Stuff White People Like: Reality Edition

Apr 25, 2008

Stuff White People Like: Reality Edition · by Rafi Kam

#97 Acquitting cops who shoot unarmed black people

#98 The systematic murder or non-whites domestically via integrated police forces (not guilty, y’all got to feel me) and overseas via armed forces (5,000 dead americans and who the fuck cares how many dead iraqis!)

Imagine if a super-popular site gave a shit? Imagine if a site that gave a shit was super-popular?

Comments for "Stuff White People Like: Reality Edition"

say word

— upset the setup Apr 25, 02:39 PM
word

— gandalf mantooth Apr 25, 03:00 PM
I know what you’re saying, both about that total bullshit with Sean Bell’s killers & the stupid “Stuff____Like” sites, but c’mon now, I not only dislike murderous cops and oil wars, I actively hate both of them. like a lot of white people – it would be nice if people gave a shit instead of just being snarky but if you’re going to be serious then you gotta paint with a finer brush.

— padraig Apr 25, 04:55 PM
— David Apr 25, 05:56 PM
We’re way past the tipping point for white flight here. OhWord = Chocolate City by 2009.

— R.H.S. Apr 25, 07:02 PM
oh please Rafi, this post is moronic. Acquitting BLACK cops who shot a BLACK man? Your general lack of humor has torpedoed this blog. A sense of humor is something you could pick up from these so-called popular sites.

— Negro Please Apr 25, 10:20 PM
Negro Please – if the concept of black cops reinforcing racist practices that target black civilians and reflect the racism of the larger society truly escapes you, perhaps you lack the social insight to comment thoughtfully on such issues. Feel free to take your plate to the children’s table until you’re ready to enter the discussion.

— R.H.S. Apr 25, 10:23 PM
lol @ torpedoed this blog.

this week is a flurry of activity. we’re in a boom season. sell! sell!

— Rafi Apr 25, 10:27 PM
both to the and on point

— sankofa Apr 26, 12:13 AM
an alternative is Stuff White People Do, which actually does give a shit. except it’s not as crazy popular as SWPL. of course.

— fathima Apr 26, 04:28 PM
Damn I didn’t realize the soldier body count reached five thou. Wasn’t it 4000 a few weeks back? Damn I didn’t realize gas prices reached $3.50 Wasn’t it $2.85 a few weeks back? Hmmmm.

— Jay B Apr 26, 09:36 PM
certain black Africans in aparteid era South Africa were known to be very corrupt very brutal policemen against their own countrymen.

The policy of oppression can be enforced by all shades. but where does it originate?

— global74 Apr 28, 07:02 PM
That’s what’s up.

— Ninoy Brown Apr 29, 11:34 PM
its gettin even more pitiful in NY this shit is officially a police state..they got every hood under keeplock eversince those pigs get aquitted..then i turn on the tv and these crackers devoting daylong convo’s about their new archnemesis reverend Wright?? and all he did was give em some of their own medicine..we got issues in the hood that apparently Barack cant address but i dont expect him to..after all he showed up for one reason the oval office and negroes dying on the streets isnt as important than what church thsi nigga attended or who won american idol or what jeremiahs body language said?? then to make matters worse the next day after the verdict niggas was still killin niggas wholesale..phuckin sad

— el philth Apr 30, 05:19 PM
White people also like laughing at moronic shit written on websites like this.

— gasfacevictm May 6, 06:08 AM
So…should I feel ashamed, as a white man?

Cuz I do. Every single time I read things like the Bell case, etc. etc., I always feel immensly guilty for being born a white male.

I’m not trying to bait an argument here at all, there’s no sarcasm syrup on these flapjacks, I just dont know how to feel anymore, you know?

I’m guilty, virtually by being born to whom I was born to.

— Eddie Cicero May 6, 07:06 AM
Hmmm perhaps the issue isnt the color of our skin but our upbringing. I happen to grow up in a shitty neighborhood but it doesnt mean that I am going to use that as my scapegoat of why i am the way i am. Lets be honest, anyone who attempts to use the color of there skin as a means to argue why they are ignorant fool is just that. It proves each time that a black man uses the word “nigger or nigga” they are ignorant. Great people like Martin Luther King Jr. fought american society so that a word so vile would be considered exactly that, yet American youth use it like it is the cool thing to do. Do you realize you are proving you are useless? The black man can blame white men or asian men and White men and can blame the Black men but when it comes down to it you make the choice of what to do in life. You decide whether or not to pick up that gun, you decide to sell drugs. And if your neighborhood is too bad, then LEAVE. Yes it might be difficult but it is the right thing to do. Remember at the end of the day, guns dont kill people, people kill people. And gasfacevictim, you discrace your name and your familys, be proud of who you are regardless of your skin color. Let the actions of your life dictate who you are and not the color of your skin.

