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@blackgirlinmain
"Why are they tearing up their own community?" #keenepumpkinfest
@SaraJBenincasa
White people in New Hampshire really need to do some self-reflection and regulate their animal impulses in the wake of #keenepumpkinfest.
@BrFleurantin
Where are the leaders in the white community? They need to speak out #pumpkinfest
@kgosztola
How many of the defiant white youth causing mayhem & destruction come from fatherless families? #PumpkinRiot
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/whites-riot-over-pumpkins-in-nh-and-twitter-turns-it-into-epic-lesson-about-ferguson/
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One rioter, Steven French, told the Keene Sentinel that he traveled from Haverhill, Massachusetts to attend the festival because he knew it would be f*cking wicked.
Its just like a rush. Youre revolting from the cops, he continued. Its a blast to do things that youre not supposed to do.
The police viewed the behavior of French and his cohorts less favorably, barricading streets and firing tear gas into crowds in an effort to disperse them.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)I've been in big crowds and I've had too much beer. I've done some dumb stuff. But I've never done something like this.
Cirque du So-What
(25,949 posts)but I once did witness the real-time evolution of a mob, culminating in overturned vehicles. It was like a wave that came down the street, and I could almost feel some of those around me getting caught up in the fervor. Even in my inebriated state, I made a hasty retreat after the first car was flipped.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)and some guy cut in line in front of everyone at the Port-O-Potties, and it started a riot. Six people turned the Port-O-Potty over on him, door side down so that he couldn't get out and well, you can imagine how horrible that entire scene was.
I left. I wasn't about to be within a mile of the guy that got removed from there.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Linejumping for toilets? That's some shameful behaviour.
Initech
(100,081 posts)The Boston Brewing Company (makers of Samuel Adams) had just debuted the latest incarnation of their Utopia beer which topped out at 40%. And they had made the cardinal mistake of rolling out the samples at the end of the show on Friday night. I can tell you that a near riot almost broke out. That was one time where I was actually glad there were lots of police present, otherwise that could have turned really ugly really quickly.
The funny thing is that I bet that they still use footage from that night in their commercials.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)That's one reason why I try to avoid places where there are going to be lots of drunken revelers.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)but I just missed a couple of mini-riots in Korea. Some of my friends were pretty shook up, as they were just out to get drunk and have a good time when shit went sideways.
Submariner
(12,504 posts)NH has a long tradition of riots. The summer after JFK was assassinated I was up there as a 16 yr old, and the Hells Angels rode into Hampton Beach. Cop cars were turned over and lit on fire. Molotov cocktails were being tossed on everything along the seawall that could burn. It was nuts.
"Kill the Pigs" was the mantra of that era.
35 Years Ago, Hampton Beach Exploded In Hate
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/police/riots/fosters1999.htm
Hampton Beach Project -- The Riots of 1964 -- Historical Background
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/police/riots/chap1.htm
Hampton Beach Project -- The Riots of 1964 -- June 1 - July 1, 1965
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/police/riots/chap6.htm
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)RandySF
(58,933 posts)It was meant to be an event for families.
alp227
(32,034 posts)about "revolting from the cops."
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)That's the way it should be for everyone- except maybe a criminal on the run. It is a very sick society that treats particular groups as if they are.
My cousin's kid posted about Ferguson on the first night of rioting. One of his friends responded that he wished he was there. My impression was that it was a white kid romanticizing the riot. Apparently he's not alone.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)They were destroying private citizens' property, and ruining a family-oriented event.
rpannier
(24,330 posts)They should feel fortunate. If they'd been black, the police likely would have felt threatened and shot them.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I don't think anybody at the Ferguson protests was shot by cops, were they?
heaven05
(18,124 posts)right.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I'm not kidding.
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Gangstas don't go around saying 'live long and prosper,' fool.
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bravenak
(34,648 posts)I cannot stop laughing!!
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)There's a page dedicated to this phenomenon:
http://whitepeoplethrowinggangsigns.tumblr.com/
bravenak
(34,648 posts)This is serious!!!!!! I'm going to take a second look.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)Like OMG, seriously?
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I'm from L.A. Or do you think that black people are obliged to 'talk black'? That's disturbing the way my grammar and words usage is of such focus today. Sad shit right here.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)I grew up in a mostly white environment so I'm the perfect example of the Chappelle skit about music - I like Poison.
