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In reply to the discussion: 'Are Fried Chicken And Watermelon Racist?' MTV's Franchesca Ramsey Asks... [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)17. Speaking of savages:
Africans shocked by uncivilized antics of European savages
By The Red Phoenix on April 29, 2012
DAKAR. Africans say they have little hope that Europe will ever become civilized, after a week in which Spains King Carlos went on an elephant-killing spree and the Swedish Culture Minister was entertained by a racially offensive cake. You can take the European out of the jungle, but you cant take the jungle out of the European, sighed one resident of Kinshasa.
August Mwanasa, of Libreville in Gabon, said the latest atrocities didnt surprise him as Europeans were still savages. I dont want to sound racist, and some of my best friend are white, but lets be honest: violence is hard-wired into their DNA, said Mwanasa. I mean, Europeans killed over 20 million other Europeans in the 1930s and 1940s. Thats barbarism on a scale unprecedented in history.
Jenkins Odumbe, a Nairobi milliner, bemoaned ingrained attitudes of entitlement in Europe. If theyre not going on the dole theyre asking for bail-outs, he said. Why cant they just get up earlier and work harder, thats what I want to know? Liberte Aidoo, a Ghanaian travel agent, said she had been shocked and disgusted by what she found on her first trip to Spain.
The brochures promise sea and sun, but theyre still incredibly backward in Spain, she recalled. Basically they all live in mud huts called haciendas, and they sleep for two hours in the middle of the day. In Europe they call it a siesta. In Ghana we call it being #%@@@%% lazy.
WARNING: Unpleasant pics at at the link, but important points:
http://theredphoenixapl.org/2012/04/29/africans-shocked-by-uncivilized-antics-of-european-savages/
Kinda weird, here's another site:
http://ojiudezue.com/blog/index.php/snark-worthy-of-reposting/
By The Red Phoenix on April 29, 2012
DAKAR. Africans say they have little hope that Europe will ever become civilized, after a week in which Spains King Carlos went on an elephant-killing spree and the Swedish Culture Minister was entertained by a racially offensive cake. You can take the European out of the jungle, but you cant take the jungle out of the European, sighed one resident of Kinshasa.
August Mwanasa, of Libreville in Gabon, said the latest atrocities didnt surprise him as Europeans were still savages. I dont want to sound racist, and some of my best friend are white, but lets be honest: violence is hard-wired into their DNA, said Mwanasa. I mean, Europeans killed over 20 million other Europeans in the 1930s and 1940s. Thats barbarism on a scale unprecedented in history.
Jenkins Odumbe, a Nairobi milliner, bemoaned ingrained attitudes of entitlement in Europe. If theyre not going on the dole theyre asking for bail-outs, he said. Why cant they just get up earlier and work harder, thats what I want to know? Liberte Aidoo, a Ghanaian travel agent, said she had been shocked and disgusted by what she found on her first trip to Spain.
The brochures promise sea and sun, but theyre still incredibly backward in Spain, she recalled. Basically they all live in mud huts called haciendas, and they sleep for two hours in the middle of the day. In Europe they call it a siesta. In Ghana we call it being #%@@@%% lazy.
WARNING: Unpleasant pics at at the link, but important points:
http://theredphoenixapl.org/2012/04/29/africans-shocked-by-uncivilized-antics-of-european-savages/
Kinda weird, here's another site:
http://ojiudezue.com/blog/index.php/snark-worthy-of-reposting/
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'Are Fried Chicken And Watermelon Racist?' MTV's Franchesca Ramsey Asks... [View all]
sheshe2
Jun 2015
OP
How did fried chicken and watermelon come to be associated with black people?
LittleBlue
Jun 2015
#7
True, especially when rolled out as the menu for "Black History Month."
Behind the Aegis
Jun 2015
#34