— Michael Pierce May 7, 08:05 AM
Nice post. I wish more people would put this type of socially content in their blogs once in a while.
Other things white people (really) like:

#99: Letting juudges off with a slap on the wrist for DUI. #100: Locking up illeagal immegrants for DUI. #101: Pretending to support illegals by showing up at their workers rights rallys with other white folks, many of whom just happen to be INS.

By the way I’m white but I see the truth. I wish more people (of any ethnicity did).

Great work as always! Can’t wait for the new IC movie.

— the SHWAMY May 7, 01:02 PM
I cant understand the purpose of this post, is it genuine?? In this day and age racism has been limited to the point you can no longer accuse the current ‘white man’ collectively of anything. People of all races need to be judged on their own merits and not on colour, its shit like this that reinforces racial barriers and keeps racism alive. Sure the white man did immeasurable wrong in the past but the current generation is not responsible for this and for the most part welcomes an ethnically diverse society with open arms. Im sick of this kind of bollocks throwing it back in our faces. Like i said maybe i missed the point of this post and if i did please let me know, otherwise if you think there is any truth in this you are incredibly short sighted.

— Jonny E May 21, 01:53 PM
Really, that’s awesome that we’ve all moved beyond race so as to make this point moot and even offensive!

And yet it’s still a bunch of innocent black folk who end up getting shot by police…

If we had equal numbers of white people getting shot by police every year do you think that our ethnically diverse society would tolerate that?

Your friend in whiteness,
Rafi

— Rafi May 21, 02:13 PM
No you missed the point. I didnt say that racism no longer exists. But to write that white people really like the systematic murder of non whites is about as racially sensitive as saying all blacks are degenerate gang banging thugs whose sole aim is to destroy society. Its absolute bollocks.

You cant write in such broad terms and we will never move beyond race with people writing material like this. If you’re concerned with how the police force is run criticise that and not an entire race. Even better start a petition and be pro active, dont just spread hate on a blog. And dont think you havnt spread hate, everyone who has written ‘word’ or ‘true’ and even people that just thought it have had their racist views reinforced by reading this ‘reality edition’. It seems that these days no race is open to criticism except whites who take these kinds of poundings from every direction. Any other race and naturally it would seen for the bollocks it is. Imagine

Stuff black people like to do:

#1 Sell crack to children

#2 Shoot innocents in gang related incidents

etc. Just as you could find incidents where white policemen shoot black innocents I could find incidents where the above are true. That doesnt mean I label every person of an entire race with that stereotype.

— Jonny E May 21, 05:23 PM
you seem to be unfamiliar with the simultaneously self-deprecating and narcissistic, apolitical, and wildly popular blog “stuff white people like”.

if you don’t catch the reference point of this spoof post, there’s little sense in us debating it.

stay tuned for an upcoming post where i’ll talk about when i was a teen and i got assaulted on a train in east new york by a group of black kids. i was then taken down to a police precinct in the subway station where i was asked to look through literally thousands of polaroids of underage black boys from that neighborhood who were already “in the system”.

you can tell me all you want about how the system is fair. i’ve seen the evidence that it’s not and it made me queasier that day than the blood that had spilled out of my face.

— Rafi May 21, 05:35 PM
Spoof post…. hence why i asked is it genuine post before. Lol, again youve missed the point though, i didnt say the police system was fair, in fact i encouraged you to criticise it but obviously you didnt take any time to absorb what was said. As for being apolitical – not possible, clearly you believe at some level this post is true and that makes it politically charged. Also it being self-deprecating makes it no less offensive and insensitive. Finally as for being popular, so is high school musical. Doesnt mean shit

— Jonny E May 21, 05:50 PM
Sigh… once again.

Those adjectives.. apolitical, self-deprecating, popular is how i was describing the stuff white people blog this post is referencing.

That blog (a separate blog from ohword) is Stuff White People Like

They’re hugely popular and even turned their fast web fame into a 6 figure book deal. Go bother them!

Seriously, you’re right that I’m not taking time to absorb the specifics of your last comment because it was clear you didnt know what I was sending up. Also I’m swamped with work right now.

Part of the point is that the big white audience is comfy criticizing themselves over on inane crap but bigger issues are off-limits.

— Rafi May 21, 05:57 PM
I love you self loathing woops I mean “socially conscious” crackers who think you can appeal to minorities by painting some devilish tyrannical race. tell us something we don’t know!

— Chris St. Christopher May 21, 08:33 PM
We love you too.

— Rafi May 21, 09:13 PM