The Real Life Uncle Rukus vol. James David Manning

[superantigen]

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Soo not to derail this thread or anything but I have a question regarding the term "Uncle Tom".[/color]

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Why do people (within NT and outside of it) always use that term in an insulting manner? [/color]

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]I ask because I actually just read Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the first time last year and as far as I'm concerned, and to be honest, Uncle Tom was an inspiring character who embodied all that that good and virtuous in an age when, as a black man, he had every right to be wicked and vengeful towards his oppressors.[/color]


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[youngsleezy]

House @%%%%!

 

[seniosoul]

Originally Posted by YoungSleezy

House @%%%%!

 

[antonlavey]

Originally Posted by seniosoul

Originally Posted by YoungSleezy

House @%%%%!

LOL @ this term, let's be real with ourselves...during slavery times if you had the opportunity to live in massa's house most of us would take it. Reminds me of the catcher freeman episode. "Always on massa nuts"

 

[spsfinest212]

This Herb doesn't even let people comment on his videos. %!###*$ @%%@*.

 

[roc boy jada]

Originally Posted by SuperAntigen

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Soo not to derail this thread or anything but I have a question regarding the term "Uncle Tom".[/color]

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Why do people (within NT and outside of it) always use that term in an insulting manner? [/color]

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]I ask because I actually just read Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the first time last year and as far as I'm concerned, and to be honest, Uncle Tom was an inspiring character who embodied all that that good and virtuous in an age when, as a black man, he had every right to be wicked and vengeful towards his oppressors.[/color]


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I swear, I was going to ask about this the next time I saw someone use the term. I had always wanted to know why people used the term in the context in which they use it. It just doesn't make sense.

Originally Posted by AntonLaVey

Originally Posted by seniosoul

Originally Posted by YoungSleezy

House @%%%%!

LOL @ this term, let's be real with ourselves...during slavery times if you had the opportunity to live in massa's house most of us would take it. Reminds me of the catcher freeman episode. "Always on massa nuts"

It's laughable to see people use that term on here most of the time. And yeah, the people using it probably would have been the same ones who would take the opportunity. I mean, look at the conditions house slaves were under; it's not hard to understand why they would do such things.

 

[scorpio04]

Uncle Tom is used to suggest that a black person is subservient to "the white man". Uncle Tom pretty much allowed himself to be exploited and the book was written around the time the abolitionist movement was roaring along. So being kind and manipulated by "the white man" was not praised very much.

 

[abeautifulhaze]

No words for the agent.

But y'all brothas better it together.

Its about to go down.

 

[general johnson]

Originally Posted by SuperAntigen

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Soo not to derail this thread or anything but I have a question regarding the term "Uncle Tom".[/color]

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Why do people (within NT and outside of it) always use that term in an insulting manner? [/color]

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]I ask because I actually just read Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the first time last year and as far as I'm concerned, and to be honest, Uncle Tom was an inspiring character who embodied all that that good and virtuous in an age when, as a black man, he had every right to be wicked and vengeful towards his oppressors.[/color]


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What made Stowe, a free white woman, an expert on the subject she wrote about?

It was fiction from a free white woman's perspective and I hate that people cite it as if it was some sort of accurate account of the times.

No words for the agent.

But y'all brothas better it together.

Its about to go down.
Been ready my brother. These dudes that don't know really have a surprise coming...

The first wave is gonna be brutal and the aftermath will be hell on earth, but it's an inevitability at this point.

 

[southzeztpdot]

When he started to name the states and said oregon i was * dead*

 

[scotthallwithapick]

Nothing surprises me these days

 

[general johnson]

Originally Posted by Roc Boy Jada

I had always wanted to know why people used the term (Uncle Tom) in the context in which they use it. It just doesn't make sense.

Among the stereotypes of blacks in Uncle Tom's Cabin are:[sup][1[/sup]

• The "happy darky" (in the lazy, carefree character of Sam);
• The light-skinned tragic mulatto as a sex object (in the characters of Eliza, Cassy, and Emmeline);
• The affectionate, dark-skinned female mammy (through several characters, including Mammy, a cook at the St. Clare plantation).
• The Pickaninny stereotype of black children (in the character of Topsy);
• The Uncle Tom,or African American who is too eager to please white people (in thecharacter of Uncle Tom). Stowe intended Tom to be a "noble hero." Thestereotype of him as a "subservient fool who bows down to the whiteman" evidently resulted from staged "Tom Shows," over which Stowe had no control.[sup][2[/sup]

@ dudes really buying into that novel like it's gospel.

 

[dipsetgeneral]

 

[antonlavey]

Who the hell gave dude a PhD?

 

[essential1]

"Laura KNOWSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS it too"


"Obama said to Larry oh you just my style and my kind/ Woahhhhhhhhhhhh you look like just what I want my man woman and have whatever to look to look like, Oh yes, Oh yes, Oh Yes.."

Easily worst lyrics to a song ever...

 

[superantigen]

Originally Posted by General Johnson

Originally Posted by SuperAntigen

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Soo not to derail this thread or anything but I have a question regarding the term "Uncle Tom".[/color]

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Why do people (within NT and outside of it) always use that term in an insulting manner? [/color]

[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]I ask because I actually just read Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the first time last year and as far as I'm concerned, and to be honest, Uncle Tom was an inspiring character who embodied all that that good and virtuous in an age when, as a black man, he had every right to be wicked and vengeful towards his oppressors.[/color]


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What made Stowe, a free white woman, an expert on the subject she wrote about?

