Posted on 04/15/2015 6:39:55 AM PDT by rightistight
According to a teacher at Cornell University, race is a determinant of "coolness."
Yesterday, Dexter Thomas, who is helping teach the course "Asian 1104 "FWS: let's talk about cool stuff, #swag"" at Cornell this semester, wrote an article in the Guardian titled, "Why white people aren’t as cool as black people."
According to Thomas, as opposed to whites, "Black people have an effortless cool about them, almost no matter what they do."
President Obama, Thomas continues, "seems to be the King Midas of political cool. Any topic he touches – whether it’s climate change, rap music, or health care – suddenly becomes hip."
"But this will never happen for Rand Paul, or most other Republicans," Thomas adds. Why? "This is because they’re white – and white people are not as cool as black people," Thomas writes unequivocally.
"Pity the conservatives: they will never win the cool war," he adds.
To be cool, according to Thomas, you must be part of an oppressed minority. "In the United States," he explains, "the most visible and easily understandable population of rejects is black people. This is why the bleeding edge of cool is always black."
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you said it before I did. Being “cool” is very very important.
He's actually saying that white people are more real, earnest, and genuine.
Deathrow Cool!!
Right! It SO helps to be ‘cool’ when you are standing in the welfare line. :)
I beg to differ. The homosexual agenda is slowly taking over that idea in US society. Gay is the new black and I think a lot of the African American community is going to start hitting hard times when they lose their competitive edge and have to earn their way through hard work and merit like whites, asians, and in many parts, hispanics.
Yep. Nothing less cool than being decent, hardworking, responsible and respectable. You certainly get no cool points for wearing your pants somewhere in the vicinity of your waist.
Don’t claim “coolness,” (don’t even care) but my Mom & Dad were two of the coolest in the world! So, I was born cool, what happened?
Also, my Dad was a snap-shooter with a shotgun, used a 30-06 with only iron sights, fought, and won Golden Gloves boxing in Detroit, was an apprentice jockey and flew a Curtiss JN-1 “Jenny.” And don’t forget, our Brit cousins brought on the word “Cool,” as in “Cool Under Fire.” Not a colored thing at all! Great!
“Black people have an effortless cool about them, almost no matter what they do.”
Key word in the comment is ‘effortless’ there’s never been much effort required from the majority of them...ever since 1965! If it is free...no worry...no effort required!
they can be
That’s definitely ‘cooler’ material.
Says the guy with Marge Simpson’s hairdo.
“Cool” must be defined by a majority, i.e. white people. Now why would white people choose the “most visible and easily understandable population of rejects” to be the Cool? Collapse of Christianity? Take-over of the educational establishment by insane leftists? Decades of political correctness creating minds that simply cannot criticize any minority so that lack of criticism finally morphs to Cool? Rebellious teenagers who now continue adolescence into their 30s?
Black “coolness” only continues until you get mugged or murdered by ferals.
Down Lo’ Bro’ I speak the jive!
DRAMATICALLY HIGHER INSTANCES OF:
Trauma to children
Accidents to children
Accidental ingestion of poisons by children
Abandonment of children
Sexual abuse of children
Abortion...
Pretty cool, all in all.
There are exceptions. Obama is rich, ignorant, and racist.
We all know what opinions are like, and that everyone has one.
“Cool” is just an opinion. I’d rather be me.
Mug shots can be cool!
Example: State Farm commercials
Two ladies, one white, the other asian come up to a pair of shoes, but the white lady has a cool black insurance agent how gives her enough of a refund to buy herself another bag (since the one she currently had was suddenly obsolete).
The asian lady asks for a refund, but her "old white guy" teases her with a dollar bill dangling from a fishing pole.
The other State Farm commercials are the same, white guy wrecks into cool black guy who has a nice insurance agent.
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