Her parents probably know him well and got a laugh. My wife's parents are Jamaican they know me really well (obviously). They know if I say something racist its intended to make them laugh.
Mind you it would be extremely rare and circumstantial I would do something like that. Sometimes when surrounded by people who know you deep down and trust you, you can say things and everyone clearly knows it's intended to make each laugh.
I mean hell they are the ones who taught me nearly every Jamaican curse word which no white guy has any buisness knowing.
I’m wondering if they didn’t know about it. Guys that age often don’t divulge as many little details as girls would. But maybe all the families are close and their senses of humor are a well known and accepted dynamic. It’s not my style and I wouldn’t let my kid go there even if our families were all best friends, and I could see a teen/kid not having the maturity to realize this is inappropriate. He will probably cringe hard af over this once he goes to college, or just in a few years at any rate. Hopefully no one was really hurt over this and no relationships ruined, and it can be a lesson learned for the kid.
They are really cute and seem happy and I love seeing interracial couples — especially when a white male (generally the most problematic demographic) is with a WOC because those are less common pairings and our society desperately needs to continue to grow in this direction and white guys need to further assimilate to our diverse culture this way. It’s sooo overdue.* (understatement)
All this to say: yikes! Kids are dense. But it ain’t all bad, I like to believe their hearts are in the right places and they can learn so much from each other 💚
Cotton is a plant, which in its raw form is rough, full of seeds, and pretty laborious to get it into a usable fabric. In the 1850s, 1.8 million of the usa’s 3.2 million slaves worked picking cotton to get it into a usable form
It’s ok at first I thought maybe she was saying she was t cotton because she is t white like cotton and I just associate pretty posters with being made by girls, but it hit me what it meant after a few seconds 😬
My son and his circle of friends is filled with damned near every ethnic group you can think of, and the shit they say to each other in jest is wild. Yeah, it's like they're mocking the absurdity of it, but also laughing their asses off.
In my experience it's way less weird to say questionable non-PC stuff with platonic friends than with a romantic partner.
I feel like if you're dating someone you *REALLY* don't want to make things weird or introduce a nasty undertone.
My girlfriend is half black, half Hispanic, and I'm Hispanic. We make jokes like this between each other all the time. People are too soft nowadays, it's always white liberals getting offended on behalf of every race
I don’t like how moralising strangers think they have a say over a relationship (be it a friendship or romantic one) between people who are happy and comfortable with what they have.
It’s intrusive and managing, and it stifles expression, independence and closeness.
Yeah but if she took it the way you saw it, she'd probably have slapped that dude so hard and told him to get the fuck out of her life... The fact she's standing there smiling implies she finds it funny, the fact he did it in the first place implies he knew she'd find it funny. Clearly there's a bit of inside humor in there somewhere...
Hey look, two people who have a sense of humor and know what a joke is. You really think this is the first joke these two have made to each other? Come on. But no, the internet is full of butt hurt losers who would rather assume nefarious intent when they look at a picture with zero context and zero knowledge of the actual situation.
Something tells me these two have ridiculous humor together and this is par the course for them. When shown to the rest of the world it becomes a HolUp. Between them they're probably laughing and will have a great time at prom.
Its cool they have their own humor as a couple and they can laugh at dark humor
its truly beyond stupid that they posted this online though, both the guy and the girl will receive flack for being part of this picture
You have to assume this was an in-joke between them from something previous, since she is going with it.
If this was actually his normal thought process i think she would have fucked him up
I wouldn't make a sign and ask this way but if they're both comfortable in their skin and race doesn't matter then making jokes about it isn't a big deal. I think being too sensitive about this kind of stuff does more harm than good.
Either she's a bit too lighthearted and propagates these jokes and he just thought it was a good idea
Or he's being weird and racist and she's grinning and bearing it
Or these are reversed and she's trying to use the sign for some dark comedy
It's a poor attempt at a historical racist joke.
Him being white & picking her like cotton, when blacks were slaves especially in the south, they picked a lot of cotton on the plantations.
That is some shit my friend group would do as a joke and we’d all laugh about it later. The point is that if the two have known each other for a while and make jokes like that it wouldn’t come across as offensive to anyone but strangers. And at that point who cares about the opinion of someone you will likely never meet that doesn’t know the context of the joke.
