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Black Students Beat Piñata Shaped Like White Woman (at the University of Memphis)
The College Fix / Fox News ^ | April 17, 2012

Posted on 04/21/2012 5:32:18 AM PDT by Zakeet

A piñata shaped like a white woman was strung up to a tree at the University of Memphis, then African-American students took turns beating it with a stick.

Where is Al Sharpton when you need him? Isn’t this a shocking case of racism?

No, actually it isn’t. Turns out the students involved were mere grade school kids, brought on campus for a special “Luau” party sponsored by the university. The piñata was supposed to represent a hula dancer.

“We want to assure our community that no racial or gender animosity was intended,” said a university spokesperson.

At worst, this seems like a bad case of multicultural confusion. (Hawaiian luau + Mexican-style piñata = what cultural tradition exactly?)

Luckily, in this case, the racial dynamics were not reversed, with white students and a black piñata strung up to a tree. Imagine the controversy that would have generated.

Nevertheless, the university was compelled to explain itself when the picture started generating backlash after it was posted online.

It’s a sad thing when a few kids can’t swing at a piñata without unleashing an avalanche of racial grievances. But that’s the reality we live in.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: blackkk; dncracismatwork; dojvscrackers; florida; georgezimmerman; holderspeople; memphis; race; racism; tennessee; trayvonmartin; umemphisracism
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To: blackdog; stylecouncilor

LOL


81 posted on 04/21/2012 12:36:07 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: Whats-wrong-with-the-truth

“So what you’re saying is because you believe he’s bought the media’s spin on the whole trayvon fiasco Manning’s opinions about blacks provoking whites to riot are wrong?”
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Not really, I was just so disappointed that he would buy the media line on this so easily that I tuned him out. Maybe I will read what he has to say later but it seemed as though he had betrayed everything I thought he stood for.

I agree that he has been mostly dead on in the past but finding him jumping on the bandwagon against Zimmerman was as though I had read Thomas Sowell’s column and found him in support of Obamacare. I remember talking to one young man once who told me about coming home to find his wife in bed WITH ANOTHER WOMAN. I imagine he probably felt about the same way I did at seeing Manning calling Zimmerman a murderer.


82 posted on 04/21/2012 12:36:25 PM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: Zakeet
Where is Al Sharpton when you need him?

Oh, he would be there if the white kids hung a noose from a tree.

83 posted on 04/21/2012 12:49:54 PM PDT by Nachoman (I HOPE we CHANGE presidents.)
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To: LibsRJerks

She felt the issue of childhood obesity was very wimpy on the part of Michelle — who could have used her position to do so much more good than she has.


I did not expect a radical Black woman to address the real problems of the left’s doctrines that are demoralizing, enraging and launching children into a life of dehumanization, crime and death. She has spent her life promoting all that thinking darkness is Black power. But I have studied the subject for a long time with great men like Thomas Sowell.

But I can see how your friend may have hoped Michelle would be loving and wise to see through what is happening. I think honorable people who went along with Obama and Michelle did not realize they were Nation of Islam type people nor do they understand what that means in terms of a dark, racist anti-American mentality. What a combination of social and political ideologies - communism and black racism! That is a promise to make everything worse.


84 posted on 04/21/2012 12:51:08 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse; reasonisfaith; khelus; liberalh8ter; ladyjane; duffee
I have to agree. We Caucasians have kept our mouths shut and in doing so, have let ourselves be railroaded. While I personally don't know anyone who possesses any “white guilt”, I also don't know anyone who has personally and publicly confronted the Sharpton’s and Jackson's with cold, hard facts. It's time that we put a stop to this nonsense.
85 posted on 04/21/2012 1:30:35 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: Zakeet

I’m about to the point where I think white people should start a few race riots when things like this happen. I’m starting to feel like the kid who’s always getting beat up by bullies because he never fights back.


86 posted on 04/21/2012 1:45:11 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: Kenton

Hoo-RAH!


87 posted on 04/21/2012 1:50:23 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Dis button is "S" for Splort. Don't make me use dis button! ~~ Unknown Kitteh)
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To: Zakeet

Did anyone tell the kids it looks like Obama’s mother?


88 posted on 04/21/2012 1:51:44 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (FUMR)
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To: COBOL2Java

If I had a daughter who went to University of Memphis, she’d look a lot like that pinata............


89 posted on 04/21/2012 2:13:53 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: windcliff

Unless the pinata had a very wide bottom, I’d say the black males wouldn’t hit it.


90 posted on 04/21/2012 2:17:42 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

Two decades of military experience would teach you first how to identify your enemy.


91 posted on 04/21/2012 2:22:19 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: liberalh8ter

Skin color was created by God.

Al Sharpton is not merely a liar—he’s a professional liar. Jesse Jackson is the same thing.

Al Sharpton doesn’t define the battle. If Sharpton and Jackson are trying to say the fight is between blacks and whites, you can bet your bottom dollar that the fight is really something vastly different.


92 posted on 04/21/2012 2:26:10 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: Monkey Face
i can see why
93 posted on 04/21/2012 3:14:54 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: blackdog

LOL


94 posted on 04/21/2012 3:36:18 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: Safetgiver

You got me. I was thinking “twinkle” and you were thinking “tinkle”.


95 posted on 04/21/2012 3:40:32 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Zakeet

Come to Texas, MF.


96 posted on 04/21/2012 6:02:50 PM PDT by nixonsnose (Let's see all you lawyers argue your way out of hell.)
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To: edpc

Actually, thats a good photo. Will help when CWII starts.


97 posted on 04/21/2012 6:04:26 PM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: khelus

Those are similar kinds we use some times at our family parties. Don’t have to be Hispanic to enjoy pinatas.
Some great ones can be found in Mexican markets.
At good prices.

Our younger granddaughters would be somewhat upset at whacking ‘Dora’ or ‘Hello Kitty’ to death - - - actually, watching their older cousins eventually do the ‘dirty deed.’


98 posted on 04/21/2012 6:36:39 PM PDT by USARightSide ( SUPPORTING O U R TROOPS)
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To: khelus

You are so right. Go to any pinata store.... there aren’t many little white girls or boys. They’re mostly festive designs or animals. Or a clown.


99 posted on 04/21/2012 6:55:35 PM PDT by freeagle
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To: freeagle; khelus
You are so right. Go to any pinata store.... there aren’t many little white girls or boys. They’re mostly festive designs or animals. Or a clown.

When I was a kid, the pinata we whacked was a donkey, as I recall.

100 posted on 04/21/2012 6:59:31 PM PDT by thecodont
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