NAACP: "You Mad, Bro?" Meme is Racist

Please tell me there are more important things in this world than stamping out humorous internet memes.

According to the NAACP, the wide-ranging internet meme "You mad, bro?" is racist. The phrase, which is often used when someone loses a game or does something embarrassing, is coming under fire from the association because of a high school banner raised during a football game in Ohio.

The banner in question

Rodderick Coffee, president of a local chapter of the NAACP, stated, “At the conclusion of the game, some of their students and parents put up a sign that we believe was racial intimidation, ethnic intimidation."

Of course, anyone who has ever been on the internet before knows that the phrase is not racist. In fact, even if you've never heard of the meme, chances are that you did not instantly think, "that's racist!" This is most likely because it is not racist.

Other variations of the meme read, "u mad, bro" or "u jelly (instead of "jealous")," accompanied by a smiling doodle:

In fact, if you Google "u mad, bro" under images, the first picture that  pops up is a picture of Jesus giving the middle finger.  And yet, I do not believe the meme is anti-Christian.  It's anti-nothing.  It's just used to get the goat of people who have just "failed."

In the end, the evidence is exceedingly on the side of "not racist whatsoever."  In fact, discussing an innocuous term such as this is almost the epitome of racial over-sensitivity and racial paranoia.  Of course, I'm not saying there is no racism in the United States, but the phrase "you mad, bro?"  Seriously?  No, it's not racist.

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HT WZ