Mario Text

This something like the text I received a few months ago from one of my friends. In the text Mario was running after Yoshi who was being ridden by a black man. At the top of the screen were the words "Nigga stole my Yoshi."

I choose to write about this peace because at the time I received this text I really didn't think much about it, I saw it laughed a bit, and went on with my day. Then while watching the video "Ethnic Notions" in class I began to think about it again, about how it fit right in with what I was seeing on the screen.

This is also how it fits in with course material, the man in the text was much like what was being said in the film. After emancipation blacks were made into brutal savages that in the movie "Birth of a Nation" were almost wolf-man like, they chased a young white woman off a cliff. This text was classic brutal blacks stealing because blacks are unable to survive in civilized society.

This text was sent to me from a very good friend of mine who I know never meant to hurt anyone, and I think that's part of the problem with text such as these they seem harmless, funny, "it's a cartoon, who could it hurt." The thing that surprised me most about this text came when I was looking for some kind of screen shot of it. I put the words "nigga stole my yoshi" into google and was give thousands of matches, several being videos. One such video featured two young black men one cashing the other yelling "that nigger stole my yoshi" this reminded me of the black men that preformed in black-face just so that they could be on stage.