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Black Power!

Probably means laughably bad Urban-African centered entertainment that P Diddy soullessly exploits.
 
Double standards really suck. Unfortunately, in modern North-American society, this sort of remark won't ever really provoke national attention. Citizens that have advocated "black power" are perceived as (more or less) harmless, due to a lack of several historical events of pro-black groups harming people of other races. Same cannot be said for white people. I think that is where the double-standard lies;]: when black people say "black power" people just kinda chuckle, whereas if a skinhead says "white power" then everyone cringes.

More importantly: P Diddy is easily one of my least favourite people in the world
 
Ben & Jerry's, the iconic ice cream brand famous for flavors borrowed from a broad swath of the culinary spectrum, has apologized for including fortune cookies in its "Taste the Lin-Sanity" frozen yogurt sold at a Harvard Square location in Boston.

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The Vermont-founded company has replaced the fortune cookies in its honey-swirl, Jeremy Lin-inspired variety with waffle cones.

"We offer a heartfelt apology if anyone was offended by our handmade Lin-Sanity flavor," Ben & Jerry's said in a statement.

Lin, the New York Knicks point guard who shot to NBA stardom this month after spurring a win streak in the absence of Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire, played four seasons for the Harvard Crimson before turning pro in 2010.

"We are proud and honored to have Jeremy Lin hail from one of our fine, local universities and we are huge sports fans," Ben & Jerry's said in the news release. "Our intention was to create a flavor to honor Jeremy Lin's accomplishments and his meteoric rise in the NBA, and recognize that he was a local Harvard graduate.

"We try (to) demonstrate our commitment as a Boston-based, valued-led business and if we failed in this instance we offer our sincere apologies."
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Should there have been an apology for this? I think not.
 
Archie Moses said:
Should there have been an apology for this? I think not.
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Fortune cookies are a Chinese-American creation, just like Lin.

What's offensive about it? There's nothing derogatory about fortune cookies.
 
dalamon said:
Double standards really suck. Unfortunately, in modern North-American society, this sort of remark won't ever really provoke national attention. Citizens that have advocated "black power" are perceived as (more or less) harmless, due to a lack of several historical events of pro-black groups harming people of other races. Same cannot be said for white people. I think that is where the double-standard lies;]: when black people say "black power" people just kinda chuckle, whereas if a skinhead says "white power" then everyone cringes.

More importantly: P Diddy is easily one of my least favourite people in the world
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Pretty sure everyone hates him. One of the worst rappers of notoriety and a terrible actor.
 
The N word is bad because of the historical context of the word while the C word ( like graham ******* lol) doesn't mean much because of the historical context.

It has nothing to do with my lifetime or your lifetime but we still gotta look at context of words.

Do I agree with it ? Not necessarily.


Also, the only reason he did it was to sound kind of racist. He was building up the white man can't jump thing and black power etc. His intention was to help a white guy on a skit. Like so that houston rockets guy becomes more "in your face" to Diddy.
 
White people have been bringing down black people for centuries and using the N word. They've been compared to apes and porchmonkey's with that term. The same can't be said about any word that describes a white person. Of course I think it only matters what context the word is used in, like saying it in a rap song or w/e is ok in my opinion (even though I'm not black and it's only my opinion) but saying it as an insult to someone is a different story.

Saying the history and context of a word not being important is ignorant.

So Sex and the f word can be used interchangeably since they mean the same thing?
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
The word cracker offends you?
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When I played ball for SLIC there were a couple a black guys on the team that would constantly talk down to the white guys on the team and call us crackers. It wasn't done in a joking way and was done in a derogatory way. I remember one time (during the off season) at Gold's on Red Wood Road, I had to hold myself back from swinging at one of them for being a bitch to other white kids playing ball and calling them "crackas."

Going back to my original point. If someone says something racest to try and put down another, then yeah, I have a problem with it whether it's about blacks, asians, whites, etc.

The world has a lot of problems because of racists ****ers.
 
Archie Moses said:
When I played ball for SLIC there were a couple a black guys on the team that would constantly talk down to the white guys on the team and call us crackers. It wasn't done in a joking way and was done in a derogatory way. I remember one time (during the off season) at Gold's on Red Wood Road, I had to hold myself back from swinging at one of them for being a bitch to other white kids playing ball and calling them "crackas."

Going back to my original point. If someone says something racest to try and put down another, then yeah, I have a problem with it whether it's about blacks, asians, whites, etc.

The world has a lot of problems because of racists ****ers.
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I can relate to that. Were you legitimately offend though, or just annoyed as hell? I'm 100% the latter.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
I can relate to that. Were you legitimately offend though, or just annoyed as hell? I'm 100% the latter.
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Dude, I'm all about having fun and laughing at jokes and stuff like that when it's all done in good nature. At first I wasn't offended, but then I realized they were legitimately saying it in a racist way then it offended me. They would say stuff like, "Cracka get me that ball." "Cracka thinks he can play with us." "Cracka don't shoot." Stuff like that.
 
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