Thursday, June 12, 2008

Implications of Racial Self-Identification and Self-Esteem Among Multiracial Teens

If you are an intelligent person seeking satirical, political stimulation, now would be a good time to go to the bathroom.

Likewise, if you are an African American who has curiously been forwarded to TheBlogThatMustNotBeNamed.com by a well-meaning and earnest white colleague, then this is not the post you ought to start with. As an alternative, let me direct you to our right-hand navigation, which provides a myriad of opportunity to access politically charged content just brimming with hilarity and racial angst.

But not for me; not tonight.

Nay, I am under the influence of a mounting momentum initiated two days ago by a homeless black man on the A train. There's nothing I can do to get Black Hagrid out of my mind. I would say that from an analytics perspective, Blagrid currently occupies 7% of my total cpu time. If you consider that I'm also thinking of my wife and kids, milestone 106 from my project plan, what to have for lunch, the fact that I have to pick up my dry cleaning, and the sick body of the white butterface girl that sits in the cube accross from me, you'll realize of 7% of time for Blagrid is a shitload, and it's a segment size that I cannot afford.

I feel that my only shot at freeing myself from these thoughts are to give into them just once - it might not work, but I've got to try. Thus it is with regret that I bring to you what we can only hope will be the first and last installment of: The Offensive Adventures of Blagrid and Nappy Potter:


The black giant took a gulp of tea and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
"Nigga, just call me Blagrid," he said, "that's what all them niggas be callin me back from the yards. And like I was tellin you, I'm the janitor an shit back at Hogwarts so I can hook yo ass up when we back there. Yall niggas know about Hogwarts right?"
"Er - no," said Nappy
Blagrid looked shocked.
"Sorry" Nappy said quickly.
"Sorry??" barked Blagrid, turning to stare at the Dursleys who shrank back into the shadows. "It's them niggas should be sorry! I knew they wasn't givin you mail and shit but damn nigga they didn't even tell a nigga about Hogwarts?!"
I'm thinking that it's now safe to start talking to you, but I don't want to leave this font lest it draw attention in case they are still looking at this post, maybe scrolling up and down before leaving the site. You see, only an original reader would have read down this far. I hope you understand; I had to do this to make sure that I could have one last word with you guys before the influx of new black readers who you've forwarded to TheBlogThatMustNotBeNamed.com. See I didn't want to let you guys down by scaring away your black acquaintances, especially after we went so much trouble for you to figure out a way of getting them here.
So here's the deal - Nicole, who is basically like fucking blognigger royalty, sent me this video. 2.5 million views? can't believe I've never seen it. Have you guys all seen it? Shit, I guess I have to post the video here - and this will draw attention back to this part of the page, but fuckit:




See why I needed all your new black acquaintances to leave before getting to this part? It's because I don't want to appear racist and give you guys a bad name when I say what obviously has to be said after viewing this video:

It's time to for us all to be rooted in what is so: black people are the CRAZIEST FUCKING PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. (besides arabs) There has got to be a genetic factor giving mainstream members of our race the capacity to act like this. Now listen, before you get angry and start sending me those goddamn emails again, let me explain:

When Nana 9:14 posted that question to the Ask Blognigger: Coloreds In The Theater about having a master's degree and still feeling compelled to act-out and be loud in movie theaters... it really got me to thinking. Thank god for her honesty.

I'm a big believer in brain chemistry being the catalyst for all human behavior - as someone on Lexapro, I've seen the evidence. So what I'm saying is, let's be frank that first of all, you've never seen any non-black person get as physically, thumpingly crazy in quite the same way as the girl in this video. If you have, send me the youtube video or example right fucking now. There's Tom crazy, there's Charlie crazy, there's Andrea crazy, there's Do-from-Heaven's-Gate crazy, - no shortage of white muthafuckin crazy people. But I am saying that you will not see quite the same kind of chaotic disregard and physical loud public energy in any of these people- especially from someone who is not diagnosed with a legitimate neurological disorder. Even if you see a white guy screaming on the train, he's not going to be quite the same unique brand of physical gyrating crazy as the girl in this video. The crazy DOG-PENIS white lady from the F train, who I will do a post on someday, screams all throughout the train like a lunatic, far louder than the girl in this video. But she is psychotic. You going to tell me the girl in the video above is psychotic? I don't think so.

Just own it - why lie? What are you afraid of? There's some gene and chemical that gives black people the capacity to act out in this specific way- we can stifle it by being civilized, but if you're black, you know damn well you can still feel that loudness urge within yourself. Shit, I've never yelled in a movie theater in my life, but I understand where the urge comes from - I can feel it deep within there, just to the left of my AfricaPancreas. Thanks dad! Black guy who doesn't agree with me: please post a comment and tell me you've never felt the same urge.

