OK I admit it I enjoy watching "real world/road rules" programs from MTV. I don't live by them but enjoy watching them.
This time the "kids" are down in New Zealand/Australia area and going through their "stunts" and during this recent stunt there was a fight. This situation rubbed me the wrong way and I figured I would shoot it over to you guys.
I will try and be brief to speed this along.
Bunch of kids like 3 guys and 4 girls I believe. The ones I am interested in are the (to use generalization to paint the picture) hayseed farm boy from Montana and a gentleman of african decent.
There has been verbal abuse of this Mantana kid throughout the show. He isn't PC enough and is clueless about how to treat the ladies....a young unexperienced kid. He is made fun of as being ingnorant and has not fit in with everyone as most everyone else has.
The guys are practicing for a strip show at a gay strip club and there are comments about this montana boys homophobic attitude....not surprising mind you from his upbringing. He wasn't happy about it but he is going to do the stunt anyway. Well this man of color is taking shoots at him, trying to get a rise and the guy is letting it be known that he is alright and he is doing it....well the other kid is relentless. The African american (I think he is from the states) is loving everyminute of it by look of the huge smile on his face. The montana kid gets agry as he is continually hounded and the african american jumps into his views being "IGN'Rant" this and how he is "IG'nUnt" that....mind you I found his accent funny in this situation.
Not that the montana kid didn't give a little verbal shot at him....he was angry with the other kid and after a question about what was for lunch was brought up....Mr montana said "I hope they have corn bread" Oohhh man of color starts to make a case that that was directed at him being of color. (Well no sh!t sherlock! you have been riding him about being a redneck hick from Montana...duh) back and forth goes the exchange....the african american talking sh!t and the montana kid even appologized and said he was doing it to get his goat becasue.....all the while the african american isn't attempting to discuss just shoot the montana kid with more condecending remarks. There is some puffing from the montana kid and as a third show mate tries and get them out of the same room....the montana kid all enraged at his point....just as he is to leave the room he starts in with the "not a man" stuff and "Ig'nant redneck" lines.
Being young man with his pride all torn up he does a young stupid thing and finally looses it after walking away many times and launches into the other kid. There is a big seperation and they bring the guys and gals into talk about it.
Mr Montana is embarassed and the other kid is all pissed and acts like it was a racial attack. At this point I was wanting to smack the other kid around.
Was this situation a result of the montana kids racial attitude?
Was this the culmination of being harped on my his show mates and the bad blood he and Mr African american had well before?
Who is at fault here?
Of course everyone sides with Mr African american.....without hesitation. Because he has befriended everyone else?.....probably. Because he is the man of color in the situation?...I don't know.
My feeling is the African american kid was asking for it and knew he could get under the montana kids skin....was relentless and did everything right to bring it to blows.
Does he have the right to be offended that the racists remark was made about corn bread, when he had been calling him a racist, ignorant, redneck from montana?
I am tending to side with the white boy....does that make me racist or non-PC?
RhinofromWA
This time the "kids" are down in New Zealand/Australia area and going through their "stunts" and during this recent stunt there was a fight. This situation rubbed me the wrong way and I figured I would shoot it over to you guys.
I will try and be brief to speed this along.
Bunch of kids like 3 guys and 4 girls I believe. The ones I am interested in are the (to use generalization to paint the picture) hayseed farm boy from Montana and a gentleman of african decent.
There has been verbal abuse of this Mantana kid throughout the show. He isn't PC enough and is clueless about how to treat the ladies....a young unexperienced kid. He is made fun of as being ingnorant and has not fit in with everyone as most everyone else has.
The guys are practicing for a strip show at a gay strip club and there are comments about this montana boys homophobic attitude....not surprising mind you from his upbringing. He wasn't happy about it but he is going to do the stunt anyway. Well this man of color is taking shoots at him, trying to get a rise and the guy is letting it be known that he is alright and he is doing it....well the other kid is relentless. The African american (I think he is from the states) is loving everyminute of it by look of the huge smile on his face. The montana kid gets agry as he is continually hounded and the african american jumps into his views being "IGN'Rant" this and how he is "IG'nUnt" that....mind you I found his accent funny in this situation.
Not that the montana kid didn't give a little verbal shot at him....he was angry with the other kid and after a question about what was for lunch was brought up....Mr montana said "I hope they have corn bread" Oohhh man of color starts to make a case that that was directed at him being of color. (Well no sh!t sherlock! you have been riding him about being a redneck hick from Montana...duh) back and forth goes the exchange....the african american talking sh!t and the montana kid even appologized and said he was doing it to get his goat becasue.....all the while the african american isn't attempting to discuss just shoot the montana kid with more condecending remarks. There is some puffing from the montana kid and as a third show mate tries and get them out of the same room....the montana kid all enraged at his point....just as he is to leave the room he starts in with the "not a man" stuff and "Ig'nant redneck" lines.
Being young man with his pride all torn up he does a young stupid thing and finally looses it after walking away many times and launches into the other kid. There is a big seperation and they bring the guys and gals into talk about it.
Mr Montana is embarassed and the other kid is all pissed and acts like it was a racial attack. At this point I was wanting to smack the other kid around.
Was this situation a result of the montana kids racial attitude?
Was this the culmination of being harped on my his show mates and the bad blood he and Mr African american had well before?
Who is at fault here?
Of course everyone sides with Mr African american.....without hesitation. Because he has befriended everyone else?.....probably. Because he is the man of color in the situation?...I don't know.
My feeling is the African american kid was asking for it and knew he could get under the montana kids skin....was relentless and did everything right to bring it to blows.
Does he have the right to be offended that the racists remark was made about corn bread, when he had been calling him a racist, ignorant, redneck from montana?
I am tending to side with the white boy....does that make me racist or non-PC?
RhinofromWA