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Offline ROC

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« Reply #45 on: April 20, 2006, 03:26:42 PM »
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Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second." The question then asked students to determine when the watermelon would hit the ground


And as usual, the kids learned all about racism, the evil Libs/Conservatives, got the community in an uproar, got the web sites blasting each other.

And still can't answer the question that was asked.
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« Reply #46 on: April 20, 2006, 03:29:04 PM »
Water melons are pretty tasteless, but they are not racist.
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« Reply #47 on: April 20, 2006, 03:33:48 PM »
I think some of you have way too much time on your hands.
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« Reply #48 on: April 20, 2006, 03:53:12 PM »
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
This is almost comical.  I just cannot fathom how a watermelon could be the anchor point for racial commentary.  Regardless of the past, it just defies all logic.


In the south I witnessed growing up a watermelon was often used to make racial jokes, to me the fact you dont understand the inference defies logic as I understand it... I dont think any less of you, I just dont understand it...  
 The lack of logic has everything to do with the past 100+ years as it pertains to this issue....
 
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« Reply #49 on: April 20, 2006, 04:21:30 PM »
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Beet, my math aint so good but I'm guessing your wrong.  
1.  Condi stands about 5' 7"?  is she wearing heels?  so height would start at least 305.

2.  and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second  how much does the watermelon weigh and how much can Condi bench press?  need to calculate how high she tosses it up, then the watermelon has to decelerate, then begin its drop down again.  You say she'll toss it up 10ft, then total distance for the drop would be 315 feet
OK, so the allowance to be made for Condi's height in heels is around 6ft. But, as the water melon nears the ground, it would be travelling at over 120ft per second. As you can see, that extra 6ft is going to make a difference of only one twentieth of a second.
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« Reply #50 on: April 20, 2006, 05:17:34 PM »
Skuzzy, this is just a guess on my part, but I would say you weren't raised down South.  If I'm wrong I apologize.

Well, I was, and I can say from personal experience that Shaky's assessment is spot on.

The association of black people with watermelon and fried chicken is one of the oldest caricatures in Southern culture.  I've heard those jokes all my life...and they ARE racist.

One doesn't hear those jokes as often as you once did...but occasionally you can still hear some "grown-up" (In this case, the word is an oxy-"moron") repeating one and s******ing like a teenager telling pornographic jokes in a gymnasium locker room.

Certainly the professor knew what he was doing...taking a jab at a prominent republican with a problem laced with racist inuendo.
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« Reply #51 on: April 20, 2006, 05:20:39 PM »
*sigh*  Took me a moment to figure out why the language filter deleted one of the words in my previous post.

It should have read s-n-i-g-g-e-r-i-n-g.

Another example of pc taken to an extreme.
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« Reply #52 on: April 20, 2006, 05:24:03 PM »
I think some people take this racist angle too seriously.

When I started on my first work assignment in the US, two of my colleagues were black guys - one from Charlottesville,VA and the other from Washington DC. Clearly humour was different in our somewhat contrasting cultures, but I thought I'd take a chance with the bikini girl joke -

Q. Why is a bikini girl like a roast chicken?
A. Because the white bits are always the best.

They weren't offended at all, and had a good laugh! Probably laughing at me for having told it, but no offence was taken at this arguably racist joke.
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« Reply #53 on: April 20, 2006, 05:27:07 PM »
Shuckins, I was born and raised in Texas.  Grew up in Corpus Christi.

In the case of the language filter, it is not very sophisticated.  If you look at the contents of your word, you will note a very derogatory term in it.  The filter nabbed it for that.  The filter dunt know from PC.
And I do not think anyone would argue the word in question should not be allowed.  There is a difference from being derogatory and being racist, although the two can cross paths.
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« Reply #54 on: April 20, 2006, 06:58:59 PM »
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Originally posted by beet1e
....I thought I'd take a chance with the bikini girl joke -

Q. Why is a bikini girl like a roast chicken?
A. Because the white bits are always the best.

They weren't offended at all, and had a good laugh! Probably laughing at me for having told it, but no offence was taken at this arguably racist joke.


It's not racist at all.  It's anti Queen Victoria*!  You traitor!

*White meat and dark meat in reference to poultry is due to the Queen not wanting to say 'Breast' and 'Thigh' at the dinner table.  
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« Reply #55 on: April 20, 2006, 08:20:18 PM »
Skuzzy, my point was concerning your comment is that racism defies logic.
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« Reply #56 on: April 20, 2006, 08:31:59 PM »
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
'Breast' and 'Thigh' .  


MMM breasts and thighs
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« Reply #57 on: April 21, 2006, 08:14:55 AM »
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Shaky, according to your post, you believe racism is politically motivated.  Is this a correct assessment?


I believe THIS instance of a blatantly racist remark was politically motivated, yes. I believe that many allegations of racism are also politically motivated, witness the current Duke fiasco, or the Brawley case.

In short, I believe that liberals play the "race card" at every opportunity, and if no opportunity, no matter how irrelevent, exists, they'll make one up.

At the same time, liberals are the biggest racists in this country.
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« Reply #58 on: April 21, 2006, 08:27:39 AM »
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Originally posted by beet1e
I think some people take this racist angle too seriously.

When I started on my first work assignment in the US, two of my colleagues were black guys - one from Charlottesville,VA and the other from Washington DC. Clearly humour was different in our somewhat contrasting cultures, but I thought I'd take a chance with the bikini girl joke -

Q. Why is a bikini girl like a roast chicken?
A. Because the white bits are always the best.

They weren't offended at all, and had a good laugh! Probably laughing at me for having told it, but no offence was taken at this arguably racist joke.


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 Brits are not held accountable in the states for bad humor, its expected.
Every Brit I know even the guy next door who was recently deported  have been the funniest most enjoyable jokers I have ever met... My only question is why does every Male Brit I know cheat on his wife and without fail get busted by the wife. Are Brit women that bad in the sack? I hang around at a brit pub and the normal average everyday conversation is who got caught sleeping with whom...
 
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« Reply #59 on: April 21, 2006, 12:48:25 PM »
IMHO, the very fact that someone is "offended" by this shows that it is the one who is offended that is the racist.

After all, it is the person who is offended that sees Ms. Rice as a "black woman" and not as the Secretary of State.
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