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06.19.09 ‘IT’S NOT LIKE YOU’RE *REALLY* BLACK’

Today’s entry in the “Oh my God, I can’t believe there was a time when it was okay to put this on television” file is a clip of scenes from the ’80s PBS show “Many Voices, Many Visions” in which a little white girl with a perm gets teased by her peers for looking like a black boy.  Fortunately, she’s got the world’s best mom to comfort her.  After Mom tells the little girl, “It’s just a perm, it’ll grow out,” she adds, “It’s not like you’re really black.”  Phew!  That would be way worse!  Thanks, Mom!

[via BuzzFeed, although Mental Floss included it in a feature a while back]

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There are 17 comments about:
‘IT’S NOT LIKE YOU’RE *REALLY* BLACK’

June 19th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Lenny says:

“Its okay, at least you’re not a stinky Mexican!”

June 19th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Enrico Pallazzo says:

I knew that I was not really black the first time that I took a bath.

June 19th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Burnsy says:

THAT’S A FUCKING GIRL?!?!

June 19th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
StuScottBooyahs says:

“Mommy, they said I look like that black mailman that keeps visiting you.”

June 19th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Yamabushi says:

“Are you sure mom? Because I was late for my after-school job.”

June 19th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Burnsy says:

“How about we prove them all wrong and go swimming?”

June 19th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Vodka Cannon says:

“Of course you’re not black, your father is standing right there.”

June 19th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
BlackToothGrin says:

In the immortal words of Rick James… Cocaine is a hell-of-a drug!!!

June 19th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
CrabApple says:

“You dont look like a black boy. You look like a Jew. A cheap little Jew. Now go do my taxes while I go lay out some slacks and a tie for my little girl to wear to school tomorrow.”

June 19th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
mathesond says:

We won’t be seeing THAT clip during pledge drive

June 19th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Leapin_Lizards says:

“Now you can grow up to be President!”

June 19th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
AEVC again says:

“We must settle this the gypsy way”

CUT TO: 2 hot sluts stripping off and grappling to bombastic music

Yeah, not really apropos of the above, but, y’know, hot sluts grappling.

June 19th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Duke of Madness says:

Ahh, nostalgia. How this takes me back to the casual racism of the eighties.

White people still suck, though.

June 19th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
J.L White says:

/looks at my own crotch

Now I’m sure that I’m *really* not black.

Because my dick is white, you see. Nothing else!!!

June 20th, 2009 at 9:19 am
scott peterson says:

whats wrong with that kid? he looks like a little negro

June 20th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Casey says:

I don’t get it…is that not a little black boy?

June 20th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Kay says:

Wow shes even more annoying here then on ready or not…

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