He gets it.
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He gets it.
lol. Your friends suck then and you're taking the word out of context. The problem with racism and talks like we're having right now is the seriousness surrounding the differences that make our cultures. I love ethnicity. Look at the Olympic thread - it's probably the quality I feel was most misrepresented at the olympics this year and a missed opportunity. I've had talks about this with friends from different ethnicity (mostly black, asian and spanish) and they all react the same way. If you take this shit so seriously it defeats you and drags you down. You get caught up on a word and not the person, situation or intent. That's why I can joke around with my friends about race and they don't take it seriously. It's not like I'm dropping nigger every day. But if it happens and the situation is open for it we'll all go for it.
But then again if they did take it seriously I doubt they'd hang out with me afterwards, anyway. Nor would I want them to. If I want to be bitched at for swearing and making jokes about dead olympian lugers I'd say that in front of my family. When I'm hanging out with friends all bets are off. Works both ways though. I don't get bitchy when someone treats me like an ignorant white guy when I am, indeed, being an ignorant white guy.
Casual acquaintances at a party laugh politely when you say something unfunny to keep you from feeling uncomfortable. Real friends will rub your face in your comedic failures and create something far more funny in doing so. Friends are the people you trust to be cruel when called upon.
He said he was saying "why a brother got to spit-shine yo shoes" earlier before the vid started, probably just loudly grousing at no one in particular, as hrd ngrs tend to do on public transit. The white dude evidently misheard and thought it was he was proclaiming a service he was offering.
Honestly I think he was just trying to be facetious with the "chinaman" remark, as well.
I would love to hear Reilly's take on this.