Overheard28 Sep 2005 02:08 pm
Andrew Ridgeley & Art Garfunkel
The Reverend Jesse Jackson was holding a press conference in the appliance department of a Sears store in Chicago. He was there to protest the fact that all the washing machines were white. So the clerk called the store manager, who asked, “What’s the problem here, Reverend?” Jesse pointed at the machines and loudly bemoaned the fact that all of them were white. The manager replied, “Well, Reverend, it’s true that all the washing machines are white, but if you’ll open the lids, you’ll see that all the agitators are black.”
Oh SNAP! Damn.. Race riots in Sears, story at 11.
Hahahahahahahahaha!
You wouldn’t say that to his face. I’ve seen him in person. He is massive.
When Lemon sent that over I almost fell out of my chair. I wish I could have posted it, but looking at those I work with…
Well…it wouldn’t be pretty if…well…you get the idea!
Here’s to your Cojones amigo!
This is an urban legend, and an old one, not that you care.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/jackson.asp
I did not put this up thinking it was a factual account. Funny, of course, but not factual.
Uh huh. So you put up an unreferenced, unqualified anecdote, and further neglected to correct any of the commenters who obviously took it as fact? Right.
It was funny to you because, like all urban legends, it confirms your stereotypes… which is also why you couldn’t be bothered to fact-check it, either. That makes you both lazy and stupid.
So you put up retarded, unexplained flame bait, and further neglected to notice that it was A FUCKING JOKE.
Piss of you jackass, everyone got the joke but you. Lighten up and get a sense of humor. If you don’t like the article or the website, GO THE HELL SOMEWHERE ELSE.
My $.02
I am not stupid, and I am not lazy. I did not bother to fact-check something I knew wasn’t true.
I appreciate that as the “fact-finding blog policeman”, you have caught me not properly labeling a joke.
Did you get the title of the entry? “Andrew Ridgeley and Art Garfunkel”? Apparently not. They are both JOKES. I put a post up earlier today on just that. If you look at the rest of my blog, you will see that when I want to be factual, I actually do take the time to reference things.
I conclude that you must have thought that this was a real incident. I hate to break it you, but not all appliances are white anymore. In fact, there have been black appliances at Sears since the mid-90’s. I know, because my parents bought a black Kenmore washer and dryer back in ‘96.
If you will notice, not everyone thought that it was real. Smokin’ knew it was a joke, as he laughed. Psy_Guy knew it was a joke, because he got it in an email the same time I did. Haggis may or may not have known it was a joke, but his comment “Race riot at Sears, story at 11″ seems to indicate that he at least found it humorous.
My stereotypes are confirmed everyday; I do not need a silly story about washing machines to show me what I already know to be true:
Leaders (black or white) typically play the race card to do the following things:
1) stay in power
2) appeal to their power base
3) keep people in their power base by using race as an “them against us” tactic.
This is true both in the 1988 Bush/Dukakis election (Willie Horton) as well as today in situtions like Hurricane Katrina.
Whether this story is true or not, most all of the agitators nowadays are black. I don’t hear too many white politicians pulling the race card out. It’s politically untenable for a white politician to go there anymore. If you disagree, then answer me one question:
Why is okay to for a black person to call another black person a “nigger” but not okay for a white person to call a black person a “nigger”, even if it used in the exact same (non-threatening) connotation?
The answer: Because black people will accept being called names by another black, but not by a white person. If that isn’t racism, I don’t know what is.