Watermelon Man

[about_average]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/02/11/275087586/study-stereotypes-drive-perceptions-of-race

Pretty interesting.

 

[Couran]

Listen to odin noorani that is a classy groove

 

[ryan8558]

Mongo Santamaria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43vckpRjMk

 

[Busybody]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/02/11/275087586/study-stereotypes-drive-perceptions-of-race

Pretty interesting.

petty interesting

a soon as I got to this

VEDANTAM: Well, there's an assumption that's built into all those tracking systems that you mentioned, Steve, and that assumption is that a person's race is fixed. If we figure out today that you're white, we expect that you will be white next year.

one knows the whole piece is INSANE

 

[about_average]

Mongo Santamaria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43vckpRjMk

Nope, this is the soundtrack song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C69UGWodpcI

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/206875~Watermelon-Man-Posters.jpg

 

[mamasota]

Mongo Santamaria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43vckpRjMk

*sorry, a detour, just wanted to say this song brightened my morning, all that brass!
I did not know it had any racial connotations

 

[Not Normal]

That tune always reminds me of Jr High jazz band.

 

[ryan8558]

Herbie Hancock talking about composing Watermelon Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzPZvKSdN7g

 

[trysail]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/02/11/275087586/study-stereotypes-drive-perceptions-of-race

Pretty interesting.

Code Switch is the private blog of a racist named Gene Demby who has been enabled by NPR. Comments that displease him are immediately deleted and the offender is forever banned from further comment.

The series is a prime example of blatant NPR bias, racism and hypocrisy.



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[about_average]

Code Switch is the private blog of a racist named Gene Demby who has been enabled by NPR. Comments that displease him are immediately deleted and the offender is forever banned from further comment.

The series is a prime example of blatant NPR bias, racism and hypocrisy.

The best I can come up with in response is....




That said, if you want to show how the piece is biased, racist or contains hypocrisy, please do.

 

[sircumvent]

Willis Alan Ramsey - Watermelon Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHv1gV7E1PM