Thursday, September 30, 2010

Local Black Man Plays Bass Guitar - Racism?

Corfield with his bass
Local man T. Corfield has been the target of much criticism over his choice of instrument, the bass guitar. Local aboriginal rights activist Tom Brown said in a statement today, 'As a man of Aboriginal and Torres Strait origins, Corfield should be sensitive to issues of stereotypes among his people, by playing bass guitar he is making it easier for white people to brand him with racist stereotypes.'

Local musician Joseph Power defended Corfield's musical preferences saying, 'Why should it matter what instrument he plays? I jam with him sometimes and he doesn't just play bass, he does normal guitar too, was Jimmy Hendrix being racist when he played guitar?'

The issue has sparked a chain of similar events, with people calling out what are now dubbed as 'passive racists' across the town.
In a bid to avoid criticism, local man Liam Breen took up roller skating saying that 'I'm pretty sure this is multicultural,' but many were dissatisfied with his choice claiming that now he was being passively discriminatory against homosexuals.
Breen's defense against these allegations were 'Guys I'm not gay, why does everyone think I'm gay?'

In a survey conducted briefly this morning, a anonymous black man stated that 'Why does anyone care that he [Corfield] plays bass? He's pretty good and that Tom Brown guy is going over the top with this, seriousy he's white, no black people care about passive racism.'

Corfield was unavailable for comment.

12 comments:

  1. Racism is always going to be around as long as there are dumb people in the world. Sadly i think we are a long way off from getting rid of them.

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  2. What now? According to South Park, black people are natural bass guitar players... however, that guy is not a black guy... he's whiter than I am...

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  3. @crunky he's half aboriginal, so black enough

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  4. very interesting, cant wait for more :D

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  5. Doesn't really look that black but yeah like one of the other comments said racism will always be around...

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  6. maybe but cmon who forgotten blues ?

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  7. like sweeeetas said music sees no colour

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  8. wait a min bro but hes white so where's all the racism and tyhe stereotypes

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  9. LOL interesting to say the least

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  10. i dont get whats the problem in first place

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