even though there's a black guy fronting the band why do i still feel like an asshole when i namedrop the negro problem?

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i mean, if it doesn't bother him it should not bother my cracker ass.

― notfazed (notfazed), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

not true, i'm sure there'd be an uproar if there was a band of christians with a jewish lead singer called the Jewish Problem.

― D Aziz (esquire1983), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

cuz they 5uXorz!!

― ILM Asshole (Keiko), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(I'm not sure about that analogy, actually: one substantive difference is that there's not, to my knowledge, ever been a common phrase "the Jewish problem," whereas "the Negro problem" was relatively common parlance up until people came around and started calling it stuff like "the Civil Rights Movement.")

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 3 May 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Searched the web for "the Jewish Problem". Results 11 - 20 of about 7,910.

Searched the web for "Jewish Problem". Results 1 - 10 of about 11,100.

Searched the web for "the Negro Problem". Results 1 - 10 of about 5,100.

Searched the web for "Negro Problem". Results 1 - 10 of about 6,810.

― d k (d k), Sunday, 4 May 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

On the flipside, I can't help but Imagine a black guy in a Flash Costume whenever I say "Turbonegro"
http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/image.php?img=darkflash.gif
"My name iz Wally Washington, an' I'm the fastest nigga alive. And this is mah bitch, XS"
http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/image.php?img=jenni1.gif

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 4 May 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Under what circumstances would anyone ever name-drop The Negro Problem?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 4 May 2003 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah that was a weird statement. "the Jewish problem" was/is a very common nazi statement.

― David Allen, Sunday, 4 May 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

god that's in poor taste, custos.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 May 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

But its hilarious.

― David Allen, Sunday, 4 May 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, I think We Are All In Agreement, anyone who would name-drop The Negro Problem would, by very definition, be an Asshole.

― rumplestiltskin, Sunday, 4 May 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, would there really be an "uproar" if there were a band called The Jewish Problem? For the same reasons notfazed doesn't want to namedrop The Negro Problem, or because it's a holocaust reference? If there can be Joy Division, punks with swastikas, Bowie with heil hitler, openly racist Scandinavian metal, etc. etc.....

― Adam A. (Keiko), Sunday, 4 May 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, my blind spot, I guess: I'd not really seen "the Jewish problem" in frequent use.

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 4 May 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

See Karl Marx, born Jewish, "On the Jewish Question".

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 4 May 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

how is that related?

― d k (d k), Sunday, 4 May 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Cos he fronted a punk rock band called "On the Jewish Question"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 4 May 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

god that's in poor taste, custos.
Hey...where'd the pics go to? That XS pic was soooo awesome!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 4 May 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It's still in poor taste even w/o the pics. Christ, at least use "ninja" Custos.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 4 May 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The voice in my head was Ice Cube, and he never woulda said Ninja. I'm just quoting him.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 4 May 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Having never heard the band I think I agree with ILM Asshole and rumpelstiltskin.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 4 May 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The voice in my head was Ice Cube, and he never woulda said Ninja.

Dude, he so would have.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 4 May 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Which Ice Cube are you thinking of, Dan?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 4 May 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, he so would have.
*sigh*
Daniel...if I had said Ninja, the post would stop making sense.
The Flash isn't a ninja, but even the white version of the Flash uses gangsta rapper slang on occasion. Also: If I had said "Ninja" it would've overcomplicated the mental image I was trying to evoke.

"He's Black! He's the Flash! He's a...a...Ninja? WTF!?"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 4 May 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ninjas really kick ass.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Sunday, 4 May 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Searched the web for "the Negro Problem". Results 1 - 10 of about 5,100.

Searched the web for "Negro Problem". Results 1 - 10 of about 6,810.

Just out of curiousity, how many of these were about the actual band?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 5 May 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

*sigh*
Custos, if I actually have to explain to you why a black ninja dressed as The Flash would be the greatest thing evah and as such would make any rockist sense-making criterias redundant, there is no hope for you...

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 5 May 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Bah. There are too many nimbos (ninja bimbo/ninja himbos) in comics already. Finding one with a tan and a gangsta strut wouldn't automatically make him cool. Besides:
Gangsta: Does everything in his power to make himself conspicious
Ninja: Does everything in his power to make himself inconspicious
Besides, we already know that the ulitmate Black Badass is that ultimate voodoo anarchist"
http://www.barbelith.com/bomb/char_crow.jpg
Jim Crow of the Invisibles!
STRAIGHT OUTTA CAMPTOWN!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 5 May 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Fame, all of a sudden. Kinda. (I gather Forksclovetofu did a post on this elsewhere.)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 May 2007 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

That play sounds interesting.

― filthy dylan, Monday, 21 May 2007 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

Yea, the article on Stew and the attached review of the play make me wish it will tour (since the NY run is short)

― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

me too. I like the band and I like Stew.

― tremendoid, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Still lovin' the Stew; scared that at one point Adam Duritz and I agreed on something/anything.

― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

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