  • Anonymous

    I see you will put cellophane over your face and go as a lib loser!

  • ScarredReality

    I haven’t read it, but it sounds really intriguing.  I’m definitely going to get it.  Anything taken to the extreme is dangerous.

  • Sean68

    How come there’s no real campus movement to end slavery in Africa like there was in the 80s to end Apartheid in South Africa? That’s a hypothetical question, by the way. I know exactly why there isn’t.

  • Sean68

    The term “pimp” is a compliment in much of the black community, if there most popular artform, rap music, is anything to go on.

  • ScarredReality

    Thank god someone finally had the balls to say it.  I am a short, blonde, white girl with a disability.  It’s annoying, and once in a while it does become rude, but for the most part, it’s all in fun.  But the fact that it’s ok to say those things to me but I am not allowed to do the same has always bugged the crap out of me.  I saw this coming when parents suddenly couldn’t spank their kids anymore, and crazy california moms kept saying ‘you have to talk to your child and explain what they are doing wrong and why and yada yada yada.’  I was spanked til I was in my teens, and I think I turned out fine.

  • ScarredReality

    Sometimes I think it’s politically incorrect to even be white anymore.

  • Sean68

    Anti-racism = anti-white. It’s an ideological weapon of the left. They, even the white ones, could not care less about black racism; in fact, most of them don’t even believe blacks can be racist, since they have an ideological definition of that term.

  • Anonymous

    Is that CEEZA’s problem, he’s Black and he’s mad?  You saw the movie, now see the video!  I was ignoring him as he wasn’t making any sense.

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Harrison Bergeron, is an extremely handsome man, hence, he must wear a partial masque, along with other attractive people.  He is also very athletic and must wear extra weights to limit his athleticism.

    Here is the kicker:  Harrison is very bright, and those who are smart must have an ear implant that scatters their thoughts every 20 or 30 seconds so as to balance out the intellect in society.

    God, it will give you the creeps!  It is a PC nightmare!

    Apparently, they made a movie, don’t bother, either find the short story or get the book.

    Sincerely, Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    OK, I owe you an apology—I am sorry.

    I guess I misjudged you and your comments.  So too have I become jaded and suspicious?  Ouch!

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    At least ten or so years ago, when Ted Danson was dating Whoopi Goldberg, Danson went to a party in Black Face!  However, he was with Whoopie who could run interference for him, so to speak.

    You know, when I was a kid in Wisconsin, everybody told Polack jokes.  That’s because they were all Polack’s, Germans and Norwegians around Green Bay!  LOL

  • Anonymous

    Furthermore, I am sure that I am the only one who knows who “Scott Tenorman” is?  Not only that, I’ve actually been to South Park.  It is a real place…

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    The Pubic hair guy, $10 a handful.

    “TMP”

  • Sean68

    I don’t know what he is; I just know what he’s suggesting.

  • lazzzlo

    I’m local, we enjoy tourism and the deaths add to the mystique.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Malone/100002475802402 Tim Malone

    We’re the only country in the world where someone from Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, China or the Congo can come here illegally and be given free housing, health care, food, education and money, yet racism is “flourishing”? Sure, typical guilt ridden white leftist pansy.

  • Anonymous

    It’s good to be at University
    They invented a new form of discrimination, one that no one had ever experienced before.  I see a Nobel in their future.  

    America still dreams big and builds bigger… what the hell is MSNBC whining about.

  • Anonymous

    Sharpton and Jesse are super pissed that they may have to compete against a brand new form of discrimination.  They are petitioning the Administration for subsidies to offset any future losses to this new discrimination.

  • lazzzlo

    People come from far and wide to be a part of a group; whether they are kids in masks or “bikers” on Harleys.

    The locals accommodate the large groups.  And yeah, there are fights and thefts and deaths.

    You also have the point to not participate.  The large groups cause the fights.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Malone/100002475802402 Tim Malone

    What about leprechauns? Outside of the Jews no one on the planet has been as oppressed as the Irish yet every year I see people dressing like leprechauns, getting drunk, getting into fights and disrespecting the Irish. When I see this it reminds me of Cromwell and the Great Famine which hurts my feelings and I think that dressing as a leprechaun on Halloween should be considered a hate crime. Waaaaaahhhhhh!!!

