Stuff White People Like?

Re-blogging a story covered at Fashion Indie because it made me too apoplectic to pass it up (Remember Lewis Black’s “Someone says the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard…and then it goes…in your ear!”)

This is way worse than when my Chinese American roommate from San Jose wore her FUBU shirt around campus because she had no idea what it meant.  That was, like, a sitcom-level misunderstanding (Balki Bartokomous, where art thou?  Borat is no comparison.)  This is like, well, um, hate crime level ignorance?  FUBU is like, an acronym that they may have skipped in “Black People Love Us 101″ but, um, you do know what slave means? Or “enslaved African,” I think is the person-first language term that docents at Colonial Williamsburg have adopted.  Right.  And, Obama is a phenomenon that we’re familiar with?  Hope? Change? Yeah, um, ironically identifying yourself as a slaver and fictional owner of the man who will hopefully be our next president, who you have probably heard is of African descent (Kenyan, to be more precise.  But I don’t see race…) well, that’s even more satirical than the lovely New Yorker cover that got so much ado.

That T-shirt is literally, figuratively, and every which way, fighting words.

And the IDF cap on the dude who apparently designed it just makes things more confusing.

- Ferrrosha