I wonder if the poster lives in/has lived in the USA? I know sometimes they only get the "hip hop" version of black America abroad so they are gob smacked when we speak/write "real proper like". Maybe it's that?
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Some people see us as caricatures. I have a heavy metal fetish myself. Don't know why. And alternative music. I cried when Kurt Cobain died, for days.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)He died and I was soooo upset - until my boyfriend at the time told me about rumblings in a country called Rwanda. He owned a radio station at the time and age orders to report anything coming out of there and told me he didn't want to hear another word about Cobain?
What a hater!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)All of my friends tried to help each other out. It seemed like everybody got all depressed that year and we all go put on something. Horrible time. Then the people came with skeletons of the victims of the genocide to our school. We were all disturbed. Then the holocaust museum came to town. Horrifying. But Cobain started the whole thing for us. Probably why we seemed so angsty to our parents. I found out that life was just hard. For everyone.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)Is a black person using valleyspeak less amusing than white people flashing gang signals, and if so, why?
Is it similar to the drag phenomenon, whereby men dressing up as women is funny, but women dressing up as men is not?
Feminists argue that men in drag is funny, because the men are debasing themselves by appropriating the dress of the inferior gender. They compare it to minstrelsy when white people donning blackface was considered funny. However, there were black minstrels as well (who were often preferred as being more "authentic" as well as black performers who got laughs by affecting a feeble impersonation of whites (the "zip coon" stereotype), so the analogy does not really hold up very well.
In that sense, one can perceive a difference between the performer and the performance being the butt of the joke. In the case of Zip Coon, the joke is in the hopeless inadequacy of the performer's attempts to appear white. In the case of the white blackface performer, the joke is the mannerisms themselves, the performance is intended to be representative, and the joke is aimed at black culture itself.
Drag performers distinguish between high and low drag (or drag seria and drag buffa). In the case of low/comedy drag, it is apparent that the performer is male, the joke is on him rather than on the female image he is attempting. The makeup is garish but not convincing, the gestures are camp and theatrical but not representationally female.
But serious drag is serious. Those performers are generally transgender, stunningly beautiful, and indistinguishable from any other female. There is no inadequacy in their attempt, and therefore no comedy.
In the case of white people flashing gang signals, the joke is on the white people. They are trying to look like tough black gangsters, when they are really namby pamby white boys from the suburbs. The joke is in their inadequate posturing to look like tough criminals. The unspoken text is that if a black person flashes a gang signal, that their attempt to look like a tough criminal is automatically considered authentic. This is the dilemma that has faced many a minority. Young Italian men used to sound off like Joe Pesci from Goodfellas and would strut like mafiosi. Doing so carries stigma, but it also carries swagger and machismo, and these are things that young men covet, whatever their ethnicity.
In the UK, politicians are mocked whenever they attempt to use working class accents to speak to that audience, but conversely, working class people who adopt posh accents are also mocked. However, in the US, a white person who sounds black is funny, whereas a black person who sounds white is not. I'm not sure how to account for that difference, perhaps nervousness/political correctness has something to do with it, perhaps its something more.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)make them seem stupid or to mock them in some way. Then those very same caricatures became a way if explaining why it is okay to treat black people as something undesirable. They say things like, 'if black people didn't speak, dress, act, in a certain way they would be willing to accept them.
There is not a history of us doing the same thing.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Ive never heard a black person make a statement like that.
It would be silly - as we have to fit into America.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Is a black person using valleyspeak less amusing than white people flashing gang signals, and if so, why?
That's not "valley speak". A lot of Americans say OMG Shut Up!
The majority in our country are white people.
It's called speaking "the language" and it opens doors with the dominant culture.
You can't appropriate the WASP culture in America - as it is our culture here. I believe you are in Africa - right? I seem to recall your screen name in regards to some of the white privilege threads and that stuck with me.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)Yes, but the first ones to say "OMG Shut Up!" were white, teenaged girls in the San Fernando valley.
I doubt that speaking valleyspeak will open many doors with the dominant culture. The overall impression that it creates is that the speaker is airheaded and ditzy. In particular the rising intonation towards the end tends to infuriate people. A lot of women who become professionals have to work hard to eliminate these speech patterns after using them throughout their entire adolescence.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)An Exec Director said it when I gave her some numbers my group is working on.
