Jumping from RG3 unchained to Django, Jamie Foxx is exposing the deepest darkest secrets of the black community.
He told Vibe magazine: ‘Cause as black folks we’re always sensitive. As a black person it’s always racial.
‘I come into this place to do a photo shoot and they got Ritz crackers and cheese.
‘I’ll be like, ain’t this a b***h. Y’all didn’t know black people was coming.’
In the same vein he explained that if he turned up to the photo shoot and there was fried chicken and watermelon, he would also be annoyed at the stereotype.
Jamie also admitted that he feels that he must act and talk in a certain way around white people and in his day-to-day job as an actor.
He told the magazine: ‘But the minute I leave my house, I gotta put my other jacket on and say, ‘Hey, Thomas, Julian and Greg.’ And I gotta be a certain person.
‘But when I get home my other homies are like how was your day? Well, I only had to be white for at least eight hours today, [or] I only had to be white for four hours.’
First we have an ESPN sports personality telling America that black people are skeptical of black athletes who act white, and now we have Jamie Foxx telling the world that black people are always taking offense to situations that may not be inherently offensive. Most white people already knew that, but it’s nice to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth.
This reminds me of a situation at my restaurant that occurred a couple of months ago. A table of eight black patrons were seated at the back of the restaurant at a time when the restaurant was empty. They were seated there because the computer system spits out a piece of paper that tells the host staff where to seat patrons. The hosts are basically mindless drones who respond to the directions of a machine. Some activist types have pushed for the use of non-human systems to allocate various resources i.e. jobs on the basis that computers are color-blind. So these patrons were clearly not the victim of racism. But they sat at the table for a minute and got right up and left all while mumbling to each other that it was ridiculous and racist that they were put at the back of the restaurant.
Here is another work story about misidentified racism at my job.
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What’s really ironic to me about the whole racism thing is that in order to be post-racial one must be blind to race, but if one is blind to race then one runs the risk of accidentally doing or saying something that someone of another race might find offensive. Therefore the actual effect of post-racialism is to cause everyone to pay even more attention to race instead of less because we don’t want to be mistaken for a racist. It actually increases race awareness rather than diminishing it.
Talk about irony, White Raven.
Jamie Foxx was happy to be introduced to the big boys table with Paul Newman by Tom Cruise. Then he rips apart a black comedian and humiliates the guy. Then his hairline changes. Then he makes rap albums and takes money from white kids. Then he goes unchained and kills white people in a movie directed by a white guy. Then he salutes King Obama. Then he’s black.
Foxxy is rabidly anti-white. Everything about him indicates this. The great irony is that if he was kicked out of white society, that too would be racist.
Damned if you let him in, damned if you exclude him. But that’s the whole thing and it depends entirely on white guilt. Remove your guilt and it has no power over you.
Something is changing in you Piggy. What is it?
@ White Raven
“…because we don’t want to be mistaken for a racist.”
There. That is your problem. Get over it.
“Well, I only had to be white for at least eight hours today”
He didn’t have to be white; he chose to be, because there isn’t much profit in being black 24/7.
If Jamie Foxx wants to sit around feeling sorry for himself, let him. It’s his life he is wasting. I bet a lot of black men would love to have his problems.
My last long comment in the previous thread is exactly about the likes of Foxx.
“Well, I only had to be white for at least eight hours today”
He’s saying it to a black audience. He’s doing the same thing as a married woman complaining to her spinster girlfriend “boy, husbands can be so much work” or a successful professional man telling his unemployed friend “man, working all those late hours sucks.”
Passive aggressive bitches, all of them along with Foxx the delicate black graft.
Unrelated:
I saw this pretty interesting article the other day: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/12/13/166953517/promiscuous-males-and-choosy-females-challenging-a-classic-experiment
I thought this was pretty interesting thinking back to Moldbug’s latest post: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2012/11/adore-river-of-meat.html, specifically the mention of the null hypothesis.
