Karamo is a fag...
no, really, he is. but, i don't have a problem with that. its fine. my father's gay--
just so we're on the same page here... karamo is the self proclaimed "proud black (gay) man" on the Real World Philly. (how typical...) If you dont watch, you should start (among other things).
Karamo, i have a bone to pick with you, so buckle up son.
his sexual preferences (and/or anatomical size advantages) are totally unrelated to my beef. my problem is, i dont like racist punks. and guess what, he's a racist. he's a raging angry black man, and he's racist. i think probably most racists are angry, so perhaps thats redundant. also, he assumes all white people are racist. it will come as no surprise that (like me) he hates racists, ergo--white people. in today's social climate, you have to really try to be black AND racist. its no easy task. it takes dedication and a lot of hard work. sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken...
ive seen 4 episodes of RW so far, i think, and it is already so abundantly clear that he's racist, but me thinks this isn't totally his fault. he "confesses" that his father raised him with the mentality that "the white man is not your friend. he is the devil and he wants to keep you down. oh, and also, he hates you, so hate back, brother." karamo took daddy's words to heart--how wonderful for him. does anyone see anything wrong with this picture? anyone? probably not... it seems typical. its the norm. but what if my mother's baby-daddy taught me that filth? my dad comes home everyday from work, and lectures me about the evil black man, and how i can't trust 'em. and how i shouldnt ever make friends with 'the black' because they'll just slit my throat first chance they get. sure, i can treat 'em like humans if i want, but they hate me, so i should just accept it and hate them right back. WHOA! what if my dad taught me this as i was growing up. what if dad came home from the Clan meeting every sunday and "educated" me on the "truth" about the races? i would be totally warped. but karamo is normal...... riiiiight......
on the show karamo is talking to the only other person in the house that could possibly understand him, (black people insist that only other black people understand them, which makes perfect sense.... if you're black and/or racist), the nubian princess, Shavonda. (would karamo be the Nubian Queen?) i dont even know what a nubian is.... but we're way off track here. karamo is one of "those" black guys/girls. you know, the ones that go through life "alone" because no one can understand them (at least, that's what daddy taught him) case in point---
our hero, karamo, ventures out to a club with his white (so, naturally racist) friend, MJ, to get a little sauced up. Mj is dressed normally (hey, he's from the south, cut him some slack, this is what passes for normal in the south) and karamo is head to toe (appropriately) in his "hip-hop flavor" thuggish ruggish fubu busta wear. hey, dont look at me, i think he looks fine (read: typical) i think hip-hop fashion is fine, if you're a rapper. of course, karamo IS black, which i think innately makes him a rapper, if im not mistaken. (hey, this is just what my proud white father taught me-- dont hate) but seriously, he is wearing the little panty-hose/condom hat thing on his head, with the little streamer tail on the back. its a good look. a little silly, in my opinion/estimation, but i'm not gonna tell you how to dress, so, its fine. i have no qualms with this. bottom line-- you could do a lot worse. so, fashion conflicts aside, MJ & karamo seem to be having a fine time up in the club--- we've made it through 2 commercial breaks and still no "issues" or "drama" have surfaced. its time... the evening goes sour when karamo is approached and "harassed" by some bacon (tha POlice) in the club and is patted down and searched for Nina tha nine milla'meta'. they got a tip that he was strappin', and as im sure you've already assumed, he went nuts about it. that's fine - im sure the cops were racist, right karamo, even though they were also black. do they think you're gonna hide the piece underneath your pantyhose cap??they're hating on you cos you're black... those stupid racist cops.
so karamo is very unhappy about this, and he blows it WAY outta proportion. (but he's gay, so he needs that little bit of drama... am i wrong? am i wrong? my father would do the same thing......) Mj is trying to talk to him and settle him down and see whats going on. but, you know how it is when estrogen makes its mind up. karamo is not happy and i think maybe he cried a little. he doesnt want MJ to calm hiim down, because, hey! MJ doesnt understand! he's white, how could he? Mj, you ignorant hick, only black people understand what other black people are going through! you cant relate to any of his emotions!! Oh, i can prove it.....