She was born and raised in NJ - MBA from Cornell.
I'm high level in telecom. Masters in Public Administration concentration in Homeland Security.
Try again.
Explaining.
How things work for black women in America.
You don't know how to fit in.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)I bet she said those numbers were so bodacious. Tubular, even.
And like, after you gave her those numbers, she was like totally mondo stoked.
Its depressing how much internet argument ends like this. This is my experience, which is completely unbeknownst to and therefore outside of any challenge by you. My experience validates my argument. QED.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)into online and textspeak thanks to saving a lot of wasted characters when typing. It's used from the coasts to the heartland. 'Bodacious', 'tubular', 'totally', 'mondo stoked' and other non-character-saving expressions didn't migrate. They stayed in the 80s. (Although I have heard 'totes' as a shortened form of totally.)
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)"dude", "like", "totally" (or "totes" , "whatever" (or "whatevs" , "sweet" (sometimes), "oh my god", "ewww", "sooo", etc etc.
The damn shit has even infected my speech, I find myself occasionally using "like" as a hedge.
I also like the word "motherfucker". No other word has such a satisfying cadence to it: MUTH-er-FUCK-er. That's African American. "Cool" is African-American as well, I think. Is using words such as "cool" appropriating black culture? I'd say that probably the horse has bolted on that one, it became generic quite some time ago.
I think that these inflections become pervasive because they satisfy a need, and presumably do so better than other, alternative speech patterns. Or in other words, a white guy says "motherfucker" for the same reason that a black girl says "OMG totally".
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)but I hear more 'condensed' jargon than anything else. I don't text, or else I'm sure I'd be running into even more of it.
I don't tend to use MF. When I'm cursing, 'damn's and 'ass'es in various permutations show up, as in 'What a jackass'. That might be more a small town heartland sort of pattern.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Assery and Assery running its course - in my neck of the woods.
I don't use the inflected MF and I'm not around any black folks that use it.
I've heard Samuel L. Jackson use it in a movie though.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)I love it!
Unfortunately for Bravenak, myself, and a few other black women here - we feel your pain.
We live as a subculture in a dominant culture and we survive it.
You, a male, in a foreign country. - without our rich life experience mean well - but you don't see or understand our world and how we navigate for it. You don't intend to display arrogance and dismissal - but it's often how it can come across. It's sort of like talking with Newt Gingrich. He means well - but he knows what he knows and can't see us as full human beings with valid experiences, and voices to share.
We don't count in America - and evident - ROW. <. Common acronym on the finance side of wireless.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)I've done pretty well out of the dominant culture, I must say. I'm certainly doing better than I would be as the son of a camel-riding, sheet wearing bedouin sheikh. You're probably the same yourself.
I'm not in Africa much these days. I used to be handy at Swahili, I can still get by but thats about it.
The last time I was in Tanzania, one of the family businesses sold some bulk food to one of the aid agencies. The rep that they sent out was an African American lady, this seems to be happening more and more. Probably some self-discovery thing perhaps. The usual substantial markup applied. The aid agencies have no idea and they're not spending their own money anyway.
I told her you should take the high-value stuff with you (rubbing alcohol, mosquito nets). She said okay. Unconsciously, our man Ferdi, Bantu to his bootstraps, turns to his junior and says (in Swahili): "put all those nets in the mzungu's car". I cringed slightly but she didnt notice. I guess she probably got called that the whole time she was there. Hopefully she took home a bunch of holiday snaps with happy, gamboling children showing how down with the locals she was.
He calls me the same thing. Fair enough I suppose. We don't see or understand his world or how he navigates it. Kapeesh?
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)My husband is from Italy.
And it is understood to be an insult if you don't know someone intimately. A high insult.
And that experience has zero to do with the real time experiences of black folks in America. Try again.
We've got our own battles on our own turf to fight.
Quayblue
(1,045 posts)shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)A little nouveau riche for my tastes perhaps, but the people who live there must enjoy it.
Quayblue
(1,045 posts)However, I was in San Diego for a while. Quite enjoyed living a mile from the ocean.
randys1
(16,286 posts)and boy do white folks have serious issues to riot over...