The NPR entry there is pretty triumphalist about questioning methodology in this older experiment, and seems to imply that the gender-equalitarian null hypothesis is correct. In other words, questioning this older research means we must fall back on our “null hypothesis” that men and women are equal in every way and there are no innate differences in sexual needs/desires/practices, only learned ones.
Of course this null hypothesis is actually a radical claim that requires radical evidence to support it, but that argument is never explicitly treated so skepticism is never aroused.
Cheese ‘n’ crackers is SWPL fare? Ya learn something new every day!
You should be embarrassed for never having heard the term “color-blind racism”. You aren’t supposed to be blind to race. You are supposed to be scornful and skeptical of whites, and completely tolerant of non-whites in whatever form they may come in and favor them over whites.
That is what “post-racial” means and that is what has been taught in colleges for 40 years. At no point in the history of the west has “color-blindness” been the paradigm of a progressive society free from hate.
That is what Republicans hear from Martin Luther King and imagine what is being said without actually knowing what the man in question or the Civil “Rights” Movement actually believed or was advocating for, which was the abrogation of the universal rights of whites in order to bestow special privileges upon blacks.
I don’t know how anyone could on one hand look at the obvious outcome of the Civil Rights Movement and “anti-racism” generally, which is a system of racial spoils, quotas, and the abolition of the right to free association and then on the other claim that the goal was to be ‘bind to race’.
No one wants you to, or has asked you to be blind to race and anyone who says that this is the case is fully delusional.
Black people are such boring, surly, narcissistic babies.
Why don’t you go cry some more, jamie.
So when this Jamie Foxx person (i have no real idea who he is) comes over to my place, what am i allowed to feed him?
Why doesn’t Jamie Foxx go to a country like Haiti where there are no white people, if we make his life so miserable?
See my long comment a “RG3 Unchained.” It’s becuse Jamie Foxx would not last five minutes in Haiti. His existence is dependent on whites. He’s just another contemptible member of the black Talented Tenth.
True story, some of the most ghetto Black people I know eat ritz crackers and cheese.
The biggest problem that a number of Black people have with quotes like the above from Fox is, you guys take one Black man to speak for 40 million Black people.
Many Black people who work in White collar settings as well as a number if whites I’ve encountered who come from working class backgrounds look at working in an office as 8 hours of code switching. There must be a set standard of behavior in any type of professional setting, this country is far to large and there are too many racial,ethnic & religious groups to let everyone do there own thing. So I can understand why there must be a universal standard of behavior in the office.
Now that I think of it, maybe Fox is talking about that things like that Jimmie Kimmel situation he had a few months ago where Jimmie made a joke “beat that bitch with a wipe” IIRC about the scene is Darango where Kerry Washington was beat with a wipe.For the record I hate that cross eyed bastard Jimmie Kimmel. Or how it seems that almost every Black man it Hollywood has worn a blonde wig and/or a dress save Sammeul Jackson and Denzel Washington.
To expand on code switching allow me to use my favorite immigrant in these parts as an example .
* chic noir smiles sweetly at PA*
*PA shakes head,exhales sharply, nostrils flaring*
If chuck,SOB1,my uncle MU and I were to go out to dinner and a chat, chances are we would eat the same types of food and converse in English. The next day,PA met up with some of his Polish buddies, the language spoken for most of the conversation would be Polish, many of the cliches used would be from Polish culture and I am sure they would probably go to a restaurant that serves Polish food.
Now is PA wrong for “going Polish” when around other Polish people …no. Most people behave differently when away from work and around “their own kind”. It’s the way of the world folks.
@dude
Jammie Fox is not a raper but an R&B/pop/ crooner type of singer.
Chic Noir what did we tell you about flirting with white boys. Give white buy chuck your contact we will cross you with a fine tall Dark Brother.
