Contessa Brewer: "Is it even cool anymore to be White?"

[bicentennial_baby]

[ecstatic]

1. Uggh I caught that... WTF? It's like she went into full supremacist mode

Teh Blax taking over everything! SEries11!! Tiger Woods, Sean Combs, yada yada

[bicentennial_baby]

2. It was a really strange interview!

I wasn't really listening until she said that.

[bullwinkle428]

19. Oh noes!!1! You forgot Lewis Hamilton!!1!1!

[Orrex]

3. I feel cool every time I show off my stiff-hipped dance moves

[foxfeet]

23. WD-40 can help.

[damntexdem]

4. Not for her.

No race/ethnicity is cool in her case.

[htuttle]

5. Um...when has it EVER been 'cool' to be white?

Cool?

Privileged, sure. But cool? Never.

[bicentennial_baby]

9. LOL, exactly

[Orrex]

10. It's cool if you're a young Marlon Brando or a non-dead James Dean

[Terran]

6. LOL, it's never been cool to be white. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

7. What program are you referring to? n/t

[bicentennial_baby]

8. It was on MSNBC a little while ago

[FreeStateDemocrat]

11. Is it cool now to be a racist?

[Political Heretic]

30. After several hundred years we can take a little table turning I feel

Sorry I'm never, ever, going to give a shit about the charge of "white racism" anymore than I am going to give a shit about the charge of "heterophobia"

[Orsino]

12. Finally, someone willing to speak out on how hard it is to be white.

Thanks, MSNBC.

[bicentennial_baby]

13. She did sound kinda sad

I hope they replay the interview...I gotta see that again.

[robertpaulsen]

14. George Carlin said it best.

"Be yourselves. You're white, you're lame, get the fuck off the dance floor!"

[lame54]

15. Let's ask Al...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

"White & Nerdy"

They see me mowin'
My front lawn
I know they're all thinking
I'm so White N' nerdy

Think I'm just too white n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white n' nerdy
Can't you see I'm white n' nerdy
Look at me I'm white n' nerdy!
I wanna roll with-
The gangsters
But so far they all think
I'm too white n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white n' nerdy
I'm just too white n' nerdy
Really, really white n' nerdy

First in my class here at M.I.T.
Got skills, I'm a Champion of DND
MC Escher that's my favorite MC
Keep your 40
I'll just have an Earl Grey tea
My rims never spin to the contrary
You'll find they're quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Steven Hawkings in my library
My MySpace page is all totally pimped out
I got people begging for my top 8 spaces
Yo I know Pi to a thousand places
Ain't got no grills but I still wear braces
I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I'm a whiz at minesweeper I can play for days
Once you see my sweet moves you're gonna stay amazed,
my fingers movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze
There's no killer app I haven't run
At Pascal, well, I'm number 1
Do vector calculus just for fun
I ain't got a gat but I gotta soldering gun
Happy days is my favourite theme song
I can sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I'll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I'm fluent in Java Script as well as Klingon
Here's the part I sing on

They see me roll on, my Segway!
I know in my heart they think I'm
white n' nerdy!
Think I'm just too white n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white n' nerdy
Can't you see I'm white n' nerdy
Look at me I'm white n' nerdy
I'd like to roll with-
The gangsters
Although it's apparent I'm too
White n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white n' nerdy
I'm just too white n' nerdy
How'd I get so white n' nerdy?

I've been browsing, inspectin'
X-men comics you know I collect 'em
The pens in my pocket
I must protect 'em
my ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored
Shopping online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
I got a business doing websites
When my friends need some code who do they call?
I do HTML for them all
Even made a homepage for my dog!
Yo! Got myself a fanny pack
they were having a sale down at the GAP
Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
POP POP! Hope no one sees me gettin' freaky!

I'm nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour creme
I was in AV club and Glee club and even the chess team!
Only question I ever thought was hard
Was do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?
I spend every weekend
at the renaissance fair
I got my name on my under wear!

They see me strollin'
They laughin'
And rollin' their eyes 'cause
I'm so white n' nerdy
Just because I'm white n' nerdy
Just because I'm white n' nerdy
All because I'm white n' nerdy
Holy cow I'm white n' nerdy
I wanna bowl with-
the gangsters
but oh well it's obvious I'm
white n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white n' nerdy
I'm just too white n' nerdy
Look at me I'm white n' nerdy!

[BeliQueen]

24. One of my favorite Weird Al songs

Just genius and I can relate to a lot of it even if I am black.

Black Nerds Unite!

[AlCzervik]

16. Don't hate on whitey fool!

//white chick.

[bicentennial_baby]

17. Heehee

[Stinky The Clown]

18. Really, that isn't fair ........

..... that's quite out of context. She was interviewing someone who wrote an article postulating that America is more post racial than it might seem, and that Obama's election was an indicator of that. The flip side of his thesis is that whites are on the decline. They also spoke about young white people saying - without animus - that it isn't so cool anymore to be white.

I'm not taking up for the Airheaded Contessa. I think she's a moron. But this particular quote you cite was out of context and in that respect, misleading about Ms. Brewer's motives in saying it.

[Warpy]

20. Hey POINDEXTER!

The power elites are never cool! They might aspire to follow fashion but they are never capable of setting it. They merely adopt it as expensively as possible in order to show the truly cool how it should be done if one has any taste or breeding at all.

You want cool, look at the disenfranchised to find it: the young, the poor, the female, the black.

[Jennicut]

21. No its cool to be smart regardless of race and Contessa lacks a brain

[rurallib]

22. well I googled her so now I know what she looks like

Contessa, my dear, being stupid is never cool.

[cbc5g]

25. Cool isn't a skin color, idiot

It's sad that we still can't get over race in our society.

[sweetpotato]

26. I thought all the cool people were GLBT? At least they are around here.

that is all.

[Fleshdancer]

27. That level of stupidity should be physically painful for her

When I become leader of the universe, stupidity will be painful for the person talking. It will feel like a migraine and the only way to ease the pain is by reading certain publications. I haven't decided which publications would be used for this yet. I think I'll have my transition team help compile a list.

Wanna be on my transition team Econ??? You can choose as many obscure economic journals if you want! Then we can laugh when Contessa moves her lips when reading them!

[Bake]

28. The first thing I thought of was Chris Rock ...

"Not ONE of you white people would change places with me! And I'm RICH! Nope, just gonna ride this white thing out ..."

Bale

[Political Heretic]

29. That was funny.

[Forkboy]

31. Ask us again when you go for a loan.

What a pip.

[TexasObserver]

32. The only person on television who can out stupid Mika Brzezinski

[Gormy Cuss]

33. According to wiki, she was born in the town where Carolyn Chute lives.

I'm guessing she's related to the author-cum-militia woman or at least is depicted as one of the fictional Beans.

What a twit.

[spanone]

34. she's not white, she's clear

[mitchum]

35. It makes me want to throw my cocktail across the lawn

[HughBeaumont]

36. Wow. Wit and Wisdumb from Con-titsy Brewer.

Do ANY of NBC networks NOT have trollopy dopes doing their anchorwork?