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The fist bump was extremely cheesy. Obamassiah and his wife know who they are trying to impress though so it worked.
I doubt it had anything to do with the comment. Does anyone know what the shows ratings were? I'll bet the answer lies there!
As for the comment, I would say she was ignorant and decided to do the same thing that was done with the scarf in the commercial. Show that things can be misinterpreted. Besides, I never knew what it meant for sure. Everyone I ever see using that gesture is a wanna-be gang banger, or thug of some sort. I have never seen respectable people use that gesture.
The fist bump was extremely cheesy. Obamassiah and his wife know who they are trying to impress though so it worked.
I saw Jack and Richard Hamilton give each other a fist pump in a commercial. I see ball players and all sorts of people doing this for quite some time.
I guess they should have gone with the chest bump instead.
Are they respectable people?
Now keep in mind, I'm not saying they aren't respectable. Just that I never see respectable people doing it myself.
Fist bump is another of those gangsta/ghetto/urban/prison negative contributions to pop culture that whitey thinks makes him so cool, when it really just makes him lame(r).
The closed fist, palm down is primarily a weapon, a sign of power and aggression, or a very least the symbol of a weapon, and of closure and opposition. Understandable that is comes out of black culture.
Whitey's palm-to-palm handshake was supposedly, originally meant to show something like "Fear not, I have no weapon, I open my hand (myself) to you".
The HUSSEINS!' fist bumping as Muslim terrrorism is of course about as high a level of relevant political discourse the right wing can attain.
Now, where the did hugging get into the act?
The Americans are ing insane about hugging, only in the past 20 or 30 years.
Does it have any meaning?
Does it bring people together?
And it's a certain kind of hugging.
Shoulder-to-shoulder only,
with no more/no less than exactly 3 pats on the back,
and above no chest-to-chest nor
waist-to-waist contact.
aka, stick your butt out and lean over to Ameri-hug.
People are ing weird sheeple.
Jack in the Box commercial. What does "respectable" mean in your view? Are ball players not respectable? If you've ever seen an NBA game you'll players give each other a fist bump all the time.
Have you been living in a hole?
Ever hear of the Jail Blazers?
I see it. I don't know any of them I see doing it to be respectable. I could be wrong. Just an observation.
I must live in a hole. I simply never see people I think of as respectable doing what has become a common gang symbol. It's like also never seeing respectable people wear their pants like prison fairies, but that's a different thread yet.
Gang symbol?Oh man you are just plain WAY out there in right field with that comment.
I have personally exchanged "daps" (a term for the fist bump) with executives (including CEOs) of no less than 3 Fortune 20 companies.
Whether or not those gentlemen are respectable, I'll leave for you to judge.
I fail to understand why we (the black community in particular, but also whites and Mexicans) get our criminals and thugs, and make them our teachers on how we ought to speak, act, and dress. This is not to say that everyone who dresses like a prisoner is in fact a crook (most aren't), but what is the attraction? I don't get it.
I'm sorry. That's just how I percieve it.Gang symbol?
She just got fired from Fox for the comment.
I hope that puts an end to all this nonsense.
I'm sure they were all hip-hop moguls...or terrorists! [/SuspenesfulMusicalCue]
Were they oilco exec's?
Many of the sports hero's and all the rap folks
come from street gangs and still give their little
hand signs at every opportunity. Unfortunately,
many parents allow their kids to set their own
standards. And like you, I don't understand it.
"I have personally exchanged "daps" (a term for the fist bump) with executives (including CEOs) of no less than 3 Fortune 20 companies."
"So?"
How does that disprove that fatally lame corporate Dapper Dan's have assumed black gestures trying hopelessly to be black cool rather than whitey lame?
I bet they wear their baseball caps backwards, too?
Well, I don't think the majority of the kids, or athletes, are actually in gangs. I'll even grant that most of them aren't even criminals. But they do certainly tend to take their cues (on how to dress, act in public, speak) from street culture or prison culture.
I just don't understand why we ought to hold up prison culture as the standard by which we ought to live.
Urban Dictionary:And it's a certain kind of hugging.
Shoulder-to-shoulder only,
with no more/no less than exactly 3 pats on the back,
1. "im not gay" hug
When two men, having a mutual respect for each other, give one another a hug and pat on the back, usually, three times in rapid succession. "pat... pat... pat" which translates to "im... not... gay"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...not+gay%22+hug
The Mechanics of the Man Hug
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/03/07...of-the-man-hug
Try reading things in context. My comments were not to attempt to disprove anything about white people incorporating black pop-culture, but rather someone else's comments that no respectable person ever uses a fist bump.
Reading is fundemental.
Were they oilco exec's?
Some of them, yes!
what up g
Oh no. Now it's spread and made its way into the professional world. Now Big Engineering has gone hip-hop.
i do fist bumps all the time.... I've never given the racial origin or social significance of these actions the amount of thought some of you are.... some of you should talk to your kids though, because they all do it too, and it doesn't have anything to do with being a gangster
I fist bump with men in the office, but when I greet women I usually grind up on their asses a bit with my pelvis. It's all good.
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