Appropriate? BLACK STUDENT HITTING PINATA SHAPED LIKE WHITE WOMAN

[Cancel 2018. 3]

PHOTO OF BLACK STUDENT HITTING PINATA SHAPED LIKE WHITE WOMAN CAUSES CONTROVERSY

The University of Memphis in Tennessee responded after a photo of a group of young black students about to hit a pinata went viral.

The reason for the controversy? The pinata in question was shaped like a white female hula dancer.

Local NBC affiliate WMC-TV reported the photo was taken Thursday during an annual luau-themed campus event to which local schoolchildren were invited.

“It didn’t look right, just because of the social climate we’re in right now,” University of Memphis student Veronica Birmingham, who took the photo, told WMC. “How could somebody be so insensitive and not realize this might cause an issue?”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/off...a-shaped-like-white-woman-causes-controversy/

 

[cawacko]

Eh, unless there was sinister meaning behind it we are not aware of it doesn't bother me. Maybe this happens every election season but it seems so many people are almost wanting to be offended so they can attack back in return. (random thought). I do not find it offensive.

 

[Onceler]

Can you imagine if this was a group of star-bellied sneetches doing it to a pinata of a non-star-bellied sneetch?

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

Eh, unless there was sinister meaning behind it we are not aware of it doesn't bother me. Maybe this happens every election season but it seems so many people are almost wanting to be offended so they can attack back in return. (random thought). I do not find it offensive.

i think it has more to do with the racial tensions in the country following the martin killing. i don't see it as a big deal, but can see how some would.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Eh, big deal. I'd swing at it too.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

just more of the Republican's war on women.....

 

[cawacko]

just more of the Republican's war on women.....

You know, you might be onto something. Instead of spinning it as a racial thing it could be viewed from the male/female perspective and this game is only encouraging boys to physically beat girls.

 

[RockX]

:lol:

So pinatas are a Hawaiian tradition? Who knew.

 

[Granule]

You know, you might be onto something. Instead of spinning it as a racial thing it could be viewed from the male/female perspective and this game is only encouraging boys to physically beat girls.

I think it was just a harmless game of young black boys swinging a stick at a white girl dolly hung by the neck.

 

[Airstrip One]

I thought all white women were pinatas.

 

[poet]

I wish it was me....I'd imagine it was Jan Brewer, and knock the mess out that thing. It would be such metaphor. LOL

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

I wish it was me....I'd imagine it was Jan Brewer, and knock the mess out that thing. It would be such metaphor. LOL

classy

 

[cawacko]

Think these kids were fans of The Prodigy?

 

[Granule]

classy

And racist.

 

[RockX]

I wish it was me....I'd imagine it was Jan Brewer, and knock the mess out that thing. It would be such metaphor. LOL

:lol:

Look who is still angry that a Republican white woman told off your boy and made him look like the fool he is.

 

[cancel2 2022]

Of course it could just be that they used the first thing that came to hand!!

 

[Granule]

Of course it could just be that they used the first thing that came to hand!!

Or it could be that they just don't like white people. Either way, I guess....

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

smack the white privilege out of that pinata!

 

[poet]

And racist.

Really? How? I don't hate Jan Brewer, because she's a white woman. I hate her because she's a racist, arrogant bitch, regardless of her color. How is that racist?

 

[poet]

:lol:

Look who is still angry that a Republican white woman told off your boy and made him look like the fool he is.

No, darling...it was the general populace that rallied around the president, with respect for the office, and not around your low tramp. Barack Obama is poised to be re-elected for a second term, despite it all.