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    'You mad bro?' meme stirs racial tension at Ohio football game

    By Andrew Couts | Digital Trends – Mon, Sep 5, 2011

    Internet humor crossed over into the realm of the real world, and immediately started causing trouble this weekend, after a group of high schoolers held up a giant sign reading “You mad bro?” during a football game in Painesville, Ohio, on Friday night.

    For the uninitiated, the phrase “you mad bro?” is a meme used primarily to incite anger in someone who’s already red in the face. It’s a classic troll tactic that’s been around for ages, at least online.

    According to Fox 8 News, a group of students “and parents” from Kirtland High School held up a large sign decorated, with the words “You mad bro?,” which was directed at the opposing team, Painesville Harvey, who, of course, had just lost the game. Because the sign said “bro,” and because the majority of the Painesville Harvey players are black, some believed the sign was a racist statement.

    “At the conclusion of the game, some of their students and parents put up a sign that we believe was racial intimidation, ethnic intimidation,” said Roderick Coffee, president of the local NAACP chapter, who also attended the game.

    The Kirkland High School principal even said that the school plans to conduct a thorough investigation into whether the sign had “mal-intent” toward the Painesville Harvey players.

    Of course, anyone who’s spent much time commenting on any number of websites knows that the “You mad bro?” meme, or any of its variations, has nothing to do with race, whatsoever. Is it insensitive and unsportsmanlike? Absolutely. Trolls are, by their very nature, insensitive. That’s what makes them trolls, online or off. Should there be an investigation? Sure — especially since it’s likely to end with stuffy school administrators having to sift through the hilarious filth of 4chan, which would make this whole saga possibly the greatest troll ever concocted.

    Watch a report about the incident:

    [via Reddit]

     
     
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    1,269 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      hey Stiv, remember the 8 wisconsin hunters who talked sh8t to an Hmong immigrant, those 6 corpses in Wisconsin who got killed by Hmong hunter, he shot everyone one of them in the head multiple times, simply Awesome! You white devil talk the talk when confronted with real competitor, you get slaughtered like sheeps. too bad he didn't kill all 8 of them white crackers. LMFAO!!!
    • GIGO
      GIGO  •  8 mths ago
      How do you like your coffe?! I take mine... plain.
    • Obama the job destroyer
      Obama the job destroyer  •  8 mths ago
      BRO BRO BRO It's all I have to say.
    • RodneyL
      RodneyL  •  8 mths ago
      Wonderful - now we'll have Jesse (never had a job) Jackson, Al #$%$ Sharpton and a bus load of NAACP zealots wanting the score reversed for "discrimination" and have the marxist ACLU file a lawsuit against the fans, the school and the opposing players - get a fu_king grip.
    • Rocka fella
      Rocka fella  •  8 mths ago
      This is nothing. Black people and white people say the word "cool" differently--generally but the word isn't associated with either black or white nor is bro (brah).
    • Cpl. Smitty. U.S.M.C.
      Cpl. Smitty. U.S.M.C.  •  8 mths ago
      At least it didn't sat " yoo mat brutha?" lol.
    • Armus
      Armus  •  8 mths ago
      If "bro" is an African-American only phrase, then what does it say about the status of education for that community? Why can't all people learn how to speak correctly? As for the high school, it was in bad taste to taunt the loosing school but their day will come.
    • tolerant
      tolerant  •  8 mths ago
      Speaking as an afro-latina . . . . How the fuck is this racist?!?!?!? i mean come on.
    • Jordan
      Jordan  •  8 mths ago
      U MAD jelli
    • codyl
      codyl  •  8 mths ago
      umad
    • Biggus
      Biggus  •  8 mths ago
      Your chocolate.
    • S
      S  •  8 mths ago
      WORD.......
    • Michael H
      Michael H  •  8 mths ago
      you mad bro?
      • Pat
        Pat 8 mths ago
        omfg racist!!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      I guess fron now on when black boys lose to all White football team they will consider it as being racist and ethnic intimidation. Well, at least it will keep Rev. Sharpton busy!!!
    • Bill Clay
      Bill Clay  •  8 mths ago
      Should have brought a sign that says "All your base are belong to us" instead
    • Ed B
      Ed B  •  8 mths ago
      Alwys those that have to play the race card to stir things up. Some of these people need to get a life. They are more like cry babiies.
    • blubuhda
      blubuhda  •  8 mths ago
      Trolls are cowardly little creatures, That use the internet to do things in cyber time they would never dare do in real time
      • QQ
        QQ 8 mths ago
        Except that they were, in fact, doing it in real time, in person.
      • Myself
        Myself 8 mths ago
        lmfao
      • Chris
        Chris 8 mths ago
        Herp de derp.
    • Jay
      Jay  •  8 mths ago
      As a recall in that famous Camron and Bill O Reilly video he said "You mad, you mad!" I dont ever remember hearing in bro in there. In fact I dont know any black people that use the word bro. Having trouble figuring out how this is racist. Now if it said You mad Boy. Then I'd understand
    • Jay
      Jay  •  8 mths ago
      Its getting just plain getting ridculous now.
    • Lynn
      Lynn  •  8 mths ago
      Don't white people, especially teens, call themselves "bro"? Now if the sign read "You mad nigga?" I would understand the insult and offense, but this is nonsense.
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