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NAACP Rejects
Most African-American Stereotypes
NEW YORK- The National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) released a statement Thursday
denying virtually every stereotype regarding African-Americans. At
a press conference, president and CEO Kweisi Mfume said:
We are still living with
the entirely untrue racist labels placed on African-Americans hundreds
of years ago. We [African-Americans] do not enjoy sitting on our
porches, nor do we frequently drink malt liquor from 40-ounce bottles.
We do not wear our hats backward, nor our pants with one leg bunched up,
and we certainly wear more than just Fila and FUBU. We love to swim.
Also, few of us are afraid of dogs. Our hair is not nappy, our buttocks
not big, our noses and lips not wide, and our legs are plenty hairy.
Our elbows, knees, and heels are smooth and moist. We are not prone
to stealing things and we think white women are ugly. We never buy
cheap cars and put expensive stereo systems in them. As for the stereos
we have, we always keep them playing at a courteous level. As for
the cars, we always drive with our seats up and both hands on the wheel.
We rarely use swear words, and our grammar is always perfect. The
great majority of us think Chris Rock is lewd and inappropriate.
We never call women derogatory names like “bitches” or “hos.” We
do not smoke Kool and most of us have never heard of Newport. We
do not smoke Buddha, nor chronic, nor hocus-pocus, nor any other narcotics.
We barely know the meanings of the words “fly,” “dope,” “trick,” “phat,”
“dawg,” and “off the hook,” among others. Those of us who are musicians
know what guitars and drums are and how to use them to make music.
We rarely sing about guns or women. Our handshakes are not complicated
at all. We do not like to make fun of white people. We never
talk about the “white man” holding us down. We do not name our daughters
after perfumes with “ita” added to the end. We do not necessarily
like the taste of sweet potato pie, nor collard greens, nor fried chicken,
nor watermelon. I don’t even know what chitlins are. Just about
all the others I’ve forgotten are false, too. I hope this aids in
the removal of racial boundaries and what not.
When asked if any African-American
stereotypes are true, Mfume responded: “Well our dicks are huge.
Oh, and we can dance like a motherfucker.”
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