Here is the most telling comment
Show me one minority who has ever uttered those words.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)And they were clearly having a blast during the entire event. Well, except for the round up and tear gas. They didn't look pleased by that.
Paul Mooney would be fantastic. Imagine how our journalists would go insane. I would love that.
randys1
(16,286 posts)he should but he isnt the angry person he pretends to be, at least I dont think he is.
I think he is angrier at Hollywood than anything else
bravenak
(34,648 posts)He just says all the things I think out loud. And hollywood is bad. He's right about that.
randys1
(16,286 posts)shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)At least one person appears to be flashing a Serbian salute. There are others doing the "two in the pinker one in the stinker" gesture, others are doing the British gesture known as "the forks". Some others appear to be doing the devil horns, or variations thereof.
Probably more interesting is the assumption, apparently implicit in this sort of commentary, that finger gestures are some sort of "black thing".
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Seriously, where did YOU get the idea that flashing gang signals is a "black thing"???
I didn't even remotely suggest it, you should check yourself and think that over, it wasn't me.
But then I worked for years with members and former members of gangs, including Hispanic, Asian, and Black gangs, and gangs that were not dedicated to a single race.
Mostly, these people pictured at the website are imitating what they've seen in pop culture, and it's not something that's done only by white people.
Do some of them know what the hand gestures represent? I would guess that only in the minority of cases are they familiar with the "two in the pinker one in the stinker" gesture, or "the forks".
I don't think these picture sets represent the brightest among American citizens.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)no one actually is throwing a 'shocker' (aka, pink/stink), a stupid sign that generally only shows up in college frat type pictures or the Tosh show at a guess. You've got the live long and prosper guy, the bird puppet shadow guy, the Texas Longhorns or 'devil sign' guy, and finally whatever that guy in the back left is doing, which is maybe the 'Serbian' thing I guess. If they weren't all so serious looking, I'd assume they were all simply trying to look as silly as possible.
Number23
(24,544 posts)Everyone of those Tweets is solid gold. LOVE
Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)I don't use Twitter (never have, never will) and wasn't sure if it was a separate domain, like BlackTwitter.com or something.
Or is it just a Twitter thread featuring black commentators.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Which still manages to surprise people who should not be surprised by that.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)and "witter", respectively. Gay and lesbian twitter would be Glitter, i suppose. No idea on what Asian twitter should be. Chitter?
7962
(11,841 posts)Response to 7962 (Reply #40)
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7962
(11,841 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Only black folks at DU telling white folks at DU some inconvenient truths are offensive.
7962
(11,841 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Right here on this thread my friend.
Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)I've heard people refer to a site called VContact.com as "Russian Facebook" and Baidoo.com as "Chinese Facebook." 60 Minutes did a story about the guy who started this shopping site, AliBaba.com, which I went and looked up -- some people call it "Chinese eBay."
By the example given, these could just be sub-sites of Facebook or eBay with Russian or Chinese users. But these are separate sites. Hence, there could very well be a separate domain BlackTwitter.com.
I just did a domain lookup, and BlackTwitter.com is for sale... if you've got an extra $2600 lying around. No site, apparently. A parked page.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I was pissed!!!!!! Those tweets are real shit though.
Number23
(24,544 posts)that had never heard of it.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I hope that everywhere she goes people whip out their ipads and show everyone what she did. Notorious liars cannot be trusted. I love twitter. Have you seen 'white people throwing up gang signs on tumblr? http://whitepeoplethrowinggangsigns.tumblr.com
I cried it was so funny!!! Cannot stop laughing....
Javaman
(62,531 posts)if that isn't a glaring statement about the state of our nation, I don't know what is.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)K&R.
Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)Fucker thinks he's the heartthrob George Clooney of the right.
randys1
(16,286 posts)would love to be his real estate agent
strawberries
(498 posts)Even if it were all whites causing a raucous the headline will only make them laugh.
Whites riot over pumpkins in NH and Twitter turns it into epic lesson about Ferguson
You have to be more specific, example; a bunch of Italian Guineas where spewing garlic at the cops.... Now that would be hurtful to Italians
When you group everyone together as white, they tend to laugh
rurallib
(62,426 posts)with all the military hardware? is there a curfew on campus?
maybe they should have sent in an all minority SWAT team?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I don't think Ferguson has sent in a literal SWAT team at any point, either.
