im not a racist

[Juliette]

i say this is a highly profesional attitude compared to that day

It may be professional compared to then, but it still is unprofessional. I recommend you cool down right now and form a coherent argument explaining in detail why you set a racial context ("Oh massa") and threw the image in to try and see how long you could sneak out from under the rule against 'racism'.

[ANIMAL MOTHER]

julie i love you, so i will heed your advice and calm down and take a break from this....


but i wasnt trying to crawl away from racisim it never was racisim to begin with

and to prove that to you ill pm you my msn and you can name ANYTHING and i will explain how it COULD be taken as racist in the usa where EVREYTHING is racist

[ANIMAL MOTHER]

sighs

First off, You, like Roket did(who knows better now) think that I hate them, which is false, I don't hate anyone I don't even dislike you actually.

Secondly, I never said, with that warning, that you were racist, instead that your 'ooc' text along with your signature related to a racist context, at least here in the USA.

Also, to correct you, fried chicken does not relate at all to fat white women, instead if also relates to African Americans in a derivative manner along with watermelon.

now that i am calm..... i do think we should talk of this more privatly via msn

balthazarthegreatsgw@hotmail.com

[ANIMAL MOTHER]

pm's are to slow

maby we can work somethin out maby we cant.... but im willing to ATTEMPT to make peace

[Juliette]

pm's are to slow
maby we can work somethin out maby we cant.... but im willing to ATTEMPT to make peace

This isn't a negotiation, AM. Reaching staff usually works best on their own terms.

[ANIMAL MOTHER]

pm's are to slow
maby we can work somethin out maby we cant.... but im willing to ATTEMPT to make peace

This isn't a negotiation, AM. Reaching staff usually works best on their own terms.

reaching me works on mine, im not lookin to play a 2 hour game of cat and bouse when a 12 minit convo could work just as well

[Juliette]

pm's are to slow
maby we can work somethin out maby we cant.... but im willing to ATTEMPT to make peace

This isn't a negotiation, AM. Reaching staff usually works best on their own terms.

reaching me works on mine, im not lookin to play a 2 hour game of cat and bouse when a 12 minit convo could work just as well

You forget, that it is not the staff who needs to reach you, but you who need to reach the staff. Or so I deduce from the thread so far.

[ANIMAL MOTHER]

thats beside the point


now back to it


from what i understand there was nothin wrong with my sigie but only the caption

simple solution remove the caption and talk to me about it

this whole dealy could have taken 10 seconds to sort out but it had to be like this


i want my siggie put back and the warnin removed

my peace or non peace with eary has nothing to do with this and will be kept off this thread atleast till the saidf peace has been maid or not maid

[Clarkey]

this whole dealy could have taken 10 seconds to sort out but it had to be like this

Exactly, and you created this situation. You had the power to sort this out in 10 seconds but you chose to create a huge scene instead. I hope you come to some sort of resolution and learn from this.

[ƒëmmë]

Thanks for the underlined part Clarkey, and making us aware hahaha

I never said I supported the action taken, just confirming what the issue actually is. In fact, I did not know watermelons had any link to racism until I saw this issue.

Ahh same here
Was not trying to pull your leg or anything, was just funny

I have to say this watermelon situation has a very high rofl-factor

had no idea either, and will google it cos it seems very weird to me :s...

Guess we will be banning the use of rainbows, frogs, cows, bacon and other sensitive objects in future?

personally I associate watermelons with Jennifer Grey in the movie dirty dancing..

[ANIMAL MOTHER]

Thanks for the underlined part Clarkey, and making us aware hahaha

I never said I supported the action taken, just confirming what the issue actually is. In fact, I did not know watermelons had any link to racism until I saw this issue.

Ahh same here
Was not trying to pull your leg or anything, was just funny

I have to say this watermelon situation has a very high rofl-factor

had no idea either, and will google it cos it seems very weird to me :s...

Guess we will be banning the use of rainbows, frogs, cows, bacon and other sensitive objects in future?

personally I associate watermelons with Jennifer Grey in the movie dirty dancing..

trust me inn usa there is not a single word not attacked to a derogatory comment

[Psyko]

I would appreciate it if everyone who has posted here take a break and let me sort this out for a few moments.

~Psyko

[Jack]

apparently fried chicken and watermelons are racist in the USA.

It's not straight up racist. But racists associate watermelons, fried chicken and koolaid to the black community. As you said, the signature is assigning the watermelon to the black man. The massa bit alludes to slavery and to the black community being uneducated. It's a popular phrase for racists when mocking the black community as being uneducated and subservient to the white community. And since he wants so badly to associate this blatantly racist signature with his multi, the multi then also becomes blatantly racist.

It's not a matter of just having some watermelons and a black guy. It's not about a black person eating watermelon. Though that in it's own right just falls right back into racial stereotyping. It's the way the quote was worded, combined with what the quote was saying and then associating that quote with a black man.

Personally, I'd be willing to accept the argument of ignorance and defend the OP, had it not been for the quote. However, every last bit of the signature just plays right into the whole racial stereotypes of uneducated black individuals having an insatiable appetite for watermelon.

In the end, when I call something racist and wrong, you should probably just give up. You're likely going to have the whole world against you at that point.

[~Dä Vinci~]

wow never thought a thread about watermelons could get so long

[Psyko]

Really guys?!

If you want to actually discuss this, take it to the debate section. Don't make me split topics and move this on my own. Be mature about this and take it up elsewhere.

kaythanksbye