"Your part of the problem, pushing a narrative that furthers the divide and is not inclusive."
Yesterday it was revealed, here, that surfing and surf culture had, against all odds, reached a heretofore unimaginable level of whiteness with the release of country superstar Luke Bryan’s music video “Waves.”
Per the piece:
Social science has long held, as fact, that surfing and surf culture reached peak whiteness in the early 1980s with no possible, or probable, way to grow any whiter as it shifted from “snow” to “baby powder.” Shot on location in Malibu, (the video) features two young surfers who fall in love after an extreme wipeout. They proceed to play games on the pier, canoodle under the fireworks and eat many tasty treats (all while country superstar Luke Bryan croons a stevia-sweetened tune).
BeachGrit tourists, who swing by now and again, were not pleased.
Michael J. Blue countered, “Geez your just a little racist, get a life.”
Clawdad piled on, “Idiotic article! I wonder how all the beautiful Hawaii, Brazilian, Fijian and the rest of the non white surfing world feel about your stupid article. Your part of the problem, pushing a narrative that furthers the divide and is not inclusive.”
Entirely understandable but…. Luke Bryan is an undeniable magnetic force, his song of love without loss inspirational.
Is it just a little racist to think beautiful Hawaii, Brazilian, Fijian surfers would not agree?
More as the story develops.
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Y’all are such dueche bags. Anything that has a couple of white kids is so offensive. Give me a break. I’m more bothered as to how he falls off and passes out, making surfers look like soft dweebs. Maybe some local should have paddled up and thumped him. Right after they thumped your dumb asses.
Only depends on your personal preferences what they threw you.
Luke Bryan is for boys and girls who think country is drinking beer, wearing toight jeans and going to stagecoach.
My NY Rangers have a stud rookie defenseman in K’Andre Miller and he’s getting plenty of attention around the league.
no.
Exterminate all the Brutes.
Super fucking annoying as someone who’s not white but also not Hawaiian Brazilian or Fijian to keep reading articles like this and others talking about how white surfing seems to be. Who fucking cares when the real plight of the world are Surf Schools (kook generators) that should be BANNED!
As a beautiful Brazilian I am deeply offended by everything and anything the white man says, but I couldn’t be bothered reading the original piece so I’ll just take Clawdad’s word.
Michael j blue and clawdad can go fuck themselves. I thought it was funny. And do they really think a journalist who spent time in the middle east would be a racist
Not nearly enough Asians in the NBA.
What, maybe 2?
Redonkulous lack of equity.
Your use of the word ‘Redonkulous’ is appropriately redonkulous…
asians are shorty…
I write for illiterates!
And I’m sure they don’t know the difference…sadly.
One problem with tourists has always been their insistence on believing their purchases of made-in-China plastic outrages define authentic souvenirs of the local culture.
Solid cut.
Point of personal privilege – fuck those non-gender specific A.k.a. guys.
Please define; “Hawaiian”!? I can’t come to a conclusion about the “inclusive/racist/blah”, until someone tells me who a “Hawaiian” is, was, can be. Please include all pronouns, and effective pidgen level.
How dare we assume Hawaiian identity is a mutually agreed upon identifying blah blah woke catchphrase.. Cunts are so sensitive these days. They all need some false/reals slaps bruz.
But if I get a Kamaʻāina discount from the local plate lunch spot do I count as “Hawaiian”?
Once you move here, you can declare to locals that you’re a local, which automatically tacks on an extra 10 years before any local will talk to you again.
I never declared myself a local so is that why I always ended up talking to the locals?
When the teenagers/20 year olds found out I was from NY the questions were non-stop.
That’s why I always laugh when people say the Mokes don’t like the Haoles. Everyone was pretty nice to me.
Give aloha and you’ll receive aloha, even from those that don’t necessarily want to give it.
Pretty much SOP for traveling anywhere in the world, right?
Definitely!
The cashier at the Aloha General Store in Haleiwa asked me if I was Kamaʻāina.
I smiled for a week after that.
You’ll never be kamaaina, but that’s ok. Just accept it. You can’t change where you were born or who you are.
Such is life…
In today’s wild world
You are what you say you are
Facts seem to come last
No truer words have ever been uttered on this site.
Surely anyone with the last name of Rothman. Just forget that the Hawaiian language does not have Rs or Ts.
Eddie Rothman is from back east somewhere I believe.
