
*Sigh* This comes from a CNN iReport:
At the most resent Pep Rally for Waverly High School, located in Waverly NY…three white students were to perform a skit in black face, depicting Chris Brown and Rhianna most notibly. In this skit they would display acts of domestic violence as satire to an audience that included not only students but parents, faculty, and various members of the media and community leaders. None of them stopped the skit. (Via)
SO. There’s a predictable (and rightful) amount of Internet rage, which is the most effective kind of rage, directed towards the students for staging the sketch and the school’s administration for not thwarting said staged sketch, and yet, no one’s complaining about the umbrella “Chris” is holding. Ugh, kids today, with their unnecessary prop comedy.
ANYWAYS, this story is honestly so f*cked up that I can’t even begin to comprehend a reasonable thought, so let’s see what other people are saying about the incident.
It’s the big picture…….stop looking through the straw….. Its not about racism idiot. it’s about wholesome activities in a school setting…DUMDUM!! (Via)
He makes a good point. Nothing says “wholesome” like a bunch of white kids, in a school that apparently doesn’t have a single black student (judging by the banner image), reenacting the time a guy beat the crap out of his defenseless girlfriend. I think the same thing happened in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show. In related news:




Ugh, New York is the worst.
I was honestly thinking we were about to play another round of “Ohio or Florida”.
This is right on the border, so I’m counting it as PA…
Remember how everyone was disgusted by this when it first happened and no one thought it was funny, at all?
Yeah, that was nice…
Wow. I think everyone had to of been too stunned to move. (Looks at faces) Wait, they’re all laughing. Sometimes, I hate being white.
No, see, this is actually a post-modern display of the struggles of women trying to raise a family inBUT SERIOUSLY HOW DID YOU THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA.
He’s gonna ruin that umbrella.
Here’s the thing….kids are idiots.
And this isn’t racist, just stupid.
Here, let me help you out here. When WHITE PEOPLE color their skin to look like BLACK PEOPLE….
Dan, No.
If Always Sunny has taught us anything, it’s that blackface can be done thoughtfully.
Ah, now I see. Thanks for spelling that out so clearly.
Am I supposed to know who Chris Brown is? If he or she actually went to this High School, then this would make more sense, because make it would encourage more of these kids to start beating each other. (smiles) Hey, I can dream cant’t I? I thought Chris Brown was married to Whitney Houston…
I just don’t understand this on so many levels. Even if you want to forget the racism, it still doesn’t begin to make sense. Domestic abuse is still wrong and has nothing to do with sports unless you’re talking about what the Broncos did to the Chargers late yesterday evening.
Maybe this school’s main rival is the West Lake Rhiannas?
Have you watched the movie WHITE CHICKS. Face it most racist people in the US are black.
If they didn’t have any black people in their school to perform the skit, then no one would have understood the allusion.
*The blackface was out of comedic necessity people!
*Sarcasm