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Is it racist to call them ‘jimmies’?
Boston Globe ^ | June 21, 2015 | Sara Morrison

Posted on 06/23/2015 7:52:11 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Society
KEYWORDS: icecream; jimcrow; jimmies; massachusetts
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The term "colored sprinkles" is next.
1 posted on 06/23/2015 7:52:11 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

People are really turning into mental cases.


2 posted on 06/23/2015 7:54:49 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: headstamp 2

Jimmy crack corn, and I don’t care!


3 posted on 06/23/2015 7:56:05 PM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight (Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Everything is racist.

Deal with it.


4 posted on 06/23/2015 7:57:37 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (You Don"t Need To Wait For The Next FReepathon To Make A Donation.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

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.


5 posted on 06/23/2015 7:57:52 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

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”.


6 posted on 06/23/2015 8:00:35 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

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


7 posted on 06/23/2015 8:00:54 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: ConservativeStatement

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


8 posted on 06/23/2015 8:02:57 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Just shoot me now.


9 posted on 06/23/2015 8:04:07 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

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


10 posted on 06/23/2015 8:05:28 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: ConservativeStatement

“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.


11 posted on 06/23/2015 8:10:31 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

DeToqueville was a visionary.


12 posted on 06/23/2015 8:11:17 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: ConservativeStatement

These kids are really that stupid?


13 posted on 06/23/2015 8:13:02 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ConservativeStatement

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.


14 posted on 06/23/2015 8:14:59 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: ladyjane
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

15 posted on 06/23/2015 8:15:22 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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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.

16 posted on 06/23