Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Billy Dee says, "Only you can stop corniness."

27 Jul 2008 01:53 pm

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And now a message from Black America's Spokesman For Life, Billy Dee Williams:

Seriously America, I know we all must live in a world where John Travolta is considered a great dancer, and a 60 year old Rocky can go the distance with Antonio Tarver, but on the real, you've officially gone too far.

Props to Matt for the link.

Comments (9)

I'm pretty sure USA Today has this wrong and that Bush is just comparing their bracelets. What kind of dap involves guiding the other person's hand sideways towards yours?

Too. Many. Snark. Possibilities.

Ahahahahaaaa!

@Riise: I believe this is that rare variant known as "forced dap." As in "come on kid, do this little fist bumpy thing with your President for the camera or mommy + daddy will get a phone wiretap for Christmas. And no one wants that now, do we? No crying either!! Smile!!"

The other possibility is that Bush is trying to figure out what pieces fit together to assemble the bookcase that will get us out of Iraq.

My new cause: Stop white people from saying "fist bump."
That is soooo corny.

I dare a black anchorman to say "pound" or "dap"

My prediction is that that particular gesture has now passed its sell-by date.

I came here certain you'd be mocking this quote from the USA Today article:

"I have not encountered a fist bump and would judge anyone who tried it as a total redneck," says Dr. Grace Keenan, medical director of Nova Medical and Urgent Care Center in Ashburn, Va.

--"redneck"?

http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2008-07-21-fist-bump-handshake_N.htm

he is clearly an idiot.


making a child give him a dap. lol

btw, i put this on my own blog for it's hilarity.

It's going to get worse -- a lot worse. When white people discovered the high five, it didn't take long before we came up with our own really sidesplittingly hilarious variant on it: we'd approach a fellow white person in the high-five position -- and then *miss hands.* Get it? Get it?? Har-har, isn't it cool how we make fun of our uncoolness?

Well, we're going to start doing that with our fists, and unfortunately there's nothing you can do to stop us.

I think W is trying to activate his Wonder Twin powers.

That picture was the final nail in the coffin: The...ahem,"fist bump" has officially jumped the shark.

I like how this is being viewed as some sort of new phenomena, as opposed to something that's been around longer than I can remember - and I grew up in a Colorado mountain town so white, diversity was considered 3-day-old brown snow.

Seriously America; get a clue.

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