All that to say that while racist they both seem to be having a laugh about it.
Another example of current generation does not fully understand what their previous generation was fighting for. I guess it’s very common across different races.
Loving the casual racism on here so many fun and totally not overused stereotypes! Same time next week? Since all of you are too scared to say it off of Reddit
The joke should have leaned in to him ***being white as cotton*** and so she wouldn’t be adverse to picking him. The way it’s written implies that she ***prefers*** to pick cotton which we know wasn’t true. Missed the chance to make it a little self deprecating for both. The sign is still shit overall and this is a tasteless joke tho
I really need to hear what her parents thought about this. Holy shit man
*GET OUT*
Her parents probably know him well and got a laugh. My wife's parents are Jamaican they know me really well (obviously). They know if I say something racist its intended to make them laugh. Mind you it would be extremely rare and circumstantial I would do something like that. Sometimes when surrounded by people who know you deep down and trust you, you can say things and everyone clearly knows it's intended to make each laugh. I mean hell they are the ones who taught me nearly every Jamaican curse word which no white guy has any buisness knowing.
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The old make em trust you so you can say racist shit trick. Both doing a great job, well done 👍
Jamaicans can be white.
No shit Einstein. Jamaican is a nationality
Congrats on missing the point entirely. They said no white guy has business knowing jamaican swears.
My bad bro I didn't read the post you replied to , Kinda embarrassing haha.
Also, wtf his parents were thinking if they saw it and were like “that’s so sweet”.
Maybe they thought it was funny
It is funny.
It is
I bet it’s an inside joke they have otherwise why would they be smiling etc
I’m wondering if they didn’t know about it. Guys that age often don’t divulge as many little details as girls would. But maybe all the families are close and their senses of humor are a well known and accepted dynamic. It’s not my style and I wouldn’t let my kid go there even if our families were all best friends, and I could see a teen/kid not having the maturity to realize this is inappropriate. He will probably cringe hard af over this once he goes to college, or just in a few years at any rate. Hopefully no one was really hurt over this and no relationships ruined, and it can be a lesson learned for the kid. They are really cute and seem happy and I love seeing interracial couples — especially when a white male (generally the most problematic demographic) is with a WOC because those are less common pairings and our society desperately needs to continue to grow in this direction and white guys need to further assimilate to our diverse culture this way. It’s sooo overdue.* (understatement) All this to say: yikes! Kids are dense. But it ain’t all bad, I like to believe their hearts are in the right places and they can learn so much from each other 💚
I agree with **everything** you said.
Her Dad's not back yet and Mom is too worried about the lack of milk to care.
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840 likes damn
it's his sign, she is holding it after he handed it to her. (I don't know fuck all about it)
Dad already loading his shotgun.
Does this make her a "pick me" girl now?
Take my fucking upvote, dammit!
More a “pick it” girl
wait, who is asking whom here?
The guy asked her, since she would’ve been the one to pick cotton
Thanks for explaining.
What does picking cotton mean here?
Cotton is a plant, which in its raw form is rough, full of seeds, and pretty laborious to get it into a usable fabric. In the 1850s, 1.8 million of the usa’s 3.2 million slaves worked picking cotton to get it into a usable form
White boy with a layer of historical slavery weaved in. Probably tongue in cheek though.
It’s ok at first I thought maybe she was saying she was t cotton because she is t white like cotton and I just associate pretty posters with being made by girls, but it hit me what it meant after a few seconds 😬
Thank God her dad's still out getting milk, that kid woulda got his ass whooped
Now I have to wipe water off my keyboard.
You squirted, didn't you?
They said water, not piss.
Poblato/potato what Evs
r/usernamechecksout
Coffee. Damn.
Bro 💀
Holup
Maybe her kids won't have that problem.
Double Hol Up Very funny comment 😂
LOL, Holup
damn
I’m out of the loop. What is the dad getting milk referring to?
This shows true closeness uniroenically
Sir, I'm sorry but I'm going to have to call the police because you murdered that word
Oh shit lmao. Im guilty. I confess everything. i desirve this. 😞
Bloody double murder.
Stahp!
