THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Howard Alan Treesong on January 24, 2008, 06:21:46 PM
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I read the last line as "just like MLK's a little bit white" four times before I saw it was actually "milk." I can't imagine this was accidental, given the timing and reference to the Rvnd. earlier in the strip.
Is MLK considered "white" by the black community?
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I'm not black, but I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood, and what I noticed was that MLK was considered soft. Many distinguished black fellows in my 'hood preferred Malcolm X and his ideals of separation and advancing those ideals by ''any means necessary'' as much more appealing than "I have a dream".
Also there is a huge stigma amongst some the inner city distinguished black fellows that equates eloquence, oratory ability, academic prowess, which MLK had, as being white.
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Come on, haven't you guys read Himuro's posts?
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I honestly thought he was joking.
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At the end of the day, Malcolm denied separation. He, still, however, held the belief that blacks should gain their rights by any means necessary, and not that lame ass marching shit.
Yes MLK is considered soft. Back in the 60's you had blacks being lynched and had fire hoses on them and the guy uses the turn the other cheek philosophy. That's not going to get you anywhere.
Establishing laws wouldn't change the racist mindset, Malcolm realized this.
Also there is a huge stigma amongst some the inner city distinguished black fellows that equates eloquence, oratory ability, academic prowess, which MLK had, as being white.
Irrelevant. Malcolm is looked up to and he has all of that and more.
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See?
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Did you read his Autobiography? Fantastic stuff.
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I think this Curtis could be the most awesome "is it or isn't it" culture war since
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Did you read his Autobiography? Fantastic stuff.
Yes!
It's not that we don't respect MLK; we do. It's just annoying how MLK really didn't speak for us as a people and yet he's all you ever hear about when someone who brings up the civil rights era. A lot of us had to learn about the other greats by ourselves, which is ridiculous.
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it's true, I had never heard of Malcom X until Himumu started talking about him here on EB
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it's true, I had never heard of Malcom X until Himumu started talking about him here on EB
QFT
And MLK really didn't have any effect. That pussy bullshit got them nowhere. What the fuck was he thinking? Trying to change white people's mindset about blacks being violent animals by advocating peace. smh
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bobobobobo it's better to SCARE than to SUBVERT
PRIDE AND MASCULINITY
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bobobobobo it's better to SCARE than to SUBVERT
PRIDE AND MASCULINITY
MLK was the MJJ of the 60's.
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MLK was the MJJ of the 60's.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan???
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Michael J?????? Jackson
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I see Michael Jordan as a uniter, so i'm going with that.
That's what the white man wants you to think about MLK
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I see Michael Jordan as a uniter, so i'm going with that.
Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden suggests that Jordan will betray his race and join up with the white Man as soon as the B-Ball Control Department is established in the post-cyberpocalyptic future of 2041. So the analogy seems sound.
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Also there is a huge stigma amongst some the inner city distinguished black fellows that equates eloquence, oratory ability, academic prowess, which MLK had, as being white.
mlk, cracka azz cracka
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I think this Curtis could be the most awesome "is it or isn't it" culture war since
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i seriously don't see this as anymore than a poop joke
i know that people talk about the crescent moon and such, but jeez, i just don't see it
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Where does Bill Laimbeer fit into all of this?
Bill Laimbeer became commissioner of his NO RULES basketball league in 2030, so I'd imagine that he was one of the first against the wall in the Great B-Ball Purge of 2041.
In fact, I'd imagine that Shut Up and Jam Gaiden treats BLCB as canon, and that Laimbeer's violent nature and desire to push the limits of what was acceptable in professional sports was was one of the primary factors leading up to Barkley's infamous Chaos Dunk and B-Ballnacht.
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I see Michael Jordan as a uniter, so i'm going with that.
Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden suggests that Jordan will betray his race and join up with the white Man as soon as the B-Ball Control Department is established in the post-cyberpocalyptic future of 2041. So the analogy seems sound.
Best post ever
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it's true, I had never heard of Malcom X until Himumu started talking about him here on EB
Malcom X was real!? Woah, I thought he was just a character in a movie, like Gandhi or JFK.
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i seriously don't see this as anymore than a poop joke
the interstital sound effect is odd and out-of-character enough that I'm willing to believe the ||SLAM interpretation
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I agree with Patel, it doesn't really work as a joke. The Islam interpretation is the only one that actually makes the comic make any sort of sense.
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The problem is that the Islam interpretation doesn't really make sense or have any punchline either, but I guess still the most likely.
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It's just a commentary to the effect of "Islam sucks! I'm a Christian fundie!"
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Pimp > Cheating husband.
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It's just a commentary to the effect of "Islam sucks! I'm a Christian fundie!"
How much money does he make off these strips, and how can I get a job creating oblique yet banal expressions of my generic identity?
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It's just a commentary to the effect of "Islam sucks! I'm a Christian fundie!"
How much money does he make off these strips, and how can I get a job creating oblique yet banal expressions of my generic identity?
As has to be noted every time this comes up, this isn't the ONLY time Hart has made pointless religious commentary. He has a HISTORY of stupid, senseless religious shit. See:
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Like, wha? Why would you even make this comic? I'm not even sure what his fucking point is. I'll just go with the safe bet: Judaism sucks.
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I agree with Patel, it doesn't really work as a joke. The Islam interpretation is the only one that actually makes the comic make any sort of sense.
IT IS A MODERN MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPER COMIC
it doesn't have to work as a joke
How much money does he make off these strips, and how can I get a job creating oblique yet banal expressions of my generic identity?
well he's dead, so not much
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bobobobobo it's better to SCARE than to SUBVERT
PRIDE AND MASCULINITY
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I just wanted to bump this thread because Patel's posts are fucking incredible. :lol
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I think this Curtis could be the most awesome "is it or isn't it" culture war since
i seriously don't see this as anymore than a poop joke
i know that people talk about the crescent moon and such, but jeez, i just don't see it
What's the crescent moon symbolize? Islam or something?
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Why is Himuro speaking on behalf of the African American community?
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He brings up a good point. There was a lot of discussion last weekend over whether MLK's legacy had be simplified to one sentence - I have a dream. MLK was definitely a great civil rights leader, but he wasn't the only one, and he had more to say than the dream speech.
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The fact that he has a sentence is enough in itself. A lot of times, leaders wink out of existence, regardless of catchy one-liners. People are too dumb to remember more than one thing about a person at a time :/
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I think this Curtis could be the most awesome "is it or isn't it" culture war since
i seriously don't see this as anymore than a poop joke
i know that people talk about the crescent moon and such, but jeez, i just don't see it
What's the crescent moon symbolize? Islam or something?
either that or south carolina
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The problem is that the Islam interpretation doesn't really make sense or have any punchline either, but I guess still the most likely.
I think you just described Johnny Hart's modus operandi.
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Lol, comic strip writers lose their funny after a while.