Negroes In Space

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:11 pm

http://www.negrospaceprogram.com/

deshead · Post by **deshead** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:50 am

"America's love affair with racism was in full swing."

Holy crap, that was funny. Thanks Fluffy.

I sprayed tea when I saw the picture of the Saturn V engine on the back of the school bus.

c.layne · Post by **c.layne** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:40 am

whooo! i needed that. thanks, fluff!

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:27 am

When I try the link I get (redirected?) to an ad from Electronic Scripting Products Inc. Something called the NaviScribe.

Post by **Spud** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:39 am

Jim: I don't get it.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:07 pm

jim, check your system for spyware.

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:32 pm

Brilliant Fluffy! Thanks.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:35 pm

Gee, I guess i'm in the minority. I didn't dig it.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 3:17 pm

I didn't get much out of it either.
But I was really hoping it would be a link to a band called 'The Space Negroes', who did a delightfully awful Xmas album some years ago that I can't seem to find anymore. Oh well.

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 4:01 pm

Are those negroes up in space? Pack my bags if that's the case, got to see this for myself!

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 12:13 am

Niveous wrote:I guess i'm in the minority.

thanks niv... almost fell off my chair when i saw this.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:42 am

I'm glad my wordplay did not go unnoticed.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:37 am

I couldn't come up with a clever response which wasn't potentially offensive. :D

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:52 am

I would have to say that it was funny or humorous if you will.

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:33 pm

Hoblit wrote:I would have to say that it was funny or humorous if you will.

Future Boy · Post by **Future Boy** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:16 pm

watched this the other day through MeFi, it was hilarious.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:19 pm

I laughed quite hard when I watched it, but I don't know any black people who didn't hate it, which makes me feel bad about laughing at it. Hmm..

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:58 pm

I wonder why that is. I mean, it seems to be making fun of whites, academics, and Ken Burns, and nothing in it seems like it would be an affront to actual blacks. Then again, I come from a culture which is very self-effacing (I mean, just look at any Woody Allen movie or episode of Seinfeld), so I guess I tend to assume that everyone's that way.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:58 pm

There were a couple of things that tweaked a nerve in there. Plus, when you really think about it- there was a time in which you couldn't find Black Astronauts. To this day, only there have been less than 20 Black astronauts in the 40 or so years of manned space flight. And 2 of them died in shuttle explosions (one in Challenger & one in Columbia). There wasn't a black astronaut in space until 1983. So I didn't find it funny, it just made me think about how the situation must have really been like.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:19 pm

Niveous wrote:There wasn't a black astronaut in space until 1983. So I didn't find it funny, it just made me think about how the situation must have really been like.

If you were black, and you were an astronaut, you were out of work.

If you step back for a second, and realize that nobody (including the people who made the movie) can do anything about the racism that has occured in the past, you may be able to see the humor of poking fun at the error of our ways. This movie was obviously meant to point out how silly americans were back then by taking jabs at both black and white folk.

Racism itself isn't funny, but when we all step back and realize how ridiculous racism really is we might be able to put it behind us. I think this film is just illustrating this by a few nudges in the ribs.

Fluffy, you're right. Woody Allen totally just pointed out how ridiculous it is to be so conscience and paranoid of racism in society by exagerration of sensitivity.

<font color="red">
ROB: You're crazy!

ALVY: No, I'm not. We were walking off the tennis court, and you know, he was there and me and his wife, and he looked at her and then they both looked at me, and under his breath he said, "Jew."

ROB: Alvy, you're a total paranoid.

ALVY: Wh- How am I a paran-? Well, I pick up on those kind o' things. You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC, so I said ... uh, "Did you eat yet or what?" and Tom Christie said, "No, didchoo?" Not, did you, didchoo eat? Jew? No, not did you eat, but Jew eat? Jew. You get it? Jew eat?

ROB: Ah, Max, you, uh ...

ALVY: Stop calling me Max.
</font>

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:31 am

Not to mention the fact that the line "If you were black, and you were an astronaut, you were out of work," is absurd. Think about it.

erik · Post by **erik** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:38 am

Thanks! I need jokes pointed out to me! Glad you're here! Telling me to think about it sure helped!