Racist Field Trip
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2. thundersnow commented 9 years ago
Love the kid, he is hilarious and very funny...has comedian potential...but hope this will just be no more than a funny video, and won't start a flame war, because the video definitely has underlying racial connotations.
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3. Pyranthos commented 9 years ago
Outstanding comedic story telling skills. Rather like that he could be that entertaining simply retelling it while also conveying the seriousness of it all at the end via his demeanor.. Knows its a funny story, but he also knows that's only because of how he tells it, no other reason. Star quality
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6. samxgx commented 9 years ago
Honestly, i fail to see the racism in the story.
if it was a mixed group of white and colored kids and only the colored kids were required to pick the cotton, i would say yes... that's racist.
if it was only the colored kids of the school that had to go there and pick cotton, that would be racist.
so far the story is just a bunch of kids going on a field trip and coming back home safe. as he said it him self, "i just thought we are going to have some fun in the field".
the only reason the racist feeling is brought up here is because of the history behind it and it's similarity.
what happened in the past was wrong as a motherf#%$er. this... as he tells what happened, not really.
if it was a mixed group of white and colored kids and only the colored kids were required to pick the cotton, i would say yes... that's racist.
if it was only the colored kids of the school that had to go there and pick cotton, that would be racist.
so far the story is just a bunch of kids going on a field trip and coming back home safe. as he said it him self, "i just thought we are going to have some fun in the field".
the only reason the racist feeling is brought up here is because of the history behind it and it's similarity.
what happened in the past was wrong as a motherf#%$er. this... as he tells what happened, not really.
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7. dushan commented 9 years ago
#6 0:13 "we went there, and me, and 28 other little niglets in ms. harper’s third-grade classroom, they took our asses out there, in the middle of the f*&%#!g august heat"
sending 29 ( black ) kids to pick cotton whole day, in a form of a field trip, is funny only because of the way it is told, as #3 pointed out. any parent would be infuriated by this, it's wrong on so many levels ( and racist connotation is only one of them )
sending 29 ( black ) kids to pick cotton whole day, in a form of a field trip, is funny only because of the way it is told, as #3 pointed out. any parent would be infuriated by this, it's wrong on so many levels ( and racist connotation is only one of them )
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9. Judge-Jake commented 9 years ago
I like a laugh I really do, it's kinda my hobby you know and I have to say very few comedians make me even grin these days.
Even some of the so called mega comedic stars out there and I won't mention any names Okay Michael fecking Mintyre (and I don't even care if I spelt his name wrong that's how much I can't stand the guy)I stare at the screen everytime I can't find the remote to turn the Pillock off and I can't see the appeal, he is just not funny!
BUT I do fully understand that this is my problem as many other deluded people do, comedy is a very personal thing. I have done stand up myself and the only thing that holds me back from doing more is that I feel I am in a minority with the material that I find funny.
My reason for this long comment is that if the guy in this video has the courage (and more material) to take that piece on to a comedy stage he would bring the house down. It is absolutely true, ironic and priceless and the honest admission that he didn't even know the irony of the trip for a black kid was just the icing on the cake. I guess from the schools point of view it was little different than taking a class of Jewish children to a Nazi concentration camp and the mistake if there was one, was that the children or at this one, hadn't had the reasoning of this trip explained to them in what was presumably a history lesson. Perhaps he was off with a cold that day
Even some of the so called mega comedic stars out there and I won't mention any names Okay Michael fecking Mintyre (and I don't even care if I spelt his name wrong that's how much I can't stand the guy)I stare at the screen everytime I can't find the remote to turn the Pillock off and I can't see the appeal, he is just not funny!
BUT I do fully understand that this is my problem as many other deluded people do, comedy is a very personal thing. I have done stand up myself and the only thing that holds me back from doing more is that I feel I am in a minority with the material that I find funny.
My reason for this long comment is that if the guy in this video has the courage (and more material) to take that piece on to a comedy stage he would bring the house down. It is absolutely true, ironic and priceless and the honest admission that he didn't even know the irony of the trip for a black kid was just the icing on the cake. I guess from the schools point of view it was little different than taking a class of Jewish children to a Nazi concentration camp and the mistake if there was one, was that the children or at this one, hadn't had the reasoning of this trip explained to them in what was presumably a history lesson. Perhaps he was off with a cold that day
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10. thundersnow commented 9 years ago
I mean #6 is also making a good point, the problem is that we already have a specific mindset as to what racism is, because we were cultured into it. That's why small children don't know, don't care and are unbiased.
My first thought was that it was racial, but part of it is what I was taught to think and feel after living here for a long time.
Those children, white and black, live in Missouri, where cotton processing was (and maybe still is) a big part of their heritage, maybe that's what the school was trying to convey...and I think that is what #6 was trying to say. The flaw in this was probably that the school did not explain the trip and its purpose to the parents ahead of time, or, as it always happened with my boys, the flyer never made it out of the book bag into the parents' hands, because usually you can opt out of participating in a field trip you feel uncomfortable about.
