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StroudCrowd1 · 12-04-2020, 04:38 PM

(12-04-2020, 04:25 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: I saw a T-shirt on sale in a mall kiosk last week. In stylized font it said "Black and Educated".

Honest question. What are the expectations of people's reaction to that? It left me baffled.

Sounds like something from the Capitalist AOC collection.

https://shop.ocasiocortez.com/collections/sweatshirts

captivating · 12-06-2020, 03:23 AM

(10-18-2020, 10:38 PM)Sneakers Wrote: Forget grades. Let's just give everyone a participation trophy and ice cream.

We've gone there where we have graduation ceremonies for elementary school.

Leave the graduation ceremonies with robes and gowns to university grads where it's actually an achievement.

captivating · 12-06-2020, 03:49 AM

(12-04-2020, 04:25 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: I saw a T-shirt on sale in a mall kiosk last week. In stylized font it said "Black and Educated".

Honest question. What are the expectations of people's reaction to that? It left me baffled.

Sometimes you have to be blunt to break through the stereotypes, such as this joke which was common many years ago (modified as the actual joke is quite rude):

There is a white boy, a Mexican boy, and a black boy who are all in the fifth grade. Who is the tallest? The black boy, because he's 18.

That T-shirt is a response to racism.

StroudCrowd1 · 12-06-2020, 09:40 AM

(12-06-2020, 03:23 AM)captivating Wrote:
(10-18-2020, 10:38 PM)Sneakers Wrote: Forget grades. Let's just give everyone a participation trophy and ice cream.

We've gone there where we have graduation ceremonies for elementary school.

Leave the graduation ceremonies with robes and gowns to university grads where it's actually an achievement.

Wow, I actually agree with captivating.

**flsprtsgod** · 12-06-2020, 09:53 AM

(12-06-2020, 03:49 AM)captivating Wrote:
(12-04-2020, 04:25 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: I saw a T-shirt on sale in a mall kiosk last week. In stylized font it said "Black and Educated".

Honest question. What are the expectations of people's reaction to that? It left me baffled.

Sometimes you have to be blunt to break through the stereotypes, such as this joke which was common many years ago (modified as the actual joke is quite rude):

There is a white boy, a Mexican boy, and a black boy who are all in the fifth grade. Who is the tallest? The black boy, because he's 18.

That T-shirt is a response to racism.

So you see it as the capitalist response of, "Nuh Uh!!!!!!" then?

“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato