Your truly will be interviewing this chica so she can explain how she’s become so hilarious.
You know what’s hilarious? Like 90% of the stuff she says, I’ve heard. It’s funny because it’s true. Thanks to all the ladies in the BB&W Crew for the lead!
Look, listen and laugh your A off. Just a warning though–don’t have a a mouth full of coffee when you do.
Great news! Franchesca will grace the halls of BB&W soon, because we rock so much, I snagged an interview. 
DeeDeeRussell *harassed*
Mocha Z Sorry to hear what is happening to your DD. And thank you very much!! Happened to me at an event just last night in Oakland, CA. I'm wearing genie locs as a protective style, right? That's Yarn! Looks like sisterlocs, I never correct them if they ask. WW up and grabbed a few of them, fingering the ends "is this YARN??" as I was fingering her processed hair "is this BLEACHED?" Lol! The convo was quite short :)
DeeDeeRussellMocha Z
hyah!! lol!
Did anyone see her on the Anderson Cooper show, explaining why she did the video? Apparently, a lot of white people have taken offense at the things she said in the video, some even saying that she is racist for doing that. I missed the show today, but I saw a couple of clips on the show's website.
She also has a very sweet video about how her rainbeau proposed to her in Paris.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkuYiZ8Wkn4&list=UUzkFu0AVOtXy-vToO28mJxw&index=15&feature=plpp_video
torgodog woohoo! <3
Yeah. My personal favourite is "Oh, wow, you're from Hong Kong? Do you know [some random guy in Windsor, OT]; he's from Peking!"
1. Peking? What, is he a duck? Yeah, I think I ate him last month.
2. Uhhhhh, no. There's about 1.4 times 10 to the 9th of us, divided by 2 so that the women are excluded. Probably not.
Law Wanxi
Ignorance can be really hilarious.
I know many African guys who impress white women by telling stories about how they have fought lions and got chased out by elephants in Africa.
Joyce345Law Wanxi NO. NO!! They actually said they fought lions??? *dying of laughter*
Joyce345Law WanxiTheFrocker x.X LOL!
ForestElfQueenLaw WanxiTheFrocker
Those women have got to be blondes.
She is genius and so pretty! She used to post on OhNoYouDidnt ages ago when she was in college, she was very nonconformist then and continues to this day I remember checking out her college design projects she was big-time even back then.
That said, I'm so used to white folks saying everything and more in that video that I just kinda blinked :) its good to see that experience shared with the world! My pet peeve is "I'm color blind...I don't see color"
DeeDeeRussell
DeeDee, I went through a period of claiming to be colorblind. I thought of it as an attitude more than anything else. It took a while, but I grew out of it.
Anyone who says they don't see color is either lieing to you or lieing to him/herself. Unless that person really is blind like Stevie Wonder.
As for me, I not only see color, I rejoice in it, just as I rejoice in cultural differences, differences of religio-spiritual belief systems. Those very differences make life NOT BORING, worth living, and offer learning experiences beyond some folk's narrow-minded imaginations.
NATruthstudentDeeDeeRussell often I don't(see color/race) in a way. It's hard to explain.
Aesthetically/visually yes, duh,.. but it's not just a constant thing unless something weird happens or something is said that highlights it? does that make sense?
I get it.
NATruthstudent You had to bring my favorite artist, Stevie Wonder, into the convo :)
DeeDeeRussell
(In my best John Wayne voice) Well, shucks, little lady, if I'd a known that, I'd a brung him in sooner!
OH GOOODIE GOOODIE GOOODIE!!! I Love her, as you know :) I can't wait for the interview!!!!
Lol, I don't think I could have remained "friends" with people who said stupid stuff like this.
I was cracking up on this a few mornings ago! Love her acting! Soooooo very true!Culture comedy has to be some of the funniest stuff.
The stuff people say is getting worse since most of the black kids want to be "nice" to their friends. People throw around stuff that no one would dream of saying. I don't see it as a move to being more comfortable with each other.
Dee Dee's approach to people touching your hair is a good example. They would freak if you reciprocated with comments that pertained to stereotypes of whites. I'm sure a friend would freak if you said this when they came to dinner at your house....
"Girl, here's your plastic fork because you all kissing dogs in the mouth doesn't sit well with me."
Just wondering why people say stuff without considering what it means.
Years ago, my friend, newly married and moved from India had a ww say how sad it was that she was sold to her husband! Huh? On the flip, these ww were giving up the vajayjay for a big mac and some grocery store roses but they would have flipped had she said that.
Back to laughing about the dumb stuff.......I love youtube....home comedy central!
lol people say these things? Lol
blackpanthershay Unfortunately yeh...i've gotten: 'you're not really black' 'what you like______. you've been to _______, you eat/don't eat_________"... the tanning comparisons "i'm gonna get/ ...over the summer i was as tan as you (extending the forearm gesture)", People asking if i already knew random afro-something/biracial ppl from my synagogue.
funniest was at the airport SFO, customs line, I was traveling alone and the woman told me to "catch up with your parents so you don't get separated' , the nice-looking AA couple ahead was not my 'rents. At least she seemed slightly embarrassed. haha
I've also occasionally been in line at supermarkets with either my husband(sans kids) or my mom and the cashier just assumes we're not together.[finishes ringing purchase] "How are you doing today?[looks for my items]"o.O me<--- > "umm I'm with him/her" ..clerk:"Ohhh, sorry"
The last are Euro gals curious about Afro guys have asked me 'I'm thinking of going out with a black guy/'crossing over ' [yes, she actually said that ..."crossing over"..so dramatic] "...what's it like?!'"
me---> (gale of laughter) "I wouldn't know, I've never been with one" her: "What?!!, OMG"
Also had a weird reunion with a girl from my college and one of the very first thing she tells me is that she's 'dating a black guy.' I was like 'ok, cool...and' I didn't see how it was relevant...maybe i was supposed to be impressed or shocked. I dunno.
blackpanthershay that should read:
'What? You like____?!' etc. ...arggh...typing too quickly. -.-
ForestElfQueen Actually I have gotten the supermarket scenario a few times as well but from all people
That is hilarious "I don't know, I've never been with one". I'd say exactly the same thing, since as a black woman, I've never been with a black guy, either. I just never had an attraction for them. The only time I ever liked black guys was when I was very young and got a couple of small crushes on some of the guys in my middle school lol. And now, it's a couple of actors such as Idris Elba and Chiwitel Ejifor. That's it.
ForestElfQueenblackpanthershay I get older white ladies all the time ask me, "Do you know if this is on sale?" when I'm shopping at the mall. Assuming I work there. I'm like chick, don't you see me with clothes in my hand too? I had that happen once at the mall last year and once at a fundraising event. The lady asked "Is there meat in this dish?" assuming I was part of the kitchen staff. Oy vey.
R. Kamariablackpanthershay I've had that shopping thing 'do you work here...do you have this in a 10?' too...
....or at the register they'd ask "Oh! are you on your break?" I'd tell them 'no' when alone but, at one point, my mom and I would had this kind of running joke where we'd just say 'yes' lolz.. or one would say yes and another would say no(usually me messing it up haha)
The story of my life...... lol
HILARIOUS!!!!!
Love this video. It's still funny beginning to end every time I watch it which proves it's TRUE comedy. I too have also heard over 90% of what was said in this video from my white female friends. :)
ROFL!
I saw her clip earlier this week and I think she's hilarious. "OMG, this kinda looks like you!" *dead*
hahahah.... file under 'Sad but True'
Ughh lol
Loved it when I saw it on Andrew Sullivan's blog.
This one is also hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXDpfhehb6I&feature=related
Patricia Kayden I got half way through and was laughing so much I had to stop it!
Patricia Kayden That one is pretty funny too....
I am floored at how on point this is! I'm much older but I got the exact same stuff in college and in corporate. My fave was "I totally forget that you're black." Wow, um, good for you?
Lili2009 Lol...."I totally forget that you're black."
That is the "best"insult they can give. As if being black is a problem if they remembered! WTC
Mocha Z When white women said that to me, they thought they were being "color blind" and that their forgetting was a credit to THEM. But, my blood would run cold when they said that because I would wonder, "why are you all happy that you forgot?"
Lili2009 I'm still trying to understand that statement LOL ! I struggled in HS and College with how to respond to that. But anything close to those comments now, are quickly rectified with "what does my color have to do with our conversation?"
sherri73Lili2009
Thank you, Sherri! You said what I think!
Lili2009
Lili, I can relate to that one. I recall a long conversation I had with a "sistah" back in New York. All of a sudden, she looked at me and said, "I've been enjoying talking with you so much I forgot you were white!"
I really didn't have a good answer for that, simply because the fact of different skin color just doesn't matter to me. So what I DID say was, 'What difference does that make?"
You got an interview? Can't wait! I read her Huffington Post blog about being an "oreo." I love how she takes a sticky issue and uses it for humor.
Yay for the interview! :)
"Kinda racist." Lol!!
Too funny and yes this stuff happened back in the day just with out that whiny valley girl type accent.
Brenda55 I grew up with the whiny valley girls stuff in So Cal but the surfer dude sound wasn't much better either! I loved L.A. but some stuff was a bit murch, lol.
This isn't funny...my dd just got multi harrased on the same level as the Sh*t white girls say part 1 at her tennis academy. They seem to be teaming up on her.
She is still in training but so far today she has used the DeeDee Russel approach of reaching to touch hair the wg hair and reciprocating on saying stupid sh*t stereotypes about wg as I have suggested to her. Problem is, the academy is full of the same kind of kids, rich and dumb.
I guess mama bear will intervene AFTER baby bear goes back in with a can of stupid raid to defend her self with the tools taught by none other than the ladies here! Thanks ladies. A special shout out to DeeDeeRussell on this one!
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