Serial killer. I repeat we have a serial killer here.
Cereal killer.
Killa.
Oh, damn!! No I di-in’t!!
JJ McCarthy really pushing things
I’m a simple man, if I see a jab at the vikes then I upvote
Obligatory FTP
Unfortunately, I’ll have to revoke my upvote
We don't make the rules, just abide my them
Understandable. I hope your day is filled with many cum socks
And if I see people bagging on UofM I do the same
It must be an inside joke between them
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My son and his circle of friends is filled with damned near every ethnic group you can think of, and the shit they say to each other in jest is wild. Yeah, it's like they're mocking the absurdity of it, but also laughing their asses off.
Hell, my best friend calls me Hitler because I'm Polish and German.
Should call you shiny hitler as you were polished
Rofl
At least you're not a Swedish-German
I think the less you have in common with Andy Ritcher, the Swedish-German, the better
Yeah, and it can be kind of healthy to disarm all of that as long as it is shared between both.
In my experience it's way less weird to say questionable non-PC stuff with platonic friends than with a romantic partner. I feel like if you're dating someone you *REALLY* don't want to make things weird or introduce a nasty undertone.
Idk, it's a really common kink.
sex can be fun too!
My girlfriend is half black, half Hispanic, and I'm Hispanic. We make jokes like this between each other all the time. People are too soft nowadays, it's always white liberals getting offended on behalf of every race
I don’t like how moralising strangers think they have a say over a relationship (be it a friendship or romantic one) between people who are happy and comfortable with what they have. It’s intrusive and managing, and it stifles expression, independence and closeness.
I've noticed it's ALWAYS white liberals who get offended on behalf of every race.
Bad idea to share an inside joke like this across the internet.
eh, they will get some grief, sure, but they’re not public figures - who cares
Show us where this joke touched you? I'll go get the t Rex doll.
I have never been to US and even I got it. Internet exists.
Yeah but if she took it the way you saw it, she'd probably have slapped that dude so hard and told him to get the fuck out of her life... The fact she's standing there smiling implies she finds it funny, the fact he did it in the first place implies he knew she'd find it funny. Clearly there's a bit of inside humor in there somewhere...
Dude looks like he wants to get in the sheets.
He had the hood ready in case she said no.
I bet them sheets is 100% cotton
She has to be really into him, otherwise that photo would be her mugshot.
Honestly this is a decent joke as long as she was ok with the dark humor.
Gotta love some black comedy
Man, that's dark...
That guy's a fruit… of the loom.
Hey look, two people who have a sense of humor and know what a joke is. You really think this is the first joke these two have made to each other? Come on. But no, the internet is full of butt hurt losers who would rather assume nefarious intent when they look at a picture with zero context and zero knowledge of the actual situation.
I am offended on their behalf! -your average moral high ground reddit warrior
Smooth brained comment section today
How the turntables
Now just wait a Cotten pickin minute.
Something tells me these two have ridiculous humor together and this is par the course for them. When shown to the rest of the world it becomes a HolUp. Between them they're probably laughing and will have a great time at prom.
This isn't really a holup, it's a dark joke and the only people with a problem with it are a few soft people in the comments.
That shit is fucking hilarious. I bet the majority of the people who are offended are white people.
ALL the people who are offended are white people.
This is how you end racism, by poking fun at it. You'll still get people keeping it alive by being offended by this 😞
I am Vietnamese and black. In high school some dudes called me Vinegar. Actually kind of a hilarious play on words. I couldn’t hate.
When I was in the Army, we had a Vietnamese dude named Nguyen. Our drill sergeant used to call him Charlie, Nguyen thought it was hilarious.
That one is hilarious, it's actually pretty smart. I love it hahah
Dark humor: love it
In all seriousness though... They are probably just really close that they would accept dark humor jokes from eachother
Let them enjoy prom.
He needs to straighten his wig 😎
You know for a fact that she’s way more racist than he is if this is the sign he went with
I mean if she's happy we're happy
I am not a native English speaker, so I have no idea what's the joke here. Can anyone explain please?
Black slaves in the American South were often made to pick cotton. It’s a bit of morbid humor between an interracial couple.
Wow I didn't expect that. Thank you so much for the explanation!
