Black People Love Us
If ever a website made you want to cringe with embarrassment, Black People Love Us will do the job every time.
Warning to the humourless: This is a spoof website.
Sally and Johnny are a middle-class white couple who find that they are well-liked by black people:
We are well-liked by Black people so we’re psyched (since lots of Black people don’t like lots of White people)!! We thought it’d be cool to honor our exceptional status with a ROCKIN’ domain name and a killer website!!
The pictures on the homepage are of Sally and Johnny ‘hanging’ with their black friends. Brilliantly, they are at the center of the group and all their black friends are laughing at their jokes. Underneath this, they have a set of testimonials from their “real life friends”:
Johnny calls me “da man!” That puts me at ease. It makes me feel comfortable, because I am Black and that’s how Black folks talk to one another.
Check out the hanging out section for pictures of Sally and Johnny chillin’ with their homies!
As you can imagine, there’s a serious message behind the satire, and it points the finger at the misconceptions we have of other races and the social stereotyping, like all blacks listen to gangsta rap, submit to ghetto culture and are somehow less intelligent than white people. Also, how all blacks think the same:
Sally and Johnny always ask me how the entire black community feels about certain topics. I really respect this about them because I am black and therfore obviously know how all blacks feel about everything! Black People Love Us Testimonials
We don’t really have this problem in Northern Ireland, because we’re not that multi-cultural. Yet. It’s coming, though and maybe we need to ask a few questions about our attitudes toward different races and cultures.
We do have that problem! It’s not as widespread, but it’s certainly there. It’s not about numbers, it’s about attitudes. Go to any middle class event and people will all over themselves talking about the delightful Chinese person they know or that fantastic Indian person they know, blah blah blah.
Animus: it could be worse at the least the people you mention are interested and excited about people from different backgrounds! Better that than some of the sickening racism against Chinese people that I have witnessed over here.
Anyway you don’t have to black to get stereotyped, I’m an Englishman living over here and my mother in law drives me up the wall with sweeping generalisations about England and the English (all 50 million of us are the same you know)… I’m not saying it would be any different for my wife if we lived in England though.
eeerr, it’s not the same as having black skin now is it. we dislike the Brits because we’ve actually suffered at your hands in the past. silly.
i’ve been out on the tiles with mates when a black person’s walked past. presumably just walking from A to B and not stealing anyone’s bike. the usual racist comments follow, “blackie”, “nig-nog”, etc. Never directly but always within ear-shot, so I guess it’s heard by these dudes.
always get tense when I’m with mates and a black guy approaches; not because I’m racist myself but because I know I’m going to have to listen to at least an hours worth of ignorant bigotry. :/ they seem to be ok with the girls tho, kinda get excited…like it’s some sort of challenge for their manhood. sadrly. we have some maturing to do in ireland.
The website is degrading to all African Americans. I am a African American female, and in college. I am Appuald at the black people who participated in the website. It is not funny and should be shut down!
Danielle, I totally disagree - the site raises awareness through humour and I think it gets the point across far more effectively than po-faced preaching.