Anyone else think McDonalds is trying way too hard to be black?

[imported_LoKe]

I've always found it funny how "african americans" refer to themselves/eachother as "n1ggers."

They say it to eachother over and over again without thinking a thing of it, yet, when someone else says it who is not black, it immediately makes them a racist and they MUST be part of the KKK. There's no other explanation, right? Wrong.

You'd think they were trying to suck every last bit of pitty out of everything around them. The world is not anti-black anymore, we accept all cultures. Well, most of us do, with the exception of some ignorant people who think the color of the skin means anything at all. Get over it.

The truth is, most people who find the word n1gger offensive are just trying to either scare you, or mess around with you. Sure, if you use it in a threatening/angered sense, then I could understand them getting mad about it.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Xionide

Originally posted by: classy
You know you can have your opinion, but that Wigger comment is over the top. So you should "bleeping" remove it. Its amazing what is allowed here and what isn't.

And people call me a prude. Is wigger is a derivative of the n-word yes. But the meaning is far from racist. Not all white people can just be labled as wiggers. It is the way certain ones act. I am an african american that has grown up with a white parent living in a predominately white town (2% blacks in the high school). I basically am a white dude trapped in a black mans body. If I tried to act gangsta I would be a wigger too.

So stfu foo be-fo I gots tah drop yo bitch ass.

:thumbsup:

 

[The Godfather]

wow this thread turned into a kill zone with the race difference brung into fact...

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: LoKe
You'd think they were trying to suck every last bit of pitty out of everything around them. The world is not anti-black anymore, we accept all cultures. Well, most of us do, with the exception of some ignorant people who think the color of the skin means anything at all. Get over it.

:beer::beer: you really believe that? I am a white guy and I know for a fact MANY people still have major prejudices....being you are canadian I suppose your country is happy to get anyone on board.

There are many places in American (and the world) where it'd be a short walk for any black, white, asian, spanish, italian, german, etc....person to get out of their car for a sightseeing trip.

Your post just lowered the collective IQ of this forum a full notch.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Like you said, I'm Canadian. We've learned to accept different cultures. I don't see how such a post could have lowered my IQ or anyone elses for that matter. Please clarify?

 

[jEct2]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Like you said, I'm Canadian. We've learned to accept different cultures. I don't see how such a post could have lowered my IQ or anyone elses for that matter. Please clarify?

Canadian or not, you have got to be freaking kidding me. You need some serious reality check if you think racism is abolished in your very neighborhood, let alone Canada or the world.

I'm not even gonna say anything. YOU NEED SOME REALITY CHECK.

 

[imported_DocHolliday]

Originally posted by: classy

Black culture is so mixed with teen culture of all colors and races its kind of hard to seperate them. These companies are trying to attract young teens, and black music and culture is the dominant culture of all of today's youth. Can you understand that?

[c3po voice]We're doomed[/c3po voice]

 

[imported_LoKe]

I never said it was abolished, I was merely saying it has greatly dimished. Look back about 20 years and tell me things haven't gotten better.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Like you said, I'm Canadian. We've learned to accept different cultures. I don't see how such a post could have lowered my IQ or anyone elses for that matter. Please clarify?

i did no how grammor better before.

 

[imported_LoKe]

You're insulting my grammar now? Nice, nothing does it quite like an easy way out.

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

Originally posted by: classy

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: classy

Originally posted by: duckdown

Originally posted by: classy
You know you can have your opinion, but that Wigger comment is over the top. So you should "bleeping" remove it. Its amazing what is allowed here and what isn't.

Now 'wigger' is a bad word?
wtf?

i have nothing against black people, or any race for that matter.

Really so white people who like black music or embrace black culture are trying to be N1ggers? So let's clarify this, first you think blacks are N1ggers and second, whites who may embrace something of blacks should be called Wiggers? Yea your right, you got nothing against anyone.

To be fair, if blacks go around calling each other that word, why on earth would they be surprised if others used it as well?

The outrage over the N word would be MUCH more believable if popular black culture didn't embrace it as a term of affection and popular name for each other.

LOL, so because they use it in their talk as affection, gives total trash the right to use it as a demeaning slur against them? Why am I not surprised that this is coming from you.

So, by your logic, if I went up to a black person the street and said nicely "That shirt looks very nice on you, N****!" I would have nothing to fear, because I used it as a term of affection?

I don't understand your logic. So, you're saying that other races are incapable of using it as a term of affection?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: TechnoPro
McDonald's profits are up. They're doing something right...

It's the chicken selects, fo' shizzle (black folk love them some fried chicken)

 

[AmdEmAll]

365Black

 

[DurocShark]

Crap like what Classy's spewing in this thread piss me off. I work with all races and don't even think about it until some racist bastard like Classy starts dumping.

I've found that the most vocal of any race crying racism are racist themselves.

If somebody, regardless of race, came up to me and said, "Sup Wigga?" I would bust out laughing. Or cracker. Or honkey. Or whatever.

Names don't mean sh!t. It's all about action. Calling me a name is just reason to laugh.

 

[91TTZ]

Whoever is managing the "black image" is doing a really bad job. If I were BET or some other famous black media outlet, I would not associate black people with rap, the thug lifestyle, and hiphop. Maybe they should try showing black people that can speak proper English and work a real job. But adopting the thug lifestyle and calling it "black culture" is just doing a disservice to their own community.

 

[91TTZ]

Don't mind Classy. He's just on a mission to fight the diabolical conspiracy set forf by da white devil.

 

[MommysLittleMonster]

I agree. I went to a McDonalds the other day and the first thing I noticed was a life like cardboard Destinys Child thing. Then all the cups and bags had all these breakdancer people on it. The kids toys were little dark barbies.

 

[aplefka]

Yes

 

[SVT Cobra]

word...

 

[Miramonti]

They exploit the fact that minorities give less of a crap about what they eat, which research has shown. I'm not sure that's mcdonald's fault, but it doesn't endear me to them.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: jjsole
They exploit the fact that minorities give less of a crap about what they eat, which research has shown. I'm not sure that's mcdonald's fault, but it doesn't endear me to them.

Or they are marketing towards their customer base. All companies do this. How is this "exploitation?"

 

[cKGunslinger]

You know, as a kid growing up, I always had the impression that McDonald's had a larger "white people" base of customers. It seemed that Burger King attracted more "black people." Now this may just have been a local thing or something, but that's kinda the perception I had. Even during school field trips, when the bus would park in between the two restaurants, there was a natural tendency for the group to segregate by race to their chosen stores.

If that was true, then they are both tryig to target that missing audience. McDonald's is trying a young, urban thing to attract minorities and other non-caucasions. Burger King, in an attempt to get more white customers, naturally pimps out Hootie.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: jjsole
They exploit the fact that minorities give less of a crap about what they eat, which research has shown. I'm not sure that's mcdonald's fault, but it doesn't endear me to them.

Or they are marketing towards their customer base. All companies do this. How is this "exploitation?"

I said that it was exploiting the fact, as opposed to exploiting the people. Like I said, I didn't necessarily blame them, but I it doesn't endear me to them either.

 

[kmac1914]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Whoever is managing the "black image" is doing a really bad job. If I were BET or some other famous black media outlet, I would not associate black people with rap, the thug lifestyle, and hiphop. Maybe they should try showing black people that can speak proper English and work a real job. But adopting the thug lifestyle and calling it "black culture" is just doing a disservice to their own community.

Well, clearly, the persons managing said image aren't familiar with it. This whole "urbanizing" of certain advertisements, etc., really just comes from advertising execs trying to capitalize on what's hot. The prevalence of this so-called 'hip-pop' that rules the radio nowadays (although i am glad to see rock coming back) means that the people in suits are trying to jump onto the bandwagon of what's hot.

As far as the whole n-word argument, I don't condone the use of non-blacks using it, but at the same time, i can't stand the fact that most of the exposure that whites get to black culture through music and tv is of just the "ignorant stereotypes"--which includes, unfortunately, the use of the n-word. As such, non-black people start to get the idea that it's okay to say. As someone posted earlier, it's much like any other word that has a negative connotation associated with it--a woman can call another woman a bitch (in a friendly context), and neither of them would have a problem with it, but very few of the males on this board would walk up to a random female and do the same thing, because the outcome wouldn't be pretty...and yet, no big fuss is made about why that is.

It's essentially a double standard: the fact that the people are in the same group entitles them to use the word and other people who aren't in the same group to not use it--regardless of if its being used as a term of affection or not. One reason being, if you do that, it then becomes an issue of 'well, this white person over here said it, but they meant it as a term of affection--but this other white person said it, and meant it as a slur'. So it's just easier to say it's not cool for them to say it pretty much all the time.

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: jjsole
They exploit the fact that minorities give less of a crap about what they eat, which research has shown. I'm not sure that's mcdonald's fault, but it doesn't endear me to them.

Or they are marketing towards their customer base. All companies do this. How is this "exploitation?"

ex·ploi·ta·tion Pronunciation Key (ksploi-tshn)
n.

1. The act of employing to the greatest possible advantage

Exploitation isn't always a negative word.