Questlove and Padma Lakshmi being racist. Blergh.
The Roots is currently on tour in Japan and earlier today, Questlove posted this gem on Instagram:
questlove: Hey @dawnenglehart is it racist for me to write the Sour Tlain? #chipanesedownunder2013
dawnenglehart: Nah you're in The Loots. You're allowed.
dawnenglehart: Arrowed.
padmalakshmi: Hahahaha ha! You ruys clack me lup
Dawn Englehart is his manager and was with him in Japan. I don't understand why he felt the need to publicly post this, but it's nice to know what he really thinks.
I didn't manage to get a screencap, but dawnenglehart later replied to angry comments with: "It's not lacist if it's taloo" and "padmalakshmi and I get a yellow pass anyway" The entire post has been deleted. She has this great example of internalized racism posted on her Instagram, I guess that's where Questlove picked it up.
Questlove also posted a video of a Japanese woman speaking Japanese with the spoken introduction; "Ladies and gentlemen, they are talking in tongues." The post is still up. Update: The video has also been deleted. They're all just going to pretend all these didn't happen??
Man, it's one thing for some ignorant white tween to do something like this but Questlove? Ughhhhhhhh
Source: Questlove's Twitter and Instagram accounts. The train IG post and tweet were deleted, as was the Talks in Tongues video.
Edit: There's another video on Vine because social media is a gift that keeps on giving. Questlove filmed a sleeping Japanese man and titled it "McSnoleArot". Sigh.
Update: HAHA FUCK. Apparently he's been doing this for a while. This tweet is from November 2012, someone posted about Korean food and he replied, "rooks lear good : )"
jesus fuck
My parents have thick polish accents, and whenever I tell a story about them I imitate it b/c everything sounds funnier in my dad's voice. I will say their grammar is pretty on point considering they've lived in the US for almost 30 years.
As someone with an accent I also hate it when Americans are like 'say something in your accent' um... how about we just talk and you hear it anyway? You fucking idiot. /rant
but i like mine in spanish.
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I hate this ONTD philosophy that minorities can't be racist.
I guess this is going to be a post where no one knows what racism is.
White people try to define racism based on their own observations~~
That one black chick comes in and rants about individual racism as if that's a thing (it's not, that's called prejudice)
and some others say this is just joking around~
Let's not.
Making fun of accents is just basic and dumb. rme
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Starting with you.
I hate how racist remarks about Asians go under the radar a lot of the time.
I really didn't expect this from Questlove, who is (usually) smart and likeable :(
i had to roll my eyes at the hypocrisy.
it's easy to say that a minority can't be racist against the dominant party (us-centric definition, sure, but i'm american so i'll go with it), but i DO think that minorities can be racist against other minorities.
i mean to be fair idk if they're the same posters or anything.
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on saturday @ the club this guy started talking to my friend in Japanese, she's KOREAN. omg it was so the worst and sf ignorant and he didnt see what was wrong about it
rihanna, rice cake etc *hint hint*
ahhh I told them it was racist, but they just laugh at me.
I feel like in NZ racism towards Asians is very bad. Because they just seem to be the race everyone is sort of expected to make fun of.
it's really frustrating....
It pisses me off so much.