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apparently at 60% black you are "niggitylicious"

Goddamnit. I don't need to be this surly at 7:54 in the morning.

Jason, at least you were calm enough to be able to take the fucking thing.

I just looked at the questions and possible answers, and decided to be elsewhere.

I didn't actually take it, I just went to all the sites on blogdex that had.

Which was eye-opening, so as to make them wider so that I might rip them out, to say the least.

You're still a better man than I.

For the slower children in the class, opinions expressed represent those of the individual negroes, not those of the black community as a whole.

Seeing as there ain't no such animal to begin with.

Jason, man, I hear sporks are handy for popping out eyeballs. You get the satisfying little sound so often missed when only fingers are employed.

Plus, it's a spork, and they're always fun.

I read it, I cringed, I saw the answers, I cringed, I saw the comments on fark and I... well, I didn't cringe (this is FARK for godsake) but I wasn't real surprised. I was a little surprised Larry linked it up, but he'll link to anything.

Yeah, I took the damned thing. But I didn't link it up. *shrug*

i wonder if martin mull is going to post a "you might be a white person if..." quiz any time soon. his perspective always amused me, had that scandinavian sort of gallows-humor to it, and was a refreshing sort of antidote to the usual.

these people must have thought andrew dice clay was real funny, too.

Well, why not? There was a 'redneck test' floating around for a bit.

Meh.

I wonder if I would feel differently if this test wasn't so mean spirited and/or if it was developed by a black person (although I can't imagine this test being developed by someone black, it's missing some nuance that would suggest a connection to that nebulous thing called the African American experience). Martin Mull doing a "You're a white person if" thing would be a kind of social commentary right? And I bet the redneck test was done by a white person...

But, you know, after reading some of dru's recent commentaries on class, I wonder if I'd be comfortable at all with that redneck test anymore when thinking about the statement it makes about society.

THis stupid test now has Billy Paul's "Am I Black Enough For You" running through my head.

If only I could find the actual lyrics online.

Gah. Due respects to Dru (and I am serious here... no sarcasm intended!), we have to be able to make fun of each other somehow.

Sometimes I think my own definition of "the dream" will be when we can make fun of each other without being (or worrying about seeming) mean, nasty, or spiteful, and laugh along with everyone else.

I don't think it's a question of whether or not something's funny. I laugh at all kinds of inappropriate stuff all the time.

But, I think it's important though to understand why it's funny, what statement it's really making and how it fits in with the greater context.

I don't hope for a PC world where we don't make jokes. Not making the joke doesn't change the situation that's still a problem. Good comedy though, great comedy is often built on the pains and struggles of life. Many of which are socially constructed.

And all jokes have varying levels of humor based on one's experiences. Especially when the joke is at the expense of someone else.

the quiz reminds me of a name generator I'd seen a link to a while back, "find your black woman's name" or some such. I think the people who make stuff like this actually think they're having harmless fun. And that's what's so disturbing.

Starmama, yeah, I almost prefer outright hostility to the "can't you take a joke?" stuff at this point.

Jason, seeing as you said what I was thinking way better than I could have (which is why I didn't bother trying), maybe you can take this place over after you give yours to Honky Slut Warrior. . .

Scott, I always forget about FARK. I'd read the comments there on this, but then I'd feel the need to run out to buy a copy of "Final Call" and some bean pies from the NOI brothers on 79th & Stony Island.

I tend to want to take a shower after reading the FARK comments. After reading those particular comments, I think I would've paid the guys for their newspaper & pie too (they stand on the Mass Ave. offramp of 14th street in DC, or at least that's where I used to see them).

Scott, I gave in to the temptation. Jason, you maybe wanna not read this:

You are a SupaNigga (100% black)

Yo' fro is nappy, yo' teef is all gold, and yo' bitches are in check. Yo' ass don't fuck around, and all these cracka'-ass foos know that shit, fo' sheazy.

I might have to buy a bow tie and sell Final Call and bean pies. . .

Ugh. Aaron, why do you torture yourself like that?