Real life testaments from black friends of the makers of the website that black people do indeed love them…
Some people are just nuts.
I’m still laughing!
whats up with that?
yeah I’ve already seen that… clever
The funniest thing about that site is the comments from all the idiots who don’t understand that it’s a satire… it’s like our country has no sense of humor about race.
No, scratch that. People are just stupid. Really, really, really, really embarrassingly stupid.
Like Ali G/Borat, who has recently threatened with legal action by the nation of Kazhakstan…
I think the comments are more interesting than the site. It reveals the various ways in which people think about race and racism. Here’s one that particularly pissed me off:
“I’m not sure how to interpret your website, but the initial connotation is to be offended as an african american.”
It seems as though this (stupid) woman thought that her black “identity” was more important to understanding the site than the content of the site itself. “Heck, who knows what the site is saying, but since it’s a site with whites talking about blacks I’m pretty sure I should be offended. Right?” Personally, I feel that her identity as an embarrassingly stupid person was the real important ingredient in her understanding of the site. And I wonder how prevalent this form of racist thinking is – to understand things first in terms of your racial or ethnic “identity” rather than on an individual human level. Just another excuse to avoid thinking from your average lazy american…
Hilarious. A mockery of whites and blacks, and I only wish I had more time this morning to read those letters. To me, it was so clearly a spoof but raised some very serious issues from both sides. I would be curious to know the race of its creator, but I have an inkling.
What would be your inkling? We could contact the people who made the site (I seem to remember an e-mail address) and ask them…
yeah people will get pissed about anything if it’s even slightly presented as “truth,” even if it’s OBVIOUSLY a joke. a good example is realultimatepower.com. or maybe .net. i can’t remember. but so many people write in saying ‘YOU DONT NOW WHAT THE HEL YOUR TALKING ABUOT’ all the time
yeah i checked it it’s realultimatepower.net
SIATD,
I think this is a mockery of both races, but it seems that:
-Blacks would get it the most because they live this nonsense.
-Prejudiced whites would not be able to laugh at themselves and thus have it feed further into their hate and disdain, never really seeing the spoof… and see it only as the truth.
I think there is a possibility that a black person created it to have those types of “Aryans” look hard at themselves in the mirror. Well done if that is the case. Created by either, it is thought provoking.
That guy wrote a book after the site. I read it when I saw it at Borders, and I couldn’t stop laughing.
I think the site means “lighten up” everyone. Paranoia abounds, I suppose.
Very much so. I really like this comment. I think, one of the main reasons why the subject of race has become either taboo, or controversial, and always invidious is because of those people who act on impulse and always vigilant to police every word or nuance said, and always on a one-sided view: their own ethnicity.
As an aside, people who cannot laugh at their own, or other people’s follies will die of hardening of the arteries soon. 
A different example
In my local curry house last night, waiting for my peshwari nan, a drunkard tried to leave without paying and was dragged back inside and forced to pay by the two gents (of middle eastern descent but English origin) who run the front of house…
During the altercation the drunkard tried to make some sort of local/racial issue out of it and was embarassed when the manager pointed out that he was from Keighley, which is less than 20 miles from here.
What interested me is that even though the drunkard was a typical white northern european and therefore in the racial and cultural majority he still retreated to simply asserting some spurious notion of identity associated with his race. Usually it tends to be minorities which do this. A sign of changing times, perhaps…
I have a question posed to anyone outside the states: Most of the stereotype shown in this homeboy vs. whitie site is culturally American… am I right? IOW, does your country see these stereotypes as American, or is the spoof a worldwide issue? I think the trying history of the African-American juxtoaposed against their once Plantation-owning neighbor has lended itself to come to this funny but uncomfortable commentary on racism.
So, is the joke on the US as a nation? Or not.
Wow… that brings back memories. That’s been on the net since Al Gore invented it… and its still just as funny
Hi Bess,
Yes, the stereotypes are typically American, but unfortunately it transfers well to any country with a politcally correct minority and a bunch of over zealous, condescending do gooders.
[size=150]hi km… I’ve missed you![/size]
[size=75]you just sneak back in here thinking we wouldn’t notice, eh? [/size]