So let me have another shot at that Ask Blognigger: Why are blacks loud in movie theaters? Answer: It's chemical. It's the same causal gene that has motivated Africans to have created an oral tradition, and the same genetic impulse that berthed the call-and-response musical tradition. I don't yell in movie theaters because I'm not fuckin ignorant, but somewhere ever so slightly I suppose I'm stifling an urge. I certainly stifle that urge when I become enraged on MTA platforms and feel like screaming out like the dog-penis lady. What do yall muthafuckas think?? Cmon, lemme hear it on this one.

"ALL WHAT?" Blagrid thundered. "wait just a muthafuckin second!"
He had leapt to his feet. In his anger he seemed to fill the whole hut. The Dursleys were cowering against the wall.


We hope you've enjoyed the first and only blogplay installment of The Offensive Adventures of Blagrid and Nappy Potter, brought to you free of commercial interruption or hidden digressions into cataclysmic racial honesty.

I'll let you know if it helped.

10 comments:

amelia_bedilia said...

best post ever

Anonymous said...

Gawker is my hero for guiding me to this blog. It's genius.

Jefferson Davis said...

Dear Blognigger,

First, an apology to all those comment readers who are not technically inclined, but I just need to inform our intrepid host that the 7% of the CPU time he thinks is devoted to the Blagrid thread in reality only consumes 0.1% of the CPU; the rest is wasted by his Java Virtual Machine as it mistakenly fires thousands of Delayed Procedure Calls and resets the execution pointer. Guess it is time for some Adderall to supplement that Lexapro, or just switch to C++. Haha!

No need to worry about scaring my black acquaintances, as most of them are immigrants direct from Mali or Ethiopia and our conversations center around how long it will take to get to Penn Station rather than blogging, so there was really little need for the subterfuge. But, I appreciate the effort nonetheless.

I certainly wouldn’t despair about the woman in the video. All it does is confirm her eligibility for election to the House of Representatives where debate is usually limited to five minutes per member. Obviously, there are some districts where she could not get elected and some where she would thrive. I recommend the District of Columbia, where she would receive all the time for debate allocated to any other member, but where her vote would not actually count. Not even three fifths of it.

I must say, Blognigger, that you have yet to disappoint me with either the quality or lucidity of your posts and I look forward most eagerly to your next worthy effort.

Respectfully yours,

Jefferson Davis
Richmond, Virginia

Deo Vindici

Anonymous said...

Hey man. I agree with what you are saying. I think you deserve a "Race and Reason" award or some shit--you need to be appointed to Obama's cabinet.

I have a video that will rival the one you posted. This one is of my kids' Trinidadian nanny going crazy in Brooklyn, throwing bottles at a huge lesbian in a PLAYGROUND.

Now what makes this double crazy is that she voluntarily showed me (her boss, the father of the kids she tends) this video of herself acting like a crazed violent maniac. She was very proud of herself because it shows that she will not take shit from anyone.

Trini Girls Clash in Brooklyn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc46wdfxG2k

Part Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ1RQ7-j6H8

I hope you enjoy these videos.

Nicole said...

Thanks for the shout out, BN. Glad to supply fodder for more brilliance. Best is that I got that link from the status of one of my now-gay, white ex boyfriends from college. That's a whole other post.

The video and response are making me think of some of my internet favorites, including Bubb Rubb (if you never saw it, please go watch it right now without delay - it is ripe for racial deconstruction on so many levels, and just when you think it can't get any more real and wrong, it does):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccgXjA2BLEY

And "Beat Down" which I am frantically searching for but cannot find. I had it on my laptop, but it died. I'm hoping someone has it and can point me toward it b/c OMG.

oomfufu said...

I want Blagrid to battle Drunk Russian in your next installment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Uy2JvqNjU

BestViewInBrooklyn said...

Hmm. Blogger has been acting weird lately. I don't know why my comment was deleted when I logged in.

Anyway, the short version was that the video on youtube with the subtitles is a lot funnier.

Nicole said...

Halleluerrruah I found Beatdown!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfmrJwRLL0s

(You may have to login and confirm your age to watch it b/c it's been flagged for the violence.)

My favorite parts are:

1. When the little girl points out that the necklace is broken and the mom responds: "Please don't show me that at this point in time."

2. When they STOP FIGHTING while the police drive by.

3. "Walk the dog! Walk the dog!"

4. That the boy KEEPS. FIGHTING. BACK. Until someone literally makes him stop.

Brilliant(ly pathetic) and hilarous(ly sad)

Anonymous said...

@bestviewinbrooklyn

Here was your old comment:

BestViewInBrooklyn:

The video with the subtitles is a lot funnier.

This is why I avoided getting on the train until a solid half-hour after my school let out. Who needs some girl's saliva all over the paper's they're grading?

saucytart said...

My Dearest Blognigger,

While I do not have a AfricaPancreas and I am most definitely a white-gloved, lily-white middle aged *lady* of Southern heritage, I too stifle the urge. It is deep and it is never still. Yep, it's alive. My feeling is that it's quite simply a rage situation, rather than a chemical situation. I can wag my head with the best of them, but, lord, I try hard not to. Just once I'd enjoy owning it...