Unfortunately, this will always be a very touchy subject.
Agree with the chicken too.
Lovin' a good snotr discussion!
My first thought was that it was racial, but part of it is what I was taught to think and feel after living here for a long time.
Those children, white and black, live in Missouri, where cotton processing was (and maybe still is) a big part of their heritage, maybe that's what the school was trying to convey...and I think that is what #6 was trying to say. The flaw in this was probably that the school did not explain the trip and its purpose to the parents ahead of time, or, as it always happened with my boys, the flyer never made it out of the book bag into the parents' hands, because usually you can opt out of participating in a field trip you feel uncomfortable about.
Unfortunately, this will always be a very touchy subject.
Agree with the chicken too.
Lovin' a good snotr discussion!
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12. sux2bu commented 9 years ago
It seems the teacher and admins at the little Dunbar-Ramer school didn't think this field trip through all the way. The school is over 80% black so it is no surprise if his whole class was black, but to send 3rd graders out in the cotton field in August heat is just idiotic. On top of that you have the old slave history, which the kids probably weren't thinking about,but their parents were sure to bring it up when they found out.
The guy really has a talent for telling a story.
http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/1004
The guy really has a talent for telling a story.
http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/1004
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13. thundersnow commented 9 years ago
#11, you mean "our "chicken as the chicken of the Snotr Farm Estate..lol? ..oh I know his name is Judge-Jake...how could I forget
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14. Judge-Jake commented 9 years ago
Hey you guys you got me worried there for a moment! I thought I had become declassified as just a chicken, I ainn't no 'just a chicken'. I mean how many other chickens sweat and toil as much as I do to bring a little happiness to these occasionally soulless debates, I'll tell you how many...Okay I can't be sure and being a Judge and only being able to tell the truth the whole truth and very little less than the fecking truth, I have an obligation to my peers and fellow Snotrarians to keep it all real.
I do not intend or expect to appear in any oven anytime soon in fact not until the day (or actually about a week later these days) I get my plug pulled out or my mortal coil rusts through and I get propelled into the ether from whence I came and then everyone can sing "There goes, there goes, there goes, de Judge". JJ X
I do not intend or expect to appear in any oven anytime soon in fact not until the day (or actually about a week later these days) I get my plug pulled out or my mortal coil rusts through and I get propelled into the ether from whence I came and then everyone can sing "There goes, there goes, there goes, de Judge". JJ X
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16. thundersnow commented 9 years ago
Whether hen or rooster is irrelevant, what matters is that we love our Snotr Farm chicken...lol
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18. Judge-Jake commented 9 years ago
#15 #17 Firstly let me apologise for taking my sorry time answering your Hen Rooster Question. Secondly let me assure you that your knowledge of the appearance of a rooster is lacking to the hen'th degree. Now this might be a little confusing to yarl as irrespective of my profile (in disguise) picture, which is absolutely an egg laying hen not a rooster.
I am Male in persuasion & cannot be persuaded otherwise so don't try. You will understand that in my line of work the Hen profile is not only necessary but perfect! Batman was disguised as a bat (a big one admittedly) and he would have stuck out like a sore arsed Bat hanging from a cave with a colony of other bats. Likewise with Spiderman I mean who did he think he was fooling, just imagine him on all eights in the middle of a group of daddy longlegs! pathetic!! But a hen see, you dirt rat, they can be little and stay with you or large and leave you as in 'My Big Hens gone'. So there you have it just a snippet of the background of the Judge that is Jake, wright'er of wrongs and songs, with a keyboard not tongue, not wearing a thong, in the Snotr farm where I belong
I am Male in persuasion & cannot be persuaded otherwise so don't try. You will understand that in my line of work the Hen profile is not only necessary but perfect! Batman was disguised as a bat (a big one admittedly) and he would have stuck out like a sore arsed Bat hanging from a cave with a colony of other bats. Likewise with Spiderman I mean who did he think he was fooling, just imagine him on all eights in the middle of a group of daddy longlegs! pathetic!! But a hen see, you dirt rat, they can be little and stay with you or large and leave you as in 'My Big Hens gone'. So there you have it just a snippet of the background of the Judge that is Jake, wright'er of wrongs and songs, with a keyboard not tongue, not wearing a thong, in the Snotr farm where I belong
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19. thundersnow commented 9 years ago
You couldn't have explained it better JJ!
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20. Judge-Jake commented 9 years ago
#19 Are you sue? only I wondered if I should have left a few performance notes in the margin, I'm such a worrier
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21. thundersnow commented 9 years ago
Yes #20, you're just fine , trust me..no need to worry!
+6 1. lvennard commented 9 years ago