Diversity at The Crapstone

[Kaos]

I am not covering for anyone. Pick and chose your battles man. First, this picture isn't definitive in my opinion. Dude really could have light colored hands. Second, what does it matter. What if they lightened the picture up or even substituted the black guys head on after the fact? Who cares? This is not the same as buying football players cars. This doesn't break any rules. It doesn't even make them look bad.

However, it does make Auburn fans look like a bunch of richards by pointing shoot like this out IF the picture is legit. It's like the boy who cried wolf. If we bitch about absolutely everything, no one is going to hear anything...

Jesus.  Get the bee out of your butt.  It's not about you defending it.

I'm talking about places like al.com defending it as legit without question.  It's about the experienced PHOTOGRAPHER who made the initial claim being harassed into retracting it.  It's about that same photographer who initially questioned the photo being a graduate of UA and having sideline access to photograph football games -- unless he takes it back and says he was wrong. 

It's about the guy in the picture being (supposedly) a junior at Alabama.  Wait... he graduated what?

It's about the pattern of deceit.  It's about anything they say being taken at absolute face value without question. 

When somebody produces an unretouched photo of a two-colored man, then ok. 

But unless it's one of these guys, I don't think that's gonna happen. 



It's about accountability.  If they'd just admitted it nobody would care. Other colleges have shopped black people into their pictures to create a false sense of diversity.  Admit it, people laugh and move on. But no. Too arrogant to do that.  Have to stick to the lie.

[Vandy Vol]

For those of you who avoid black people like the plague, their palms are white.  The top of the guy's left hand is clearly darker than the palm of his right hand.

If it is photoshopped, then it's a white dude with unevenly toned hands.  More than likely, it's a black dude in odd lighting.

[Kaos]

For those of you who avoid black people like the plague, their palms are white.  The top of the guy's left hand is clearly darker than the palm of his right hand.

If it is photoshopped, then it's a white dude with unevenly toned hands.  More than likely, it's a black dude in odd lighting.

When you're a photography expert I'll take your word for it. 

The top of his hand is lighter than the white guy's hand that's in the same vicinity.  That's not "lighting" Mr. Bryant.

[Pell City Tiger]

For those of you who avoid black people like the plague, their palms are white.  The top of the guy's left hand is clearly darker than the palm of his right hand.

If it is photoshopped, then it's a white dude with unevenly toned hands.  More than likely, it's a black dude in odd lighting.

Horse feathers! The dude those hands belong to is whiter than the guest list at a David Duke BBQ party.

[Vandy Vol]

When you're a photography expert I'll take your word for it. 

The top of his hand is lighter than the white guy's hand that's in the same vicinity.  That's not "lighting" Mr. Bryant.

Yes, now I see the photographer certification hanging up in your office...my bad.


The photo is a still from commercials that Alabama recently shot.  There is no reason for them to photoshop a still from a commercial so that a white guy is replaced with a black guy; they could have just hired a black guy to be in the commercial.  The guy in question is the fourth from the left in this commercial at about 0:21:




At about 0:09 - 0:10 in this commercial, the camera begins panning to the right and almost shows the group of graduates in the same position of the still:

[Vandy Vol]

And, just in case anyone's panties are still in a wad, you can always use this:

http://29a.ch/sandbox/2012/imageerrorlevelanalysis/


If none of the above can produce even a shadow of doubt in your mind, then rabble on.

[The Prowler]

It's amazing the lengths that uat will go to, to show how diverse they are...they even photoshopped the videos, damn they good.

[Vandy Vol]

It's amazing the lengths that uat will go to, to show how diverse they are...they even photoshopped the videos, damn they good.

Well, let's be fair here...they hired someone else to photoshop the videos for them.  Bammers are too stupid to do such a thing by themselves.

[The Prowler]

Well, let's be fair here...they hired someone else to photoshop the videos for them.  Bammers are too stupid to do such a thing by themselves.

They've already disassociated themselves from said person.

[Kaos]

And, just in case anyone's panties are still in a wad, you can always use this:

http://29a.ch/sandbox/2012/imageerrorlevelanalysis/


If none of the above can produce even a shadow of doubt in your mind, then rabble on.

Yeah.  That's so, so accurate.  I tried a few pictures GF did.  They came up as more realistic than the Bama one.  And they were of people you know posed as Jesus, Terry Bowden and others. 

The only shadow here is the shadow that apparently fell across that white guy's face and turned him black.

[WiregrassTiger]

I know a few black people. I think this guy is black. Maybe we should just come out and ask him. "Hey man, are you black or white?"

But, thinking more deeper about it, if they did in fact photo shop this, why would they draw the red circles around him? That only seems to draw attention to said photo shopping.

[Kaos]

Yes, now I see the photographer certification hanging up in your office...my bad.


The photo is a still from commercials that Alabama recently shot.  There is no reason for them to photoshop a still from a commercial so that a white guy is replaced with a black guy; they could have just hired a black guy to be in the commercial.  The guy in question is the fourth from the left in this commercial at about 0:21:

At about 0:09 - 0:10 in this commercial, the camera begins panning to the right and almost shows the group of graduates in the same position of the still:

If you could see my office, you'd see one.  Been doing that as a hobby for more years than you've been alive.

Is it the same guy wearing #8 at :17?  Cause his hands aren't white.  He's not multi-shaded.

And there's no correlation between the photoshopped picture and the :09 mark of video #2 you posted. 

[Vandy Vol]

Yeah.  That's so, so accurate.  I tried a few pictures GF did.  They came up as more realistic than the Bama one.  And they were of people you know posed as Jesus, Terry Bowden and others.

Then obviously you didn't edumucate yourself on how to interpret the results.

Significant white and lighter sections indicate photoshopping occurred:

[Vandy Vol]

If you could see my office, you'd see one.  Been doing that as a hobby for more years than you've been alive.

I'm sure photoshop and digital photography have been around for all of those years as well, and that your nifty certificate has a specialization in those areas.

[Kaos]

I'm sure photoshop and digital photography have been around for all of those years as well, and that your nifty certificate has a specialization in those areas.

More so than yours.  Which is non-existent.  Started with Photoshop 1. 

You keep making my point for me.  The one you showed (not the one I used) shows as more accurate than the crimpson one.  Thus the point.  You can twerk the dials all you want. 

[Vandy Vol]

You keep making my point for me.  The one you showed (not the one I used) shows as more accurate than the crimpson one.  Thus the point.  You can twerk the dials all you want.

Umm...

[Kaos]

Umm...

You clearly don't know WTF you're looking at. 

[Vandy Vol]

I see the "rabble on" selection has been made.  Carry on.

[Buzz Killington]

Then obviously you didn't edumucate yourself on how to interpret the results.

Significant white and lighter sections indicate photoshopping occurred:

Praise white Jesus!

[The Prowler]

Umm...

I thought uat said that the picture wasn't alerted and is shown as is...so why did uat photoshop the (As) on the gowns?