Special K asks Mj, repeatedly, "how many times has this happened to you?" im guessing, by the way Mj is dressed (and the way he looks at karamo) his answer is implicitely, less than or equal to 0 times. karamo says "this" happens to he and his friends ALL the time. predictable isnt the right word.....(he doesnt say, but im just going to ASSUME, karamo's friends are also proud black men with hip-hop style)
so, picture this.... karamo and his entourage in the club, all adorned with the panty-hose/condom hats and other "gangsta-wear" (dont judge, its our culture, asshole) and the police are ALWAYS hassling them. i cant figure this out?!?! why are they dogging on karamo and his boys?? why not go search the black guys standing over there dressed in slacks and a nice button down?!!? racist cops! oh wait... its all falling into place. could it possibly have ANYTHING to do with the fact that you're dressed like someone who WOULD have a gun? you guessed'er chester. break it down like a shotgun--- how many brothers dressed to the nines with a mean shoe game are getting harassed by the five-o in the back alleys of philly? how about in the clubs? (these are rhetorical questions) i'm not denying that perhaps these black cops were racist, but it had nothing to do with you being searched, homeboy. but, what would i know. right, karamo? i'm white -- i dont UNDERSTAND you and what you go through. but, in an effort to understand where you're coming from, im gonna put some panty-hose on my head tonight and wear clothes 5 sizes too big. im certain i can draw the attention of law enforcement officials.
plus K, they had an anonymous tip, man. what can ya do?
so special K only confides in his dark-s(k)inned counterpart, explaining that his dad raised him this way, but that he doesnt wanna be the "angry black man." which, is just breath taking, because its so obvious that he is VERY angry (and i'd bet money that its not about the size of his heater) that anger is so appropriately (read: inappropriately) directed towards all things caucasian. he says that when he looks at his white (racist) roomates, he cant help but think that it was THEIR ignorant parents who were the ones in the 50's and 60's trying to fight equality. this is tremendous. so, i take it that his white roomate's parents are 70-90 years old? way to go karamo -- or maybe you're just looking for a reason to not like them. looking for a reason to beleive they're racist. there HAS to be one, right? you just havent found it yet....
karamo might have a point -- maybe his white roomate's parents WERE ignorant racists. thank God karamo didn't grow up in a home like that......
end scene... cut to karamo telling shavonda about the things his dad taught him.....
"son, you're a PROUD BLACK MAN, and whites only want to keep you down and not let you have nice things and not let your beautiful black heritage be shown and they hate you!" how can you NOT be angry/racist when your father is pumping you full of this poison (i.e. the normal rant passed on from one black man to another) hmm.... this passes as normal. this is accepted. this is disgusting. imagine, if you will, that my father raised me like this. "son, you're a PROUD WHITE MAN! and the blacks just wanna make your life hell and steal your posessions and shoot at you and kill you and he wants to take your beautiful white heritage and culture cos he hates you!" would this be accepted for even a second?! hell no! at the first word of a white parent telling his white kid to go around saying he's "a proud white man" and "blacks just wanna take his beautiful white heritage" the entire family would be toast. dead, like, the kind of dead equal to or greater than a frat guy with a BA level of 0.42 -that's really dead, ya'll....
yet, this passes as OK for black people to teach their children. its fine. its wonderful. they're just proud. oh ok ---- and we wonder why karamo is an angry black racist. psh, im not wondering.
why does ANYTHING have to be about color, much less EVERTHING, karamo. i dont think that way, but man, you sure make it easy.
in the begining you were just a dude to me. then, you made it a point to proclaim yourself as a PROUD BLACK MAN. so, fine, i guess its about color now. so since you insist, i'll look at you as a black dude. then you tried your damnest to make sure everyone knew you were an angry, racist, proud black man. alright, fine, i guess its about color and racism now. since you insist, i will try to view you as an angry racist proud black dude. happy?
i dont want to umbrella all the little urban children running around their neighborhood McDonalds, so this is only about karamo. i'm not condemning him.... yet. i think a lot of it was his parents fault, and maybe he'll change. but he needs to get busy. otherwise, im gonna push for white history month and white entertainment television and really piss him off....
