Posted on 04/20/2024 12:50:45 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
This slope-eyed chick is inscrutable, like all Orientals.
that i didn’t know and I had field mess duty @ Stumps. Thanks.
when a word has 2 meanings and one is perceived as bad or is close to a prohibited word (niggardly), one has to prepare for slings and arrows...
well, brother, we used them in SouthEast Asia, and afterward.
My grandmother told me all about the Cakewalk and had sheet music that I now own, with photos of some of the famous black dancers on the covers.
The buying a box ( either a lunch or dinner ), at a church social, without knowing anything at all about who made it, was a thing in WHITE RURAL CHURCHES and it is even written about in the novel and in the two movies made from the book, "SO BIG", by Edna Ferber.
The man ONLY got to find out who had made the box, once he had bought it and then had to eat the dinner with that woman and IF there was a dance afterwards, dance the first dance with her.
It was a way for a church to make money AND try to get the single women married.
It had NOTHING at all to do with the CAKEWALK, which I described earlier.
OTOH...I don't know WHY nor HOW it later became a term for something done easily, since those dances were innovative, distinct, and made up by each couple as their signature routines.
Cakewalk is a kind of dance/dance contest, with the prize being a CAKE; though yes, it WAS a "black" thing; whites didn't enter these contests.
I’m going out tonight with friends to watch boxing and drink beer. It will be my goal to use all of the words listed in the story. Preferably within the first five minutes. My friends won’t be upset, triggered, or curl into the fetal position. We’re adult men. At some point someone may make a joke about my ancestral heritage, I will respond with an even more cruel comeback. We’re bigger than words.
As a kid, in the neighborhood I grew up we frequently made jokes about each others heritage, skin tone, anything else to make a joke or have some fun. No one really cared. If I was called a whop, a spaghetti bender, questioned if I had mob ties, etc. I return by asking if his Irish dad was still drunk from this morning. Another might ask someone if Father’s Day was confusing. He might reply with asking if his family found it hard to swim across the Rio Grande to get here. We didn’t plan it this way, but our differences were really a nonissue. We just didn’t care, we were friends. Played ball together. Today, everyone is hypersensitive about everything… if I point out a fact (crime rates, whatever) or make a joke I’m likely to lose a job or be punished for wrongspeak. And if we’re very honest with each other (iron sharpens iron) few seem capable to handle it. It’s pathetic.
Only here 13 years and believes we should change the language. Spit. I guarantee this idiot used Google to write this article. She sought out to be a pain in the butt.
the results of ritalin and participation trophies on full display...
I won three cakes one year at the church fair.
I went to high school with a guy surnamed Wang. He used to say that it was actually pronounced more like Wong.
So, another feller who was a bit of a jokester stated that, “if Wang is Wong then Wong must be wight.”
In the case of this article, Wang is just Wong about everything.
“99% of the people were not born or grew up in any age when the terms first came into use”
Not relevant. See negro demands for reparations from the same 99%. You still owes them.
Thanks. Maybe the term got confused with “A walk in the park.”
This monumentally stupid statement shows the so-called "journalists" have no idea what their damn jobs are supposed to be anymore.
The word was originally not derogatory but giving respect to people who had little or nothing still working hard to do their job right and to dress in the then modern style.Recognition of this cultural reality developed over wide usage to a supposedly derogatory meaning. Odd how the meaning gets twisted and idiots like this writer— never understand it. Note she says nothing about Asian offensive terms.
For example— the Classic Vaudeville era stage tune, performed by blackface (jewish) theatrical people and also by highly talented black performers. It’s also a great song with a good bit of real affection by the authors. If any on FR are offended then learn the origin of the tune— and the actual intent of the song for social awareness. Just as Stephen Foster did (and Pittsburgh removed his memorial Statue— because it featured a black person at his side!!!):
“Shine” with stage intro included- researched and performed by the great Ry Cooder on his tribute album “Jazz” with the Great Lionel Hampton on vibraphones/xylophone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJH94A88OPg
Loved Taj Mahal— highly talented! This one- and btw, good on you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAPqGZNtXTE
OTOH..."cakewalk" as a term, is actually NOT used much, if at all today, so this idiot Chinese INVADER, needs to just go back to China and stay there!
Actually the Use of Gung ho was first used by the commander of a Marine Rader Battalion. The commander had learned of the Chinese work cooperative. The idea was “ pulling together” to achieve a common goal. It was not derogatory. Now it means you have total bought into the plan. I watched a movie a long time ago where the Marine Battalion commander was encouraging working together and the phrase “Gung ho. The lady has no idea what she is talking about.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho
Yes, these terms were never "derogatory" at all; okay, low man on the totem pole is, but that's about it. M.M. Blume out. As I stated, CAKEWALK comes from the late 19th century dance contest/dance. The dances were considered to be "light recreation". And "TAKE THE CAKE" ( as in winning the prize, which IS what the couple did, but now also means that the person or persons are THE biggest/winner/ whatever ) also comes from this as well.
So snowflake miss Wong just needs to STFU and go back to China!
Whatever, a pigsty racist would still stink on ice, no matter what her last name is.
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