    I’m sure these girls will find great jobs with their sociology degrees when they graduate. Just kidding, they wont get work and wont be able to payoff all their student loans which will further crash the economy before the white taxpayers will have to bail them out, again. 

  • lazzzlo

    Oooh, I could tell you stories about dressing up as a “cracker” during Halloween.

  • lazzzlo

    Everyone should mock the French; mime is their best art form.

  • Anonymous

    This coming from the guy who apparently has no value in education? Nor the ability to properly read an article, listen to what people are saying, or put together a concise thought. But keep making your stupid analogies of two things that have nothing to do with each other….It seems to be working well for you. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    hmmm  I am down in Port Orange and hardly notice bike week except a lot of neighbors seem to pull Harley’s out of their attics coz you sure don’t see them for the rest of the year…

  • lazzzlo

    Our Alice was 6 foot 4 and 250 lbs with white stockings, a blue skirt jump over and a basket full of flowers and a moustache.

    We had Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Rabbit; I was the Cheshire Cat…we also had the mouse and the March Hare…we also had 1 guy who only wanted to be a character from the TV show…Beauty and the Beast. It got complicated. There was a lot of papier mache work happening.

  • lazzzlo

    And there you have it.  I might have embellished the fights a bit but there were 6 deaths with the idiot drivers on the roads last month.

  • Anonymous

    WOW!  That’s the episode…

    I am embarrassed by my presumption, yet, pleased that others watch what I think is a very clever and insightful comedy cartoon.

    I still like the episode where Jimbo and Ned take the boys huntin.  ”It’s comin right at you”!  They find, and KILL Scuzzlebutt, plus the Volcano erupts, duck and cover…LOL

    I even have an Eric Cartman “Respect my authoritay” coffee mug I bought in South Park!

    If asked, I will deny this conversation took place.  LOL

  • lazzzlo

    T’is a racial slur that surely hasn’t been explored enough in American society.

  • unmutual

    What a lot of crap. Liberals love their victimhood status. It is a badge of honor for them.

    Toughen up and grow a spine. boo hoo for you!

  • Anonymous

    LAZZZLO,

    I was devastated to find out my wife was having an affair but, by turning to religion, I was soon able to come to terms with the whole thing.  I converted to Islam, and were stoning her in the morning!Purveyor

  • lazzzlo

    Yikes!

    Wear a mask.

  • lazzzlo

    See now it’s no fun.  Also, I actually love some of the best of French art plus it is my 2nd language.

  • Anonymous

    Liberals really can take the fun out of any occasion.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    There’s really not much to read with any of these articles.  Dream on.

  • Cielofortin

    wait i don’t get it… the middle eastern kid is holding up a poster that says “this is who i am”… he’s a terrorist? and then this girl is gonna be a mine? isn’t she offending mines? those are real people… maybe even a culture- a community at least. and then, last question- a couple years i dressed up as a stereotypical mexican… but i am actually mexican as well, so, was i dissing myself?

  • ceeza

    Be careful purveyor ..Your true colors are shining through…

    Ceeza

  • ceeza

    The only thing I’m suggesting is personal responsibility… If you kayak in the Colorado canyon you could drown … If you walk outside in black face you could get a couple eye jammies..  You know the risk.. You know the dangers .. The decision is yours..

  • Sean68

    Wonderful.

  • Sean68

    Rivers can’t control themselves–oh.

  • Anonymous

    You calling SoThere out, are you Polly? I think we’d all like to see that happen, but you and most of your kind don’t have the stomach for that sort of thing.

    You on a motorcycle? The Darwin Awards in action!

  • Anonymous

    Now that’s a fine haiku to you too!

  • Anonymous

    Back when I was a kid, there was no such thing as ‘homeless’.  My sister dressed up as a ‘hobo’, though……and absolutely nothing terrible happened.

    It’s HALLOWEEN.   And the last thing that I”d worry about with my costume is whether or not some random hooker is offended.  BEING and actual hooker is offensive to me. Think that they’ll quit trolling sex for cash if I tell them that I’m offended?  Thought not.

    As to blackface, avoid it.  Had too many previous negative connotations, don’t need to bug others.  IT’s sort of rude.

    But beyond that, oftentimes people pick costumes because they LIKE the person that they’re immitating, not necessarily because they’re ‘making fun’.