He’s a Jew from Philadelphia. As Hawaiian as a pretzel.
Apostrophes, people. There is a vast diference between your and you’re.
“Michael J. Blue countered, “Geez your just a little racist, get a life.”
Clawdad piled on, “Idiotic article! I wonder how all the beautiful Hawaii, Brazilian, Fijian and the rest of the non white surfing world feel about your stupid article. Your part of the problem, pushing a narrative that furthers the divide and is not inclusive.”
I stay true to original text.
Aren’t you supposed at least use (sic) ?
I do believe you are correct. I’ve seen literate article writers doing corrections using the [sic] to correctly re-quote lamebrained “online journalistic” writings.
This is absolutely 100% true.
My article was never even spell checked!
We’re/were. That one shits me big time.
Don’t get me started on the difference between ‘lose’ and ‘loose’.
Your overly fastidious’
Come on, your not billy hunt, your my wife arent’ you? nobodie else kood trigga me so good paleskinLMFAOemoji
She a silly cunt too?
THANK YOU, harrydean, for the ‘apostrophes’ comment. FFS! I was trying to sound out the sentences to see if “your” could have been acceptable and it just was not. It was irking the hell out of me! I’m a grammar Nazi. I don’t care if anyone knows that! Beachtung! Holen Sie sich diese verdammte Grammatik richtig!
played Country backwards he got his girl back young….ditched the longboard and became Alan Sarlo.
That is a very funny comment touché
Is this conversation worth having?
What else we got to do?
Well you could do an article on Joel Tudor’s Instagram post pleading to feature on the Joe Rogan show!
God.. that’s sad AF. Did he really beg to go on and bore Rogan?
Yes he did. But Joe Rogan did ask about him by his first name so he def. knows who he is. Yin and Yang.
A BJJ link no doubt.
Never invite yourself onto another mans podcast
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Sounds like an open diss to Kelly Slater. I guess having a black belt in jiu jitsu could make some titillating’s conversation between the two.
I miss the early days of BeachGrit when I was the only one who yelled out “racist!” At Derek Reilly’s anti Palestinian rants. Come to think of it I was the only commenter at all.
I think you confuse my mostly pro-Zionist stance with being anti-Palestinian.
But did call or text Jared Kushner to offer advice about your fair “Two State Solution?” If he was emailing business school buddies about acquiring Covid PPE surely he would of taken your call in regards to Middle East peace.
As Yeats wrote “How can we know the dancer from the dance”?
Um, well, the dancer
Is the cool motherfucker
Doing the dancing
The dancing is done
By the dancer, for without
Him/Her, dancing’s dead
Well duh, Zionism is anti-palestinian by definition in that its aim is the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine.
Pro-Judaism rather than pro-Zionist sits much better with me in that it’s possible to be Jewish without having a mania about settlements and kicking out the Palestinians.
correct.
You know I love you Derek and your ultra nationalist pride in your homeland. I don’t take it personal at all. Surf world needs you and Chas the whole racket is tired and boring there isn’t a single place else to go.
Head over to LodgeGrit – bask in the good ol days !
I was digging around in 7 year old BG archives the other day and couldn’t believe how many of you have been here since the beginning. Thank you for riding!
Most of them were on Stab back then drooling over board reviews let’s be honest Chas.
That has to be damn near the gayest music video I’ve ever seen.
If the d00d is such a kook as to burn someone on 6″ wave, fall, and get ragdolled, the girl should have let him drown. The world would be a better place.
Gay as in absolutely fabulous?
Or as an insult?
You should put that comment to speed metal. You’ve got something there,…maybe the next clip for (——-)
Be careful. I’ve turned one of Channelbottom’s posts into a hit punk/metal tune.
You’re not allowed to say that sort of thing anymore. You fag
Yeah, I was kinda wondering why he wiped out so bad. Maybe we didn’t see it but she might’ve hit him on the head with her board like some crazy batshit stalker and of course they don’t show that in the video! One can only speculate.
How do they feel about Beach Grit’s patron saint, Bede “The Venerable” Durbo’s, other nickname being the “White Fijian”?
Surfing’s greatest scandal.
Sounds like we need a BG’s top ten list of surfing’s scandals.
I’d like to include ‘The Spartan’ giving himself that name, as a scandal.
I’ve always thought that name is a little racist or at least “problematic”
pfff white lightning