NAACP: "You Mad, Bro?" Meme is Racist

Pundit Press ^ | 9/7/11 | Aurelius

[rightistight]

Please tell me there are more important things in this world than stamping out humorous internet memes.

According to the NAACP, the wide-ranging internet meme "You mad, bro?" is racist. The phrase, which is often used when someone loses a game or does something embarrassing, is coming under fire from the association because of a high school banner raised during a football game in Ohio.

The banner in question:

Rodderick Coffee, president of a local chapter of the NAACP, stated, “At the conclusion of the game, some of their students and parents put up a sign that we believe was racial intimidation, ethnic intimidation."

Of course, anyone who has ever been on the internet before knows that the phrase is not racist. In fact, even if you've never heard of the meme, chances are that you did not instantly think, "that's racist!" This is most likely because it is not racist.

[Ohioan]

The NAACP was set up by Socialistic Whites in 1909, to sabotage the work of Booker T. Washington, in his efforts to upgrade the lot of the Southern Negro by education & self-improvement, personal responsibility, etc.. While control was later transferred, the NAACP has always been a Fabian Socialist organization, promoting racial confrontation, not good-will. Once one understands that, the endless antics--such as that here described--make a lot more sense.

See, for example, How To Recognize The Bigot In The Argument.

William Flax

[Jack Hydrazine]

I do like how this song is made with the surfer’s words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgQ5BJTSv9U

[sodpoodle]

That makes sense: ‘Colored people’ does appear to be a term that (superior) ‘non-colored’ people would have coined....as opposed to the term ‘Negro’ a self-identity used by descendents of slaves.

IIRC - in the South there was no offense in using the term; ‘Negro’ - only the derogatory ‘nigger’.

Negro was then replaced by ‘colored’ and then ‘black’ and then African American....’bro’ being the newest PC term.

I have an idea - use ‘fellow Americans’.

[DeFault User]

IIRC - in the South there was no offense in using the term; ‘Negro’

True, but folks in normal conversations even with blacks used the word "colored". For some reason a lot of white Southerners had a problem pronouncing "Negro"--it came out sounding like "Negra" or "Negruh" but was not considered derogatory like the real "n" word.

[MEGoody]

The NAACP long ago abandoned the goal of advancing "colored people". Their only goal now is to try to convince blacks they are relevant by continually playing the race card. That way, they don't have to do any real work.

If the NAACP wanted to actually advance "colored people", they would work to solve the biggest problems facing the black community. Not too hard to find out what those are, and they have nothing to do with racism.

[MEGoody]

The National Association of Always Complaining People

I'm tempted to change my tagline, but I'm sure that would be considered racist.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Good post.

[momtothree]

My teen son and his friends use the term “bro”. I actually thought it came from a LAX term? Either way, I’ve heard white kids use it and black kids towards all other races... sort of like the term “dude” use to be used.

[Augustinian monk]

Rodderick Coffee, president of a local chapter of the NAACP, stated, “At the conclusion of the game, some of their students and parents put up a sign that we believe was racial intimidation, ethnic intimidation.”

OH, HE MAD!

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Didn’t you get the memo? Only blacks can say stuff they start.

Actually, that's a general rule for ethnic jokes, regardless of the group involved.

[OpusatFR]

I’m so tired of it that my reply is now, “Get over yourself. You aren’t the center of the universe.”

I’ve had it.

[goat granny]

According to the NAACP, shut up crackers, we are the only ones with free speech, even if it involves violence against all you whites....we OWN certain words, don’t you dare say them...

[ronnie raygun]

“resist we much and we will much about that be committed”....................bro

[<1/1,000,000th%]

How many whites are in the NAACP these days anyway?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Roderick must have hated "Semi Pro"