Yeah, I'm one of those people...
Wal-Mart Stores is shutting down the automated system that creates movie recommendations on its shopping website after the system randomly linked a Planet of the Apes DVD to films about African-Americans including Martin Luther King Jr., the company said Thursday.
Under "Similar Items," the page linked shoppers to four movies about the lives of the slain civil-rights leader, actress Dorothy Dandridge, boxer Jack Johnson and singer Tina Turner. It was manually changed by 5:30 p.m. CT to link shoppers instead to DVD sets of Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond and Star Wars.
And right before Martin Luther King Day. Tsk Tsk.
This reminds of the time where I saw an ad for the game Scrabble. I can't remember if it was a Walmart circular but the Scrabble game had some really offensive words spelled out on the board.
Nigga please. Things like this are far from coincidental. Incidents such as this are just clever tactics used to display the racists attitudes that still exist today. Yeah, sure alot of people have open minds today but that's for the public. You'd be surprised at how many of us are openly racist in private.
For example. My mom has always called Brazil nuts nigger toes.
I asked another black person at my job if they'd ever heard of nigger toes and they said no. However, a white chick overheard the question and over-zealously responded that she's not only familiar with the term but her family uses it all the time!
I was appalled to say the least.
All this reminds me of when I was in high school. I was the light skinned chick Black Panther Party chick who saw racism in practically everything. No, I didn't talk about things like, why must I go coo-coo for cocoa puffs or the why must the white ball dominate the black ball in a game of pool... No. I wasn't THAT person.
There was an incident where a black kid and a white kid were joking around. This conversation was anything but racial but the black kid unwittingly said to the white kid, "aw, go 'head wit dat nigga". Another white kid piped in saying, "how are you going to call him 'nigga'"
The black kid laughed it off and the conversation ended there. I pulled him aside and asked if he realized how racist that last comment was. He said no. I explained to him that the white kid figured you're considered more of a nigger because you're black.
He looked at me like I was a light bulb. He thought about it and said, "You think too much. You're one of 'those people'".
Under "Similar Items," the page linked shoppers to four movies about the lives of the slain civil-rights leader, actress Dorothy Dandridge, boxer Jack Johnson and singer Tina Turner. It was manually changed by 5:30 p.m. CT to link shoppers instead to DVD sets of Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond and Star Wars.
And right before Martin Luther King Day. Tsk Tsk.
This reminds of the time where I saw an ad for the game Scrabble. I can't remember if it was a Walmart circular but the Scrabble game had some really offensive words spelled out on the board.
Nigga please. Things like this are far from coincidental. Incidents such as this are just clever tactics used to display the racists attitudes that still exist today. Yeah, sure alot of people have open minds today but that's for the public. You'd be surprised at how many of us are openly racist in private.
For example. My mom has always called Brazil nuts nigger toes.
I asked another black person at my job if they'd ever heard of nigger toes and they said no. However, a white chick overheard the question and over-zealously responded that she's not only familiar with the term but her family uses it all the time!
I was appalled to say the least.
All this reminds me of when I was in high school. I was the light skinned chick Black Panther Party chick who saw racism in practically everything. No, I didn't talk about things like, why must I go coo-coo for cocoa puffs or the why must the white ball dominate the black ball in a game of pool... No. I wasn't THAT person.
There was an incident where a black kid and a white kid were joking around. This conversation was anything but racial but the black kid unwittingly said to the white kid, "aw, go 'head wit dat nigga". Another white kid piped in saying, "how are you going to call him 'nigga'"
The black kid laughed it off and the conversation ended there. I pulled him aside and asked if he realized how racist that last comment was. He said no. I explained to him that the white kid figured you're considered more of a nigger because you're black.
He looked at me like I was a light bulb. He thought about it and said, "You think too much. You're one of 'those people'".
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