Is it racist to call them ‘jimmies’?

Boston Globe ^ | June 21, 2015 | Sara Morrison

[ConservativeStatement]

Summer is here, which means reviving the contentious debate over whether or not a favorite ice cream topping’s name has racist origins.

“I’ve heard them called jimmies ... It’s after Jim Crow,” said Carly Fishkin, 25, who grew up in Wellesley and prefers to call them sprinkles. Her nearby friend, Izak Shapiro, also 25, agreed.

They are two of many who have heard that the word jimmies has deeply racist connotations.

[ConservativeStatement]

The term "colored sprinkles" is next.

[headstamp 2]

People are really turning into mental cases.

[NowApproachingMidnight]

Jimmy crack corn, and I don’t care!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Everything is racist.

Deal with it.

[Leaning Right]

Is it racist? Of course it is. The answer to every “Is it racist?” question, on any topic, is “yes”.

This, by the way, is how nations spin apart.

[SolidRedState]

I call BS. 25 years old hasn’t heard anything but GMC trucks called “jimmies”.

Last week we were visiting our son and we spent a lot of time on his patio enjoying the weather in his neck of the woods. He called us his “porch monkeys”.

[Hugin]

Are Jimmies Racist?

Claim: Jimmies, the sprinkles used on confections, are so named as a reference to Jim Crow.

PROBABLY FALSE

http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/jimmies.asp

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Now we’re complaining about what some people call sprinkles? What’s wrong with these people?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Just shoot me now.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Just wait until a ‘99’ ice cream cone in the UK looks like.

[headstamp 2]

“I’ve heard them called jimmies ... It’s after Jim Crow,” said Carly Fishkin, 25, who grew up in Wellesley and prefers to call them sprinkles. Her nearby friend, Izak Shapiro, also 25, agreed.”

So in other words they’re both stupid.

[bicyclerepair]

DeToqueville was a visionary.

[ladyjane]

These kids are really that stupid?

[Lurker]

In the meantime ISIS locked alleged spies in a cave and drowned them in a swimming pool.

Hillary was SOS for 6 years while this cancer grew.

Stay focused people.

[ConservativeStatement]

Must be the "White Privilege" we hear the Dems echo.

The median income for a household was $159,167, and the median income for a family was $186,518.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellesley,_Massachusetts

[Smokin' Joe]

And here I thought a 'jimmy' was a burglar tool. Silly me. I know a few guys named James who won't be any too happy about being suddenly endowed with extreme tans, by virtue of their nicknames, but the, I have known a Sambo or two, too (both white).

Is there any other word in the English Language these bungholes want banned?

Because my reaction to them is to stuff it where the sun doesn't shine, pack the opening with sand, and sit on it and rotate.

This current crop of semantic whiners hasn't built jack **** (how do they think Jack feels about that affiliation), so they are welcome to stop tearing it down and/or leave and go elsewhere where they can, en masse, create the world they seem to think they want to live in.

They'll deserve it.

[OldSmaj]

What’s wrong with these people?

"these people"?

Really?

"these people"?

That's racist!!!!

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(Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)

[kiryandil]

Ice cream has deeply racist overtones.

And potatoes.

As a matter of fact, any random word taken out of an English dictionary has deeply racist overtones.

Because the TeeVee and the noozpaperz say so...

[edpc]

Agreed. We’ve crossed into the truly absurd.

[BenLurkin]

Never heard of Jimmies