Parties Mocking Blacks Spark Outrage

Newsday ^ | 1/31/07 | BRUCE SMITH

[kiriath_jearim]

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- White students at Tarleton State University in Texas hold a party in which they dress in gang gear and drink malt liquor from paper bags. A white Clemson University student attends a bash in blackface over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. A fraternity at Johns Hopkins University invites partygoers to wear "bling bling" grills, or shiny metal caps on their teeth.

From Connecticut to Colorado, "gangsta" theme parties thrown by whites are drawing the ire of college officials and heated complaints from black and white students who say the antics conjure the worst racial stereotypes.

University officials, the NAACP and others have condemned the parties as insulting and inexcusable under any circumstances. At the same time, some black academics said they were not surprised, given the popularity of rap music among inner-city blacks and well-to-do suburban whites alike.

[The Blitherer]

Yeah, free speech is a b!tch, huh.

[bray]

Apparently that is only allowed on Black TV.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Volunteer]

I saw the photos on line at Smoking Gun....

These kids are just kind of stupid like... well, kids. It's just a dumb party idea.

[uncitizen]

It's sort of like those black comedians that mock white peoples voices and mannerisms. Only that's ok, while the other is not. /sarc

[stylin19a]

oh for the simpler days of Al Jolson

[Lusis]

Yet it's somehow okay when Dave Chappelle dresses up in whiteface and makes fun of white people.

[Cobra64]

I wonder what this loon thinks about all this.

[L98Fiero]

"It's sort of like those black comedians that mock white peoples voices and mannerisms."

Or like the bit I herad on XM yesterday.

The black comedian was commenting on the new president (Clinton at the time) and commented that it would be nice to have a black president.

He then launched into all the bad things the black president should do to whites including beating them and making them change their names.

The material was not so disturbing as the loud cheers of "YEAH!!" and many other shouts of approval from the black audience-members. My wife commented, "Oh my God, they REALLY hate us."

[bdfromlv]

WWFS (What Would Fity Say) for those not IN (fity cent the rapper)

[SeafoodGumbo]

Of course, it's perfectly okay for two black guys to make a major Hollywood movie where they portray ditzy blonde white women like in the movie "White Chicks."

[Tzimisce]

I don't see what the big deal is. White stereotypes are mocked every day on prime time television.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"It's sort of like those black comedians that mock white peoples voices and mannerisms. Only that's ok, while the other is not. /sarc"

exactly

[abovethefray]

Muslims outraged?

[CrawDaddyCA]

University officials, the NAACP and others have condemned the parties as insulting and inexcusable under any circumstances.

I don't get it, these kids were doing the exact same thing I see glorified in rap videos.

I did think the girl that padded her rear to resemble a black woman's was funny, though. Baby got back!!

[HitmanLV]

Wait till they hear about Joe Biden.

[TXBubba]

"gangsta" theme parties thrown by whites are drawing the ire of college officials and heated complaints from black and white students who say the antics conjure the worst racial stereotypes.

And where did they get these ideas for "racial stereotypes"?

[Cementjungle]

Will toga parties be deemed offensive to Greeks?

[dljordan]

AHHHH! STOP THAT!!!

[canuck_conservative]

Yeah, like we're making this stuff up ...