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Post by barney on Aug 31, 2006 21:03:21 GMT -5
Lost Churches of La.
I don't know if this is true, but it makes for a funny story either way.
Lost Churches of Louisiana,
One of the local television stations in South Louisiana actually aired an interview with a woman from New Orleans. The interviewer was a woman from a Boston affiliate. She asked the woman how such total and complete devastation of the churches in the area had affected their lives.
Without hesitation, the woman replied, " I don't know about all those other people, but we haven't gone to Churches in years. We gits our chicken from Popeye's."
The look on the interviewer's face was priceless
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2006 8:22:29 GMT -5
Hi barney - I am an Aussie. I have been to Louisiana, but the context of this post eludes me. Is "Churches" a restaurant?
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Post by las logged out on Sept 1, 2006 8:59:00 GMT -5
I think the word church often gets two meanings I believe church means people Gods people where ever they are! but we often hear people still today refer to church has this or that group I do not think it will ever change
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Post by 6hudgaq on Sept 1, 2006 11:28:48 GMT -5
Hi barney - I am an Aussie. I have been to Louisiana, but the context of this post eludes me. Is "Churches" a restaurant? yes.. churches is a restuarant which serves southern food (ie. chicken). the sterotype is that black pple eat lots of fried chicken. which is true.. however, everyone eats lots of chicken. but if that story is funny, its pretty funny.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2006 17:37:59 GMT -5
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Post by explanation on Sept 1, 2006 17:42:08 GMT -5
Urban legends and jokes are often used as vehicles to pass along negative perceptions about members of other groups because the process of telling them provides an at-arm's-length way of communicating prejudices by framing them as the underpinnings of funny stories. Tellers retain deniability for the content of what is being expressed by shrugging off any implications of racism and maintaining they're merely repeating amusing stories.
In that vein, the above-quoted item delivers the goods quite effectively — its humor is fueled by a number of nasty stereotypes about blacks: they're unintelligent, they love fried chicken, and they're animalistic in terms of what motivates them (that is, they think in terms of food, clothing, shelter, shiny things, and sex). So when a black resident of New Orleans is asked her feelings about the loss of churches in her area due to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, she naturally responds (in "mammy"-style dialect) with an answer that unwittingly demonstrates that physical nourishment is a far more important part of her reality than is spiritual nourishment, mistaking a question about houses of worship for one about fast food outlets. (Church's and Popeyes are both popular chains of chicken restaurants.)
Of course, there was no such interview in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as the one described above.
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Post by Cali on Sept 1, 2006 22:52:42 GMT -5
I'm curious, "Explanation", where do you read anything in the first post about the woman's race?
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Post by Gene on Sept 2, 2006 3:04:53 GMT -5
I'm curious, "Explanation", where do you read anything in the first post about the woman's race? I won't answer for "explanation", but I will say that, while the first post does not mention race, any reader familiar with the context of the story (location, reported majority of Katrina victim's, dialect of the word 'gits', stereotypes involving racial affinity for fried chicken) will know immediately that there is a race component to the story.
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Post by Bert unlogged on Sept 2, 2006 6:50:10 GMT -5
Maybe it concerns those rednecks or "poor white trash?"
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Post by nitro on Sept 2, 2006 9:57:00 GMT -5
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Post by explanation on Sept 2, 2006 10:26:10 GMT -5
I'm curious, "Explanation", where do you read anything in the first post about the woman's race? www.snopes.com/katrina/humor/churches.aspi didnt rite that fricckin shiet i just sliced and glue that shiet 4 foriegner peoples who friggin dont gits it. Cali, hop u friggin gitz it now
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Post by barney on Sept 2, 2006 15:33:43 GMT -5
The answer to your question is just quite simply yes, it is a restaurant. Now you get the joke without all the other racist remarks that others have made here don't you.
And by the way Aussie, everyone talk with that kind of accent in Louisiana.
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Post by hawk on Sept 2, 2006 17:55:45 GMT -5
I don't understand why some folks get so defensive about jokes. I thought the above joke was humorous. I envisioned the setting clearly because the joke was delivered flawlessly.
Now, those who get defensive will ask if I am black or if I know anyone black (African-American). That is neither here nor there. I get a kick out of many clean ethnic or life-style jokes. Many jokes ask you in a way if you have the ability to recognize and/or associate with the joke. If you have ever known a black person, especially female, the joke makes sense. View it realistically instead of negatively. You will live longer.
Signed by a Scandinavian-American . . . Hawk.
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Post by honesty on Sept 2, 2006 19:15:05 GMT -5
The racial undertone of the anecdote stood out to me as well. However, being more objective than most, I can usually spot a fake story by the use of the word "actually".
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Post by FUNNY JOKE on Aug 23, 2007 22:17:32 GMT -5
Urban legends and jokes are often used as vehicles to pass along negative perceptions about members of other groups because the process of telling them provides an at-arm's-length way of communicating prejudices by framing them as the underpinnings of funny stories. Tellers retain deniability for the content of what is being expressed by shrugging off any implications of racism and maintaining they're merely repeating amusing stories. In that vein, the above-quoted item delivers the goods quite effectively — its humor is fueled by a number of nasty stereotypes about blacks: they're unintelligent, they love fried chicken, and they're animalistic in terms of what motivates them (that is, they think in terms of food, clothing, shelter, shiny things, and sex). So when a black resident of New Orleans is asked her feelings about the loss of churches in her area due to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, she naturally responds (in "mammy"-style dialect) with an answer that unwittingly demonstrates that physical nourishment is a far more important part of her reality than is spiritual nourishment, mistaking a question about houses of worship for one about fast food outlets. (Church's and Popeyes are both popular chains of chicken restaurants.) Of course, there was no such interview in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as the one described above. WOW! Talk about having a corn-cob shoved up your ass! It must suck to have your words echo in infamy on the internet even long after you committed your idiocy to the net. Your name may not be here, but your stupidity is on record.
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Post by wingsofaneagle on Aug 23, 2007 22:33:00 GMT -5
Oh lawdy! ;D
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Post by Jose on Aug 24, 2007 14:31:01 GMT -5
Hey! There is no racism involved. It doesn't say fried chicken. It just says chicken. And as sumun else pointed out, de all talk thataway down der. Jose can you see, by the dawn's early light?
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