black man wears ‘caucasians’ t-shirt to call out racist logos, white tears ensue

Still one of the most clever satirical plays on racist double-standards in professional sports is the subversion of the racist imagery used as mascots by replacing them with white folks instead! The Washington “Redskins”? Nah, how ’bout the Washington Caucasians! A flipping of the script, if you will, to show white folks how it might feel to have their identities treated so flippantly. Only difference being that “Caucasians” isn’t a slur. Nevertheless, white folks found it distasteful to be the butt of the joke. So when Frederick Joseph walked the streets of NYC while wearing the shirt confrontations ensued. “I figured it would catch some by surprise but I didn’t expect people to be as trash as they were,” Joseph tweeted.

What’s the problem, white folks?

The Hypocrisy of Racist Logos:

Last weekend I decided to wear this shirt, I figured it would catch some by surprise but I didn’t expect people to be as trash as they were. pic.twitter.com/DW5n6QEmOl

— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) July 31, 2018

The shirt is a play on the Washington “Redskins” logo to demonstrate how people look wearing apparel with a logo that is blatantly racially charged and disrespectful.

The shirt doesn’t have any rude language or slurs such as “crackers” or “honkies”… but that didn’t matter pic.twitter.com/TrksTIlGYj

— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) July 31, 2018

I left @SXMProgress after just doing an interview with @XorjeO and it was my first time in public with the shirt on.

A white guy walking by mistook the shirt for an actual team shirt and yelled “Go Skins!” I said “nah”, he then saw my shirt and yelled “asshole!” pic.twitter.com/2apsx126YX

— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) July 31, 2018

Next, an older white lady stopped me in the street and said “why would you wear that? It’s disrespectful!”

So I asked her if she would have said the same if I had on the actually team shirt or another team using disrespectful branding.

She said “no, because that’s the logo!” pic.twitter.com/UaLfIZioS5

— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) July 31, 2018