It was fiction from a free white woman's perspective and I hate that people cite it as if it was some sort of accurate account of the times.

You can't possibly be serious with the first sentence in your reply--can you?

I ask because what you seem to be suggesting, with that first sentence, is that--one can only provide commentary on some state of being only if one has physically experienced said state of being.

That said, I suppose I can't write about the evil that rape is because, well, I have never been raped. Neither can I comment on the evil that American slavery was because, well, I myself was never an American slave. And I certainly can't write and/or comment on the concept of white privilege because, well, I am neither white nor privileged...right?

This is what you're suggesting/implying?

Furthermore, what does it matter who wrote it--racially speaking? Stowes' fiction along with Douglas' Narrative, (and some other papers/books I'm sure I have forgotten/yet to read), depicted for a very ignorant sector of the country, like nothing before had done during those times, just how cruel and inhumane slavery was. Lincoln himself stated that this "fiction" served as a key catalyst for the Civil War and yet, you want to write it off because it was written from the perspective of a "free white woman" who couldn't have possibly been an expert on the subject. Comon son...

Ohh and as far as I'm concerned, it was very accurate account of the times. After all, many of the injustices and evils Stowes noted as being experienced by blacks, could very much be found in the Douglas' Narrative-- a compilation of factual experiences by a black man who escaped from the slave south.


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[me no pass]

Originally Posted by AntonLaVey

Who the hell gave dude a PhD?

university of pheniox

speaking bout uncle ruckus when is the new season on boondocks dropping?

 

[callhimar]

Originally Posted by abeautifulhaze

No words for the agent.

But y'all brothas better it together.

Its about to go down.

Seriously?

What exactly do you think is about to go down?

 

[general johnson]

Originally Posted by SuperAntigen

Once again...

Among the stereotypes of blacks in Uncle Tom's Cabin are:[sup][1[/sup]

• The "happy darky" (in the lazy, carefree character of Sam);
• The light-skinned tragic mulatto as a sex object (in the characters of Eliza, Cassy, and Emmeline);
• The affectionate, dark-skinned female mammy (through several characters, including Mammy, a cook at the St. Clare plantation).
• The Pickaninny stereotype of black children (in the character of Topsy);
• The Uncle Tom,or African American who is too eager to please white people (in thecharacter of Uncle Tom). Stowe intended Tom to be a "noble hero." Thestereotype of him as a "subservient fool who bows down to the whiteman" evidently resulted from staged "Tom Shows," over which Stowe had no control.[sup][2[/sup]

@ dudes really buying into that novel like it's gospel.

But...

 

[superblytrife]

As idiotic as he sounds, the guy is speaking the truth on the part about (*some*) white folks about to get hectic with it. Living where I live, I see a certain breed of white people with a TON of contempt about having a black president. It literally CONSUMES them, and when something like that consumes someone, bad things are sure to come.

Like the other day I was at Publix and saw some dude with a shirt that said "One Big +*% Mistake America", with Barack's picture in the middle. And I started thinking about how I've never seen people this upset about who the president is. Like when Clinton was president, white folks weren't happy but I never saw them rally about $!#$ and rock insulting t-shirts. When Dubya was president there were a ton of people miffed by it but it was more because he was clearly a bumbling idiot who didn't really come off as a good representative for our country. Now people are ANGRY--like after 14 months of being president you'd think that the initial hate would start subsiding. Instead it has gotten much worse, from what I've seen. The more time Obama has in office, the stronger the hate becomes. It's like they just can't accept it. And from personal experience I've noted that a lot of it has nothing to do with his politics. Half the time the people so opposed to the Obama Administration can't even explain the policies (i.e. the Tea Party crowds). So what's the problem then? RACE. Nobody wants to admit that for fear of being labeled a racist, but that's the main beef for a lot of white America when it comes down to it.

So yeah, this dude is speaking truth in that regard. Just give it some time.....the camel's back is about to break.

 

[antonlavey]

Originally Posted by CallHimAR

Originally Posted by abeautifulhaze

No words for the agent.

But y'all brothas better it together.

Its about to go down.

Seriously?

What exactly do you think is about to go down?

IT

 

[shaunhillftw49]

^Took my joke

 

[airmaxpenny1]

Originally Posted by General Johnson

Originally Posted by SuperAntigen

Once again...

Among the stereotypes of blacks in Uncle Tom's Cabin are:[sup][1[/sup]

• The "happy darky" (in the lazy, carefree character of Sam);
• The light-skinned tragic mulatto as a sex object (in the characters of Eliza, Cassy, and Emmeline);
• The affectionate, dark-skinned female mammy (through several characters, including Mammy, a cook at the St. Clare plantation).
• The Pickaninny stereotype of black children (in the character of Topsy);
• The Uncle Tom,or African American who is too eager to please white people (in thecharacter of Uncle Tom). Stowe intended Tom to be a "noble hero." Thestereotype of him as a "subservient fool who bows down to the whiteman" evidently resulted from staged "Tom Shows," over which Stowe had no control.[sup][2[/sup]

@ dudes really buying into that novel like it's gospel.

But...

Your right...The Wire is based-off stereotypes as well...These goddamn whities writing fictional pieces about someone with a different skin???

 

[shaunhillftw49]

5:00 Actually, Clinton cut welfare moron

 

[general johnson]

Originally Posted by airmaxpenny1

well...These goddamn whities writing fictional pieces about someone with a different skin???

Is The Wire required viewing in the same number of educational institutions (if any) that have Uncle Tom's Cabin as required reading? No?

Uh-huh, ok, wussup... you know the rest.