Comments on: [Stuff] Who Says? (Video) http://dcentric.wamu.org/2012/01/stuff-who-says-video/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://dcentric.wamu.org/2012/01/stuff-who-says-video/#comment-1177 Anonymous Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:57:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=13541#comment-1177 Thanks for clarifying and for your comment. Thanks for clarifying and for your comment.

]]> By: Sonya P. Collins http://dcentric.wamu.org/2012/01/stuff-who-says-video/#comment-1176 Sonya P. Collins Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:59:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=13541#comment-1176 I kept the racial element out of my tweet because I know that DC transplants are inclusive of people of varying races and ethnicities. As for a video about "Native Washingtonians", I see how this is looked at as code word for "black Washingtonian" considering at one point the racial demographic of DC was largely black. That's ok with me. For me to understand and find humor in the video, I had to be quite familiar with the experience of transplants, especially having been one in other cities and hanging around both a native and non-native population. However, growing up in and around DC, I know many of my peers just wouldn't get it because that's not their life.  Right before I watched the "Shit DC Says" video, I also watched the "Shit New Yorkers Say" video. I also thought this was funny but realized this video, too, was filmed from the perspective of a not-so-native New Yorker (I'm an NY transplant as well). Perhaps the "Shit Native City Dwellers Say" meme hasn't caught on yet but each city has its own set of stereotypes that would be found humorous as well. I kept the racial element out of my tweet because I know that DC transplants are inclusive of people of varying races and ethnicities. As for a video about “Native Washingtonians”, I see how this is looked at as code word for “black Washingtonian” considering at one point the racial demographic of DC was largely black. That’s ok with me. For me to understand and find humor in the video, I had to be quite familiar with the experience of transplants, especially having been one in other cities and hanging around both a native and non-native population. However, growing up in and around DC, I know many of my peers just wouldn’t get it because that’s not their life. 

Right before I watched the “Shit DC Says” video, I also watched the “Shit New Yorkers Say” video. I also thought this was funny but realized this video, too, was filmed from the perspective of a not-so-native New Yorker (I’m an NY transplant as well). Perhaps the “Shit Native City Dwellers Say” meme hasn’t caught on yet but each city has its own set of stereotypes that would be found humorous as well.

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