    What are they going to do, legislate this?  It’s moronic.

  • Anonymous

    I used to ride with a guy named Wes, back in Wisconsin.  Wes was retired Navy Corpsman and older than us. He rode an 81 or 82 Suzuki 850 L, We Mad Max Cafe Riders, rode 900 Honda’s, 1000 Kawis, and 1000 Suzooks, the Sport Bikes of the era.  We were mad men, out on those lonely country roads.  We had a favorite road we called “Snake Road,” (Hwy D) through the town of Borth.  Actually, we had a lot of favorites!

    Anyway, there was a bridge where people would quietly and serenely fish, just after the first two sweepers.  Needless to say, we went a bit faster than Wes and by the time he went over the bridge he usually received nasty glares and mothers holding their crying children giving him the finger.  Ouch!

    Wes told me one day that he fully expected to come up the bridge someday and there would be a 10 year old kid in the middle of the road, twitching.  With a Zeb-Co rod and reel in one hand and Dunlop tire tracks across the kids chest!  LOL

    Ahh, those were our wonder years…  By the way,  I am still smooth and fast.

    Purveyor

  • ceeza

    @sean68   you misunderstand… Dress in black face or and SS officer or a Klansman since you seem to feel it’s infringing on you and purveyors freedoms so much that be people are against it.. You and purveyor have the right to be racist all you want .. It’s just strange to me that it hurts you guys so much that kids are speaking out against it..Scream sp*c and n*gger while running through Harlem for all i care.. Don’t be surprised with what happens is my point.  

  • Anonymous

    Don’t be presumptuous.  If you wish to question or engage me, then do so.  However, do not feign intellect by way of unfounded condescension.

    Receiving advice from a foole?  What more awaits me today?

    The Purveyor of Rhetoric

  • Anonymous

    NO COMMENT

  • Anonymous

    SEAN,

    The dialogue, (if that is what to call it) with CEEZA was pointless.  He was/is actually “looking for fight.” 

    There is another Surfer in Mediaite, named COBRA, who has a bit more depth and/or sophistication, but, is very similar in his bellicose rhetoric.  Moreover, there is no exchange of ideas.  Anyway, you did well in your response(s), without wasting too much of your time

    My Compliments

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    One major thing misisng in the raising of children these last couple of decades is telling them, “Sometimes, it’s not about YOU!”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    *LOL* I love how arrogant these little brats are: “Most of the people who do think that we are being too sensitive are
    people that probably haven’t been discriminated against and haven’t felt
    the hate and the anger that is being attached to these costumes,”

    Yes, you little brats, you’re the only ones who’ve ever been discriminated against. You poor, poor victims. Oh you’re such poor victims! And what astounding logic, people dress us as things they HATE for Halloween! Of course, that’s what the celebration is all about!

    Costume ARE caricatures! That’s the whole point. And they’re COSTUMES, you dress up as something you’re not. If these little whiny, race-baiting, self-victimizers don’t want to dress up for Halloween, fine nobody will care. You know what, they can all dress up as leprechauns! Amazingly, they didn’t make a poster for that Celtic cultural icon. I guess it’s okay if your costume is of a white culture.

  • Anonymous

    LAZZZLO,

    Have you ever had a beer at “The Last Resort?”  (The Tavern where the FDLE, arrested Eileen Wuornos)

    Maybe you could send me a T-Shirt?  LOL

  • Thuttysix

    Im black and if I see anyone in blackface tonight, im personally confronting them. Its not cool. The Wayan bros weren’t cool for dressing as white chicks and its not cool for someone to perpetuate an untrue stereotype. My pants don’t sag. I don’t wear jewelry. No one who lives around me does. Its idiotic quite frankly.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TNIIHAE5G3O5HMBOZFAZZWK3YY aa

    If a large area of white population all went black-faced would the crime rate go up?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    are they just focusing on racially insensitive costumes?

    How about white trash/hillbilly/trucker costumes, which you typically see lots of at college parties. Also, pedophile priests and pregnant nuns. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Johnson/100000190455903 Rick Johnson

    If the culture is embarrassing then change the culture. Do not get pissed at others because they use it against you.

  • WardMD

    So what’s LEFT for “costumes”?  Animals and Cartoon Characters?