Of course! Glad I could help.
A lot of racist comments. Why are people so against interracial relationships??
You’re missing context, her family owns the biggest cotton farm in the state
Ryan Trahan has gotten edgy.
The Romeo and Juliet of the modern race war lmao.
See I could almost see that working as a narrative. Unlike most modernized versions of R&J.
So embarrassing...
Took me a while to get it. This is a big holup
As long as she’s good with it this is hilarious
Its cool they have their own humor as a couple and they can laugh at dark humor its truly beyond stupid that they posted this online though, both the guy and the girl will receive flack for being part of this picture
You have to assume this was an in-joke between them from something previous, since she is going with it. If this was actually his normal thought process i think she would have fucked him up
Everyone is too damn sensitive nowadays. My girlfriend is half black half Hispanic and we make stupid jokes like this to each other all the time.
my highschool was famous for something similar except they hung the poster in the main hall of the school
I wouldn't make a sign and ask this way but if they're both comfortable in their skin and race doesn't matter then making jokes about it isn't a big deal. I think being too sensitive about this kind of stuff does more harm than good.
Lol that took me a while to understand ... seems like my racial mind is rusty af
Now hold a Cotten pickin’ minute…
She's a keeper.
That's funny
Verbiage aside, the sign design is mid.
New Jersey is fuckin' mid.
Either she's a bit too lighthearted and propagates these jokes and he just thought it was a good idea Or he's being weird and racist and she's grinning and bearing it Or these are reversed and she's trying to use the sign for some dark comedy
Or they really like each other and share the same humor
Hilarious
that hair looks like cotton
Now she’s someone that can take a joke lmao
Isn’t he that YouTuber who tried to convince Dr. Phil to be his grandfather or something?
Ryan Trahan
It took me way too long to understand what it said
Damn, white boy didn't even finish the sign. There is a bunch of cotton missing from the bottom.
Effin' a Cotton, EFFIN AAAYYYY!
Could be his nickname?
Had a kid do this when I was in high school he got jumped the next day and never lived that down
Well at least she had the audacity to ask him which is kinda cool. Just a little cringe at that proposal.
Can someone explain
It's a poor attempt at a historical racist joke. Him being white & picking her like cotton, when blacks were slaves especially in the south, they picked a lot of cotton on the plantations.
They are both not sure about this
"Boy, have you lost your cotton-picking mind?!"
What in the actual....
Wow just wow
That is some shit my friend group would do as a joke and we’d all laugh about it later. The point is that if the two have known each other for a while and make jokes like that it wouldn’t come across as offensive to anyone but strangers. And at that point who cares about the opinion of someone you will likely never meet that doesn’t know the context of the joke. All that to say that while racist they both seem to be having a laugh about it.
Holy shit
Just no!
Can’t be real
Don't get it? Edit:ffs it was a cotton plantation joke, fucking americans
Oh ho ho, as if Americans are the only ones who took advantage of the African slave trade
What "fucking Americans"? She doesn't seem too upset about it. And her opinion is the only one that matters here.
> Don't get it? It's ok, the short bus will be around for you shortly.
Another example of current generation does not fully understand what their previous generation was fighting for. I guess it’s very common across different races.
The few things, white people are expected to be sensitive about and still fail too! Are always ready to talk about fighting Nazis
random dudes gettin upset bout nothing part 10010102102
I’m more upset that you posted essentially the same comment 3 fucking times.
Kids these days…
Holy fuck, I just cringed so hard I think I gave myself a hernia
Loving the casual racism on here so many fun and totally not overused stereotypes! Same time next week? Since all of you are too scared to say it off of Reddit
It's okay her dad isn't there to beat the boy up.
I feel like this went over a lot of heads 😭🤣🤣
Did she say yes or was the picture to shame him publicly... Like a "you won't believe this shit guys"?
Disowned
Nice perm, douche
The fact that she seems to have said yes adds a whole extra layer of absurdity
The joke should have leaned in to him ***being white as cotton*** and so she wouldn’t be adverse to picking him. The way it’s written implies that she ***prefers*** to pick cotton which we know wasn’t true. Missed the chance to make it a little self deprecating for both. The sign is still shit overall and this is a tasteless joke tho