There was a curfew announced on campus.
1StrongBlackMan
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http://www.businessinsider.com/swat-ferguson-protest-2014-8
I normally have been in agreement with much of what you write; but on this topic ... on this thread? I just want to know who hacked you account.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I didn't realize literal SWAT teams were used in crowd control situations. Even more appalling...
randys1
(16,286 posts)It is said that most Black folk do not respect the law, now I dont agree with this but if it were true, i wonder if it would make sense?
I wonder why Black folk wouldnt respect the law? Now I dont need to go back this long to make a point, but I think we do need to remind ourselves of where we have been and where we seem to be going once again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Thomas_Shipp_and_Abram_Smith
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/kc4ojp/police-militarization-in-america
skip to 2:14 ... talks about the pumpkin festival and their military hardware they requested for it... aired sept 2nd
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Eye-opening, aren't they?
IronLionZion
(45,460 posts)these people should be sent back where they came from. Criminals, all of them. They are not real Americans. Has anyone checked their papers? They have been stealing jobs away from the rest of us for too long and are a drain on our public resources.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Wanna bet this guy is from a rich family and is going to end up in management?
7962
(11,841 posts)Since its now OK on DU to label a riot based on its participants color, I figured I'd post a story on them cleaning up. Cant recall a story on "Black rioters" doing the same.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)ignoring the ridiculousness of your comment ... here:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ferguson-day-two-wrapup-day-of-protests-night-of-frenzy/article_f9d627dc-e3c8-5bde-b2ab-7f0a3d36a083.html
7962
(11,841 posts)And thank you for the link. Of course THAT doesnt make the national news.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)was to highlight the distinction between the treatment of events by the media, and apparently, by some DUers, as well. When Black folks gather to protest injustice, and are met with aggressive police action, the resulting response is immediately termed a "riot"; whereas, when white folks gather for a community event and turn violent, it is termed "youthful indiscretion", and largely discounted.
Highlighting this disparity is not a crime; but failing to recognize the racial underpinning of the disparity, should be ... on a "Liberal/progressive" message board.
A really appropriate toon:
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)it's because their team WON a sporting event, or the bars closed (at 2am, the same time they always do), or somebody started a social media campaign to actually create a riot at a festival.
(And yes, that 'bars closed' rioting actually happened at my own Alma Mater, although thankfully not while I was out drinking.)
It's the 'first world problems' of rioting. We can't be bothered to riot over any of the horrible things our police or political leaders do. Only to show we're idiots.
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JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Eta -
I clean up the streets for about three hours during the day. I dont want to be around that area at night because of the tear gas being fired at the riots, Dupree said.
^Totally don't blame 'Em. There's Ferguson Cops out there! ^
randys1
(16,286 posts)white folk who vote DemocratIC (next time I hear a rightwinger say it wrong I am going to explode)
I am finding out more and more that people I know and respect are harboring these racist beliefs.
I have friends or family in big city environments where they say they deal with angry Black folk who pick on them and so on.
I have no doubt what they say is true, I have no doubt that experiences like that are in part why we continue to see so much of this racism and white privilege from the left; I also have no doubt that if I were a Black Man in my 20's or 30's (all the complaints I have heard are about this group) I would be hard pressed to NOT walk around with a chip on my shoulder and likely in a constant state of partial rage.
Hell, I am in that state now and I am an old white guy.
Now my friends and family who have these experiences never tell me about the white guys that are assholes to them, or the fill in the blank's, and I know from experience that happens too.
There is a tension between the white ruling class and minorities, it has been created by the white ruling class's actions, entirely.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Got hidden was how it started - but there's a point where we should allowed to be open and honest with each other.
I was not surprised to find the person who got this hide is from my home city. It showed.
Very little tolerance for nonsense up there.
If only randy - if only that was the case EVERYWHERE.
randys1
(16,286 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Good stuff in there - just started out on the wrong foot.
randys1
(16,286 posts)A.I didnt know we could see hidden posts
B. this was hidden because the writer told the truth in a harsh manner?
C. Democrats are too sensitive for harsh truth?
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Orrex
(63,216 posts)Let us honor the slight inconvenience some of them endured as they...
Wait. What the hell were they doing, exactly? Something noble and community-minded, I'm sure.