YOU MAD BRO? - Racist?

• OneBuckeye

  

  http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-kirtland-football-sign-you-mad-bro-decoded-txt,0,7608392.story
  
  video in the link
  

  PAINESVILLE, Ohio—
  Controversy over a sign held up after a high school football game could be a sign of the times.
  
  Young people using web-centric lingo IRL (in real life) to people who don't speak the language.
  
  The two worlds collided at Friday's high school football game between Kirtland at Painesville Harvey.
  
  As many found out, not everyone speaks web, and the message can get lost in translation.
  
  "Our students are guilty of being unsportsmanlike and insensitive in the context they were in, but I don't think their intent was to hurt folks," Kirtland Schools Superintendent Steven Barrett said.
  
  After the game, some people on the winning Kirtland side held up a sign that read 'you mad bro.'
  
  Some, including Roderick Coffee, a pastor and the president of the Lake County NAACP, took the term as having racist undertones.
  
  The FOX 8 story went viral on the web.
  
  Tens of thousands of webbies sounded-off on what most describe as an often-used, and non-racial, message board term called a 'meme.'
  
  "The phrase 'you mad bro' is sort of a viral phrase. It's all over the internet. There's 30 or 40 sites you can order a 'you mad bro?' t-shirt," Barrett said.
  
  Andrew Couts from digitaltrends.com explained the meaning in 'real life' terms.
  
  "'You mad bro' is something someone who we call on the internet 'trolls' use to make people more angry. It's used when someone is already angry and you you say it just to make them more angry," Couts said.
  
  Barrett and Painesville Schools Superintendent Dr. Michael Hanlon agreed this is a language lesson for all.
  
  "I think the impact on a person or a group of people based on a statement can have an unintended consequence," Hanlon said.
  
  Coffee said he now knows the phrase is an internet term, but he's not convinced that's the whole story.
  
  "I am still of the opinion that there was racial undertones, overtones, to the comment based upon the culture of our community we live in," Coffee said.
  
  School officials said by law they cannot comment if the students who held the sign up the sign will be disciplined for poor sportsmanship.
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• OneBuckeye

  

  I see sleeper was interviewed around 1:03
• OneBuckeye

  

  
• Belly35

  

  "You mad mofo" is that better?
  
  The only thing racist is Mr. Roderic Coffee and the NAACP looking for a racist issue ..
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  
• ernest_t_bass

  

  This is so fucking stupid. NAACP can die in a fire. Or a lynching. You Mad Bro?
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Black people are always looking to make innocuous things racist. When i hear Bro i think retarded guido, no thug. If it said "You Mad Nigga" then i can see their point.
• Gblock

  Raw Dawgin' it;885925 wrote:Black people are always looking to make innocuous things racist. When i hear Bro i think retarded guido, no thug. If it said "You Mad Nigga" then i can see their point.

  wow that is a far reaching statement about black people smh...anyway anything could be racist depending on how it was said and who is saying it...i dont think you mad bro is racist, but if a racist mofo is saying it then i can see folks getting upset.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Gblock;885930 wrote:wow that is a far reaching statement about black people smh...anyway anything could be racist depending on how it was said and who is saying it...i dont think you mad bro is racist, but if a racist mofo is saying it then i can see folks getting upset.

  Look up the word innocuous, means not harmful or not offensive. Black people drop out of high school right? I can see how that word went over your head.
• Gblock

  Raw Dawgin' it;885934 wrote:Look up the word innocuous, means not harmful or not offensive. Black people drop out of high school right? I can see how that word went over your head.

  you know all black people??? we are looking to make things racist? fail...obviously the folks felt that the people with the sign were racists not necessarily the saying you mad bro was my point. what does drop out of high school have to do with it??
• Scooter1369

  

  Some people can see racism in the morning sunrise.
• WebFire

  Gblock;885960 wrote:you know all black people??? we are looking to make things racist? fail...obviously the folks felt that the people with the sign were racists not necessarily the saying you mad bro was my point. what does drop out of high school have to do with it??

  So if you think I'm racist, and I hold a sign at a football game the says "Go Team!", does that have racial undertones? I'm not seeing your point.
• stroups

  

  They real mad
• thePITman

  

  Coo story, bro.
  
  Oh crap, was that racist?
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Gblock;885960 wrote:1) you know all black people??? we are looking to make things racist? fail...2)obviously the folks felt that the people with the sign were racists not necessarily the saying you mad bro was my point. 3)what does drop out of high school have to do with it??

  Do you know what tongue in cheek means? Because that's what my comments are. You might want to look that up too.
  
  1)Yes i do.
  2)My first point was that they took something not harmful or offensive (innocuous) and turned it racist. They have no reason to think the people who wrote it are.
  3)Clearly black people are dumb and uneducated. smh (this is an example of tongue in cheek).
• Gblock

  Raw Dawgin' it;885975 wrote:Do you know what tongue in cheek means? Because that's what my comments are. You might want to look that up too.
  
  1)Yes i do.
  2)My first point was that they took something not harmful or offensive (innocuous) and turned it racist. They have no reason to think the people who wrote it are.
  3)Clearly black people are dumb and uneducated. smh (this is an example of tongue in cheek).

  and my point was maybe they do have reason to think they are....
  
  and your wit and jokes while hilarious to you as you type them didnt come across as a joke or all that funny. you need to work on your timing and delivery
• Gblock

  WebFire;885971 wrote:So if you think I'm racist, and I hold a sign at a football game the says "Go Team!", does that have racial undertones? I'm not seeing your point.

  Im not saying it was racist...im saying if your not from that community you dont know the undertones that could have been there. if they felt it was im not going to demean them for feeling that way or will i use this to make judgements about all black people. i have lived in rural racist communities when i was young and many times there are ways to indimidate that dont require a sign or words...not saying that was the case here. again im not saying it was racist. but how can you be so sure that it wasnt?
  
  plus this story has got to be all bs because how could the white team beat the black team
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Gblock;885979 wrote:and my point was maybe they do have reason to think they are....
  
  and your wit and jokes while hilarious to you as you type them didnt come across as a joke or all that funny. you need to work on your timing and delivery

  It's an internet forum dude, un ball your panties and go smoke a blunt. I'm sure you have a bob marley mix for that.
• stroups

  

  Paging jemele hill because we all know she mad
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;885984 wrote:It's an internet forum dude, un ball your panties and go smoke a blunt. I'm sure you have a bob marley mix for that.

  lol at "G"block getting mad about racist sterotypes. Username fail.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  So fed up with everything being construed as racism.
• Glory Days

  

  thePITman;885973 wrote:Coo story, bro.
  
  Oh crap, was that racist?

  and "bros before hoes" means black people before hoes? or does bros refer to black guys and hoes to black girls? and why can only black people be bros?
  
  racism confuses me.
• Tiernan

  who knew that "Nappy headed Ho's" was racist just a couple years back? Dis sitchyation is vagaly samiliyar.
• thavoice

  This thread reminds me of two shows.
  
  ONe was a skit on SNL when Eddie Murphy dressed up as a white dude. HIlarious.
  
  The other was a show on FX. It was called Black/White, where a black and a white family basically changed colors (odd thing...the while girl looked much better as a black).
  
  What I learned on the show, and it pretty much confirmed my own thoughts, is that there is MORE racism in the world than the average cracker believes, and LESS racism in the world than the average colored believes.
  
  
  It was a semi interesting show. There would be times the black turned white guy would point something out as racist and I (and the white turned black guy) just didnt see.
• Sonofanump

  stroups;885991 wrote:Paging jemele hill because we all know she mad

  ...and a bro.