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Why we can't forget the racism of this campaign - (South Carolina waiter called "boy")
cnn ^ | November 16, 2016 | Isaac Bailey

Posted on 11/29/2016 11:53:34 AM PST by re_tail20

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To: re_tail20

Oh for pete’s sake ... Make a movie out of it why dontcha?

Who invents this second-rate cliched crap? If I read this story in an eighth-grade comp class I’d give the writer a D.

“That man called me ‘boy,’” said the lovable, self-effacing Negro waiter. “But I’s no boy. I’s a MAN.”

Gack!


61 posted on 11/29/2016 1:46:34 PM PST by IronJack
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Omg, here we go again. That’s all they can come up with? Puhleeze we (conservatives) have have been called so many names so many times that we’ve lost count. I spit on them for dragging this dead mule out...again.


62 posted on 11/29/2016 1:52:12 PM PST by ssfromla
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To: re_tail20

as it pertains to the birther question....I submit the following:

Barak Obama himself, IMHO contributed to the issue by first refusing to release his college records which alleged he received financial assistance by claiming foreign student status. Second, there was no explanation offered to the absolute fact that Michelle Obama claimed in a speech that “mu husband was born in Kenya”. Third is the fact that his grandmother said he was born in Kenya.
So when one ignores all this, it becomes a farce to expect others to believe one was born in Hawaii with its’ sketchy record keeping.


63 posted on 11/29/2016 2:07:56 PM PST by tenthirteen
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To: re_tail20

Wait, wait! Lemme guess. This is fake news. I’m right, huh.


64 posted on 11/29/2016 2:10:09 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

Yep.

CNN = fake news site

They fabricated this story. Bet on it!!


65 posted on 11/29/2016 2:17:18 PM PST by Conserv
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To: re_tail20

The correct response to someone calling you “boy” is to say:

“Boy, hell! You must call an alligator a lizard!”

...and then you just go on about your business.


66 posted on 11/29/2016 2:21:31 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: re_tail20

More “Fake News” from the radical extreme far-left racialist CNN.


67 posted on 11/29/2016 2:26:37 PM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: re_tail20

BS. More fake news by the fake media.


68 posted on 11/29/2016 2:27:47 PM PST by MNJohnnie (This revolt is not ending, it is merely beginning.- Pat Caddell)
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To: luvbach1

So did Snoopy!

Better not let Haitian-American Pierre Garçon of the REDSKINS know


69 posted on 11/29/2016 2:55:14 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: re_tail20

Oh boy!


70 posted on 11/29/2016 2:57:43 PM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: mbarker12474

Great response to screaming racist


71 posted on 11/29/2016 5:50:25 PM PST by Luigi Vasellini (End the political class.......TERM LIMITS NOW!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: ConservativeWarrior
It takes a special kind of “victim” to project indigence with an outstretched hand.

indigence (noun): A level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking.

Did you perhaps want to write "indignation?"

Yes, and there's no better way to "heal" someone's sense of humiliation (and to salve a Liberal's conscience) than to give him a hefty tip.

Regards,

72 posted on 11/29/2016 7:16:49 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: WashingtonSource
Good grief. What about Germans who called waiters “boy” over since before modern times.

I'm afraid that you're mistaken. From the 1800s till about the 1950s, the proper form of address for a waiter was "Herr Ober" ("Ober" being short for "Oberkellner" = "head waiter" [even if he was only a busboy]).

Waitresses, on the other hand, were addressed as "Fräulein" (= "Miss" [regardless of her true marital status]). To address a waitress as "Gnä' Frau" (= "Gracious Lady") would have been considered condescending and insulting in the extreme. (Older single ladies were actually proud of the fact that they had been able to stand on their own two feet without the help of a husband.)

Sadly, in post-war Germany, such terms of address have died out, and I am sure that I "date" myself when I "accost" a stranger on the street to ask directions and address him as "Mein Herr."

I visited the U.S. 20 years ago, and was shocked when the waiter came to take our order and addressed my wife (!) and me with "Hi, guys!" (I immediately corrected him, of course.)

O tempora, o mores!

Regards,

73 posted on 11/29/2016 7:33:40 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Did you greet people with “Grüß Gott”?


74 posted on 11/29/2016 7:37:38 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius
Did you greet people with “Grüß Gott”?

Still do! Love that old third-person imperative (obsolete long form: "Es grüsse Dich Gott!"). Dislike the more-cosmopolitan "Servus!" (which leaves open whether you are coming or going), though it is actually rather old-fashioned in meaning ("At your service!"); prefer "Zu Diensten!" Like the Latinate "Ade!" (= "farewell"), the pendant to ancient Rome's "Ave!" (= "Hail").

Regards,

75 posted on 11/29/2016 9:06:34 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek
My favorite "Ade" song. Rellstab is the poet.

Schubert: "Abschied"

76 posted on 11/29/2016 10:07:06 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: alexander_busek

Thanks! Certainly “garçon in French is Boy. The point is calling a young man who is a waiter a boy is not some new idea that is irredeemably racist. Certainly in the United States, white waiters and bell hops have been called boy in the past before blacks were hired for these positions. It had nothing to do with race.


77 posted on 11/30/2016 4:59:17 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: alexander_busek

Super helpful!

What have you done to advance our cause today?

Surely nitpicking autocorrect snipes aren’t your bread and butter?h


78 posted on 11/30/2016 12:52:07 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: re_tail20

At the grocery store I was in line when an elderly black gentleman employed by the store was ending his shift. He said to the hispanic younger men, “you boys have a good shift. I’ll see you tomorrow.” He left.

Well, that set off the hispanic men. “Did you hear him call us boys?” I interrupted and told them he was being fatherly and did not intend to insult them. I said that obviously they are men but to an old man like that they are young.


79 posted on 12/05/2016 5:28:49 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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