--Proud White Man
just so we're on the same page here... karamo is the self proclaimed "proud black (gay) man" on the Real World Philly. (how typical...) If you dont watch, you should start (among other things).
Karamo, i have a bone to pick with you, so buckle up son.
his sexual preferences (and/or anatomical size advantages) are totally unrelated to my beef. my problem is, i dont like racist punks. and guess what, he's a racist. he's a raging angry black man, and he's racist. i think probably most racists are angry, so perhaps thats redundant. also, he assumes all white people are racist. it will come as no surprise that (like me) he hates racists, ergo--white people. in today's social climate, you have to really try to be black AND racist. its no easy task. it takes dedication and a lot of hard work. sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken...
ive seen 4 episodes of RW so far, i think, and it is already so abundantly clear that he's racist, but me thinks this isn't totally his fault. he "confesses" that his father raised him with the mentality that "the white man is not your friend. he is the devil and he wants to keep you down. oh, and also, he hates you, so hate back, brother." karamo took daddy's words to heart--how wonderful for him. does anyone see anything wrong with this picture? anyone? probably not... it seems typical. its the norm. but what if my mother's baby-daddy taught me that filth? my dad comes home everyday from work, and lectures me about the evil black man, and how i can't trust 'em. and how i shouldnt ever make friends with 'the black' because they'll just slit my throat first chance they get. sure, i can treat 'em like humans if i want, but they hate me, so i should just accept it and hate them right back. WHOA! what if my dad taught me this as i was growing up. what if dad came home from the Clan meeting every sunday and "educated" me on the "truth" about the races? i would be totally warped. but karamo is normal...... riiiiight......
on the show karamo is talking to the only other person in the house that could possibly understand him, (black people insist that only other black people understand them, which makes perfect sense.... if you're black and/or racist), the nubian princess, Shavonda. (would karamo be the Nubian Queen?) i dont even know what a nubian is.... but we're way off track here. karamo is one of "those" black guys/girls. you know, the ones that go through life "alone" because no one can understand them (at least, that's what daddy taught him) case in point---
our hero, karamo, ventures out to a club with his white (so, naturally racist) friend, MJ, to get a little sauced up. Mj is dressed normally (hey, he's from the south, cut him some slack, this is what passes for normal in the south) and karamo is head to toe (appropriately) in his "hip-hop flavor" thuggish ruggish fubu busta wear. hey, dont look at me, i think he looks fine (read: typical) i think hip-hop fashion is fine, if you're a rapper. of course, karamo IS black, which i think innately makes him a rapper, if im not mistaken. (hey, this is just what my proud white father taught me-- dont hate) but seriously, he is wearing the little panty-hose/condom hat thing on his head, with the little streamer tail on the back. its a good look. a little silly, in my opinion/estimation, but i'm not gonna tell you how to dress, so, its fine. i have no qualms with this. bottom line-- you could do a lot worse. so, fashion conflicts aside, MJ & karamo seem to be having a fine time up in the club--- we've made it through 2 commercial breaks and still no "issues" or "drama" have surfaced. its time... the evening goes sour when karamo is approached and "harassed" by some bacon (tha POlice) in the club and is patted down and searched for Nina tha nine milla'meta'. they got a tip that he was strappin', and as im sure you've already assumed, he went nuts about it. that's fine - im sure the cops were racist, right karamo, even though they were also black. do they think you're gonna hide the piece underneath your pantyhose cap??they're hating on you cos you're black... those stupid racist cops.
so karamo is very unhappy about this, and he blows it WAY outta proportion. (but he's gay, so he needs that little bit of drama... am i wrong? am i wrong? my father would do the same thing......) Mj is trying to talk to him and settle him down and see whats going on. but, you know how it is when estrogen makes its mind up. karamo is not happy and i think maybe he cried a little. he doesnt want MJ to calm hiim down, because, hey! MJ doesnt understand! he's white, how could he? Mj, you ignorant hick, only black people understand what other black people are going through! you cant relate to any of his emotions!! Oh, i can prove it.....