    EVERYONE is a member of some Ethic Group (regardless of WHICH ethnic group that may be), so by THEIR “standards”, NO ONE can wear a costume depicting ANYONE (who is a member of ANY ethic group)?!

    What MORONS!

    It’s FUNNY to parody “famous people” for Halloween, JUST as it’s a COMPLIMENT to EMULATE a “famous person” (presuming we’re not talking about Linday Lohan, Paris Hilton, Michael Moore, etc.) in “Real Life”!

    JUST as I don’t expect Gifts from Friends and Family (other than, say, Christmas and my Birthday), I ALSO don’t equate someone in a Halloween Costume (any day EXCEPT Halloween) with the Costume’s persona the rest of the year!

    AND I managed to do that WITHOUT their “cause” against Halloween Costumes!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TNIIHAE5G3O5HMBOZFAZZWK3YY aa

    Why is it that the whiny suburban liberal white chick is the spokesperson for the emotional and ultra sensitive minority….White Guilt?  That is why there is an incompetent in the White House today.

  • Anonymous

    Athens is deep in the Hill Country of Ohio.  Yup.

  • WayyToSerious

    Sorry Chevy’s … no more birthday hats i guess…

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    They made a movie about Harrison Bergeron. It was pretty…………..bleh. Remember reading it in my high school elective reading class. I suggested the story to the teach.

    Here is the IMDb listing- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113264/

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    HEHEHE, sorry purveyor, I use that line when running large jobsites and the tension is building.

    RESPECT my AUTHORITIEY! Usually gets em laughing, those that know it.

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    Next thing you know the Muslims will create a slur to denounce anyone that calls their pseudo religion/statist/cult a pseudo religion/statist/cult. Oh wait, they already have.

    Islamaphobia or Islamaphobic. At least my Firefox spell checker has not been updated to include that made up word.

    There was an article I read about where in Europe, the author of the law to create hate speech legislation had said he did the world a huge disfavor. I will see if I can find it.

    Purveyor had it right, read the Bergeron story. Next thing you know the 200th amendment to the Constitution will require everyone to be painted blue at birth or something.

  • Anonymous

    When in doubt play that race card!  

  • nanny
  • Anonymous

    Typical – ceeza can’t understand plain English, much less a reference to modern literature. When one has lost an argument they will resort to name calling and/or violence. Also typical.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jenkem-Jones/100002605324529 Jenkem Jones

    Did anyone think to ask the vampires what they think?  I think the fellow in the picture is dressed up like a vampire.  I care a lot more about what the vampires think than I do about a bunch of spooks.

  • Sean68

    That was the thing about the Duke Lacrosse case. Regardless of the facts, those guy were already convicted of ideological crimes–like wearing glasses in china during the cultural revolution.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FUM3IS2BOWES5GE6ADDNXW3OT4 kcDesigner24

    Isn’t it racist that there isn’t a white poster? Come on people. You all seriously make me want to shoot myself in the face. Why won’t people stop being such pussies. They are not calling you a terrorist, they are just dressing like one. How come Dwayne Wade can do white face and it’s the greatest costume ever, but if I give myself a spray tan and go as Bill Cosby, now I’m racist. You all need to get the dicks out of your ass and realize everyone hates you because you are an douche bag, not because you have a different skin color. Stop playing the race card, no one cares anymore.

  • Debraecwards2004

    Ok… Maybe they’ve got a point…. But then, I think on Halloween– anything goes– especially at OU. I went to school there in the late 70′s and it was crazy fun. We’re still talking about it all these years later. I remember one friend didn’t have on a costume when he went into the bathroom and came out with the shower curtain wrapped around his neck–curtain rings and all. “Hey, I’m a shower curtain,” he said all up-town and back… Damn funniest thing I ever saw.

  • Peety_weety

    “Didn’t somebody figure out that the discrimination has flipped 180 degrees in the last 15-20 years?” …Yeah…it’s called Affirmative Action…our economy is proof of what happens when you put people in important roles based off of the color of skin and not qualifications…that sure took care of racism we nailed it on the head

  • Anonymous

    I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! LOL

    When I commented to HANOISTEVE, about him not counting, I knew you’d like that one! LOL

    Anyway, I had to find this old post to send this along , so you can disregard the bottom half.

    Purveyor…

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