Really? Am I the Only One Who Thinks This?
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auntjennyp — 16 years ago(February 20, 2010 10:28 PM)
chaplin 7, you should have watched more than just the opening rap bit. I think you'd feel differently (and saved yourself some embarrassment) if you had bothered to see the WHOLE stand-up special before coming to this ludicrous conclusion.
Aisha certainly DID deal with her race (among other things) in her routine: the fact that she grew up in San Francisco, went to an affluent school where she was the first and ONLY kid who was black, the only one who was poor, the only one who, at six feet, towered over all the other kids. Now, she says, she gets crap for having a "California" accent "Which translates to 'I sound white.'" And so on.
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Jeb081387 — 16 years ago(March 07, 2010 06:51 PM)
lol.chaplin i kinda agree w/ you.but i think the bigger problem is that she's just not very funny.like i've seen some bad stand-up specials but that one was terrible.
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monkey-B — 15 years ago(April 28, 2010 03:52 PM)
wow at the majority of this thread and the direction they took ittalk about self righteous Dudly Do-Rights.
chaplin_7, i see you. where you're coming from from your point of view and i understand it.
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ShanaLD — 15 years ago(May 12, 2010 08:23 PM)
How exactly is she not proud of who she is?
I always find this kind of attitude funny coming from Black Americans. Why must she act a certain way to prove she is okay with being black? And what is with the American obsession with fitting into a specific box?
I am a black woman with a white husband. My two favorite bands are Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode. I grew up around mostly Mexican and white people in Southeast Texas. Does that mean I feel less about my race? I have personally had to deal with people like you all my life telling me that I speak like a white person or whatever just because I use proper English and actually lack a discernable accent (that actually comes from living all over the US and overseas and having foreign born parents).
Being different from the stereotype (and that is what "acting black" is) does not make you embaressed of who you are. -
elkston — 15 years ago(May 13, 2010 11:19 AM)
ShanaLD writes:
I am a black woman with a white husband. My two favorite bands are Nine Inch >Nails and Depeche Mode.
Did you ever give black guys5b4 a chance? There are some of us who don't "fit" into boxes either. -
ShanaLD — 15 years ago(June 17, 2010 04:00 PM)
Actually, I have dated guys of many backgrounds. I have dated Asians, Europeans, West Indians. I always figured, "why limit myself by something like color." If my husband was a black dude instead of a white dude, he would still very much be my husband.
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avalhon — 15 years ago(June 24, 2010 09:00 AM)
Wonderfully said, ShanaLD. Love is love, period. And being yourself is more important than anything. That's what narrow minded people don't get when they think they can force someone to just stick to a color. That's BS. There's not a way of being black or being white or being Asian or whatever. There's only a way of being a human being and being yourself. And I'm pretty sure Aisha does just that. And so do you. That's the human spirit.