Special K asks Mj, repeatedly, "how many times has this happened to you?" im guessing, by the way Mj is dressed (and the way he looks at karamo) his answer is implicitely, less than or equal to 0 times. karamo says "this" happens to he and his friends ALL the time. predictable isnt the right word.....(he doesnt say, but im just going to ASSUME, karamo's friends are also proud black men with hip-hop style)
so, picture this.... karamo and his entourage in the club, all adorned with the panty-hose/condom hats and other "gangsta-wear" (dont judge, its our culture, asshole) and the police are ALWAYS hassling them. i cant figure this out?!?! why are they dogging on karamo and his boys?? why not go search the black guys standing over there dressed in slacks and a nice button down?!!? racist cops! oh wait... its all falling into place. could it possibly have ANYTHING to do with the fact that you're dressed like someone who WOULD have a gun? you guessed'er chester. break it down like a shotgun--- how many brothers dressed to the nines with a mean shoe game are getting harassed by the five-o in the back alleys of philly? how about in the clubs? (these are rhetorical questions) i'm not denying that perhaps these black cops were racist, but it had nothing to do with you being searched, homeboy. but, what would i know. right, karamo? i'm white -- i dont UNDERSTAND you and what you go through. but, in an effort to understand where you're coming from, im gonna put some panty-hose on my head tonight and wear clothes 5 sizes too big. im certain i can draw the attention of law enforcement officials.
plus K, they had an anonymous tip, man. what can ya do?
so special K only confides in his dark-s(k)inned counterpart, explaining that his dad raised him this way, but that he doesnt wanna be the "angry black man." which, is just breath taking, because its so obvious that he is VERY angry (and i'd bet money that its not about the size of his heater) that anger is so appropriately (read: inappropriately) directed towards all things caucasian. he says that when he looks at his white (racist) roomates, he cant help but think that it was THEIR ignorant parents who were the ones in the 50's and 60's trying to fight equality. this is tremendous. so, i take it that his white roomate's parents are 70-90 years old? way to go karamo -- or maybe you're just looking for a reason to not like them. looking for a reason to beleive they're racist. there HAS to be one, right? you just havent found it yet....
karamo might have a point -- maybe his white roomate's parents WERE ignorant racists. thank God karamo didn't grow up in a home like that......
end scene... cut to karamo telling shavonda about the things his dad taught him.....
"son, you're a PROUD BLACK MAN, and whites only want to keep you down and not let you have nice things and not let your beautiful black heritage be shown and they hate you!" how can you NOT be angry/racist when your father is pumping you full of this poison (i.e. the normal rant passed on from one black man to another) hmm.... this passes as normal. this is accepted. this is disgusting. imagine, if you will, that my father raised me like this. "son, you're a PROUD WHITE MAN! and the blacks just wanna make your life hell and steal your posessions and shoot at you and kill you and he wants to take your beautiful white heritage and culture cos he hates you!" would this be accepted for even a second?! hell no! at the first word of a white parent telling his white kid to go around saying he's "a proud white man" and "blacks just wanna take his beautiful white heritage" the entire family would be toast. dead, like, the kind of dead equal to or greater than a frat guy with a BA level of 0.42 -that's really dead, ya'll....
yet, this passes as OK for black people to teach their children. its fine. its wonderful. they're just proud. oh ok ---- and we wonder why karamo is an angry black racist. psh, im not wondering.
why does ANYTHING have to be about color, much less EVERTHING, karamo. i dont think that way, but man, you sure make it easy.
in the begining you were just a dude to me. then, you made it a point to proclaim yourself as a PROUD BLACK MAN. so, fine, i guess its about color now. so since you insist, i'll look at you as a black dude. then you tried your damnest to make sure everyone knew you were an angry, racist, proud black man. alright, fine, i guess its about color and racism now. since you insist, i will try to view you as an angry racist proud black dude. happy?
i dont want to umbrella all the little urban children running around their neighborhood McDonalds, so this is only about karamo. i'm not condemning him.... yet. i think a lot of it was his parents fault, and maybe he'll change. but he needs to get busy. otherwise, im gonna push for white history month and white entertainment television and really piss him off....
--Proud White Man
posted by Big Shifta at 10/05/2004 06:20:00 PM
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