Update: Oreo, Dog Thrown Off Building, Was Euthanized
People Wait For Tomorrow's UWS Apple Store Opening
Cheap Chicken Wing Deal Ruined by Gunslinging Teens
FIT Students Busted For Drug Dealing Get Probation
Views From Your Windows
So in all of the hub-bub in our comments section yesterday about photographs taken at yesterday's rally, we worry you might have missed this gem and its accompanying scene:
From Who Are They's description:
As I swung around the tent, Rev. Sharpton and Rev. Jackson started exiting the rear of the tent. For a few moments it was just me and the Revs - so I took the opportunity to take a bunch of photos. As they started walking away, a white man - who I suspect was an undercover cop (it's all about the footwear) shouted,“Hey Sharpton, seen Tawana Brawley lately?”
Instantly Rev. Jackson swung around and yelled back, “Yeah man! She was with your mom last night!”
Both men laughed. It was calssic.
End scene.
You can see the rest of plemeljr's photos of the Rev's here.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Um, I don't get it. Aren't "mom"-type comments like this supposed to insult your mother? So it's supposed to be an insult that Tawana was with the heckler's mom? Doesn't that imply that nobody should want to be with Tawana, precisely the opposite effect of what Jesse wanted to say? I guess I'll never understand "inner city" humor.
Anything where Al Shartpton is involved one cannot take seriously. And Jesse Jackson is an extortionist. Martin Luther King is spinning in his grave because of them. Jesus Christ is most likely unhappy too.
"(x) was with your mom last night!" and "your momma" jokes are a bit different. (x) is meant to be someone you hate, so it's like the ultimate insult that (x) was sleeping with your mom, just because most guys don't like the thought that someone they hate is sleeping with their mom. It's not meant to comment on the desirability of (x). I can't believe I actually had to explain this.
Photos like that almost make me wish Al had done that sitcom they were threatening for a bit back there.
Now that would have been something.
That taunt is especially f*cked up if a cop did make it -- but certainly I've seen cops do much worse.
And my read on the response was that he meant, "I saw Tawana because *I* was having sex with your mom last night and Tawana was there."
Why am I completely unsurprised that Brightliner doesn't "get" urban humor?
I "get" it when it's clever and funny, as in "The Boondocks" comic strip. But as any comedian will tell you, if you have to explain a joke, it's not funny. Is "areacode212" trying to tell me that insinuating Tawana is a lesbian is a good thing for Jesse to do? In the other case, it'd be foolhardy for anyone to make "with your mom" jokes to anyone he doesn't know. For all he knows, the heckler's mom is pushing up daisies, so that would have made Jesse a necophiliac. Besides, it was a poor way of deflecting legitimate criticism. Just where is poor, abused Tawana anyway? I'm guessing weighing 300 pounds, parked on the sofa and popped out six kids, most out of wedlock.
Brightliner is the last person who should be calling someone unfunny. To wit: (from Brightliner, 4/18/2006) "You're absolutely right. Macs suck. Why don't you go back to downloading the latest virus and spyware definitions, and probably your game of Tomb Raider: Legend?"
Tomb Raider: Legend? WTF?
What's even funnier is that Brightliner's exposure to 'urban humor' is the Boondocks comic. Don't encounter much of the black folk in real life, eh?