This is how crazy the myth of black oppression is: we’re supposed to believe that blacks are just as capable of building and maintaining an advanced civilization as whites and the only thing holding them back is white oppression and “white privilege” yet they force themselves to remain among their “oppressors” rather than hieing themselves to their own little corner where their liberation from white dominance would allow them to live the sort of good life equal to what you find in white areas. We’re expected to believe that their love of white people or their dedication to multiculturalism causes them to choose “suffering” and give up a substantial increase in income, political and cultural independence, etc. just to remain among whites. It’s a burden, but they’re willing to bear it! Hahaha!
@WhiteRaven: “…to be post-racial one must be blind to race, but if one is blind to race then one runs the risk of accidentally doing or saying something that someone of another race might find offensive.” Or run the risk of going places one ought not go or interacting w/ people one ought not interact with. Could result in a sever beating or worse.
CHick Noir,
I’m an immigrant, and here’s the thing about code switching… While the language, mannerism and tastes of the Eastern European me aren’t the same as those of the American me, I see both codes as authentically mine. And these two modes aren’t oppositional to each other. My co-ethnic friends and I don’t speak English or celebrate Thanksgiving grudgingly. We don’t see American customs, traditions,language and behavioral standards as belonging only to the Anglo descendants of the Puritans. These values and behaviors are American. We are American. We are other things too, but having to act American as opposed to Eastern European when dealing with the American public doesn’t feel forced, and we don’t resent it. To resent it would be to resent ourselves because while I’m expected to act a certain way, I expect others to act in this manner too.
When the general state of the country is being discussed, I feel included by default. It doesn’t occur tome to ask, “What about my interests?” because I see my interests as aligned with the general interests of this country. I’m American. I have another culture too, but this is also my culture.
Speaking standard AmericanEnglish isn’t “white”- it’s American. The standards of behavior in corporate America aren’t “white” either. Most people don’t act that way at home. IT’s normal for families and circles of friends to have their own personal traditions, slang, nick names, inside jokes, ect. It’s also normal for all these people to be fluent in the common standards and traditions of the larger culture tey all inhabit, so they could commuicate easily and work towards common goals. People can enjoy their little inside groups (metal heads, gun enthusiasts, the Miller family, Columbia class of 1983, black people, Japanese Americans) and still feel invested in and proud of theircountry. BEing expected to be an Amercan in America, while also being black, autistic,a NASCARfan or a violinist isn’t oppression. IT’s called being a good citizen. Acting differently in different settings isn’t being inauthentic. That’s what all socially adjusted people do. Your boss isn’t your boyfriend or your dad, and you are just as much you when you arebeing a daughter as when you are being an employee. The daughter you is probably more personal, loving, needy and selfless while the employee you is probably more emotionally under control, polite, mercenary,effecient and obedient. THat would be normal. Nobody assumes that the real you at work is the same as the real you in bed with your lover. THat wouldn’t be normal. Being expected to switch modes is a part of anyone’s successful existence in a civilized society. It’s not marginalization nor is it oppression.
P.S. A lot of immigrants, including many of my co-ethnics don’t feel American and take pride in expressing oppositional sentiments. I find them pathetic and feel no respect for such people.
@Maya – Just wanted to note that your comment is a nominee for blog comment of the year.
Surprised that no one has made the connection that Foxx’s petulant histrionics are completely aligned with the mental instability that manifests from a homosexual. Are homosexuals naturally more childish? The “Superhead” fan-fiction was a simple hoax – a well-paid “beard”, if you will. Jamie Foxx is gayer than Barney Frank’s teenage Chinese boytoy’s last Grindr conversation.
Of course he takes issue with “bullies” in some infinitely nebulous form. Foxx is just bothered that he is not paid tens of millions of dollars directly for his true passion: slobbering down cock and getting plugged in the asshole by hairy bodybuilders. It never occurs to him that in a way, he actually is.
Gay gay gay gay gay gay gay.
@Maya, what was your point??? You basically repeated back to me most of what I said.
*shrugs shoulders*
Chic Noir the skinny bad skin white female thinks she was steal a Black Womans accomplished knowledge and white boy sobl1 is in love with tricking ho. Typical devil ass thieving of our African minds. Come with our Soldiers girl.
Chic,
You are not a recent arrival to the United States. Your people have been here for hundreds of years.
Chick Noir,
My point was that it’s shameful to consider the standard cultural expectations and values of one’s own country to be foreign. Jamie Foxx stating that he has to be “white” while at work communicates his veiw that the standard American culture isn’t a part of his identity, and that white people getto enjoy being themselves at work while he has to twist himself into something inauthentic so he could comply with the white people’s norms. To me, that sounds like an outright rejection of his own country and countrymen. While I switch between the American and Easter Europea modes, I consider myself to be both. I don’t have to be American at work for 8 hours. I’m always American. I’m requied tolave my personal baggage and background at the door, like everyone else, but that’s different from having to pretend to be something I’m not. Unless Foxx sees himself as white as well as black, what he is saying is that the standard American culture isn’t his, but somebody else’s, and that he sees himself in opposition to those somebodies.
The whole business about the crackers v fried chicken doesn’t require n explanation to be seen as pathetic, right? Feeling offended by default and expecting others to see you as a race rather than a person is pathetic and shameful.
If you agree that the sentiments expresed by Foxx are disgusting then my apologies. I misunderstood you and thought that you excused his thinkking as normal.
@Laura- thanks, P.A. once said he was more American than I.
@promoting justice- my brother I’m cumming.
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Chic,
I don’t recall PA saying that. Even so, he has had black Americans, after they’ve heard his foreign accent, try to buddy up with him against white Americans. I can see why he would get the impression black Americans don’t identify as American. It does seem like you guys sometimes try to befriend anyone who isn’t a white American and turn them against us. I understand black and white Americans aren’t always going to agree, but that’s a weak move, trying to convince others we are prejudice against them.
P.A. says,
It’s becuse Jamie Foxx would not last five minutes in Haiti. His existence is dependent on whites. He’s just another contemptible member of the black Talented Tenth.
I’ve heard you echo this sentiment in other threds; I of course ultimately don’t know, but I get the feeling, P.A., that you’re somewhat projecting your white immigrant/working-class roots into your perspective on this matter.
Or, to the extent your correct, why would it be the ‘talented-tenth’ who’d just be vulnerable; wouldn’t all blacks or “NAMs” be?
I acknowledge there’s a incendiary relationship between NAMs and working-class whites, one that could always quickly go up in flames, but your dismissal of the ‘talented tenth’, or, for that matter, any outlier NAM group is merely a conceit to your class perspective —— not constantly evident or objective ‘truth.’
Heck, I have black friends who just looove to frequent the charming Polish bakery on weekends in the white-prole side of town!
“Heck, I have black friends who just looove to frequent the charming Polish bakery on weekends in the white-prole side of town!”
Someone should tell your black friends that Polish bakeries don’t sell 40s.
“Someone should tell your black friends that Polish bakeries don’t sell 40s.”
C’mon now; black outliers don’t ‘do’ 40s; we’re too busy overcompensating for something so typical and crass!
Nickrit you a Man Of Color. What is your mission in discussing with white boys. This blog has racist comments and we Police them. Are you aware of your duties brah
nikcrit,
The flip side is that you can get away with doing nerdy things without people thinking you are nerdy.
“you can get away with doing nerdy things without people thinking you are nerdy.”
Ha! Maybe so; It’s my guess that it’d be fair to say that I do a lot of things that are both ‘nerdy’ by white standards and ‘typical’ by black standards, particularly so in recent years where I work beside many more ‘inner-city’ blacks than I ever did before……..or maybe both at once: for instance, I played canastra the ohter day with a elderly white relative while I drank a can of Watermelon tea that a student left in my car. Lol!
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