...now that's cool.
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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...now that's cool.
This racist should be fired......
Black men must think black women aren’t as cool either. The first thing 90% of them will do if they have any success is dump their own race and try to get themselves a white woman.
THAT’S the writer?! Oh God, no! HAHAHAH, whooo, I thought it was Urkel. But no, it’s just Uncle Tom...
I have seen Remember The Titans probably sixty times - my all-time favorite movie, and that is not the message I got at all.
Far above Cayuga’s waters
There’s an awful smell
Some say it’s Cayuga’s waters
Some say it’s Cornell.
Sooooo cool.
Sinatra - forever cool.
LOL!!
I remember reading something about this, maybe on FR, that said “cool” started in the slavery days. Having the latest word, look, or other thing, kept the slave owners guessing. They could never “get it” or catch up. It was a reaction to authority that you couldn’t get out from under.
Now, though, not being cool may mean that you are the grown-up in the room. There are plenty of blacks who are “uncool”. Clarence Thomas? Ben Carson? Star Parker? If Dr. Martin Luther King were alive today, he might not be cool, either, nor even Malcolm X, when he was in his later “blacks should be responsible and self-sufficient” stage.
“Says the guy with Marge Simpson’s hairdo.”
The 90’s called, they want their “House Party” eraser head back.
Joe Cool says not.
Tribal mentality.
Whites for the most part don’t have a need to be a member of a tribe and try to impress other members of the tribe by looking ridiculous, blacks do.
Not too much different than “I’ve got a bigger bone through my nose than you do” that you still see in primitive tribes.
Uncool whites: BACK of the bus!!!
Since many abortions are performed on highly uncool children with Down Syndrome or facial deformities, maybe doctors should start saying “I’m afraid your child will be born White. You know, legally, there is still time...”
Give parents an option whether to let their hopelessly uncool white children live or not.
To some extent, “cool” is what the media/entertainment complex says it is. Cigarette smoking and disco music used to be way cool.
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