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In reply to the discussion: Here's Why Your Fried Chicken and Watermelon Lunch Is Racist [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)many white people don't know anything about 'Birth of a Nation' having never seen it, nor heard about it. The first time I heard about it was when I was watching the movie "Having our Say".
So the notion that it had or has a huge impact on the way white people think is silly.
That was the argument I made.
I made no claims to knowing all about Aunt Jemima or Mammys or whatever else you want to bring up.
Now as for the video, I find it silly and sad. Some people, for example, got upset because all of the supercharged and fast employees were black. Uhm, maybe because all of the US Olympic track team is black, because fast people like Bob Hayes, Carl Lewis and Usain Bolt are black.
And black atheletes like Lebron James are pictured as scary and white atheletes like Steve Nash and Tom Brady are not.
Steve Nash - 6' 3" and 178 lbs
Lebron James - 6' 8" and 250 lbs
Charles Barkley - 6' 5" and 252 lbs
Kevin Garnett - 6' 11' and 253 lbs
Steve Nash just isn't very scary next to a guy like Lebron James or Shaq.
Tom Brady - 6' 4" and 225 lbs.
Surprising to me, he is almost as heavy as Lebron and also almost as heavy as
Michael Strahan - 6' 5" and 255 lbs.
But in the world of football, Tom Brady is not all that physically scary. Not next to guys like
Ndamukong Suh - 6' 4" and 307 lbs
Warren Sapp - 6' 2" and 300 lbs
Brady's pretty small next to linemen and he doesn't pulverize people like running backs and linebackers. In a game, he's more likely to get slammed to the ground than he is to flatten somebody else in a play.
So in some ways they seemed to be grasping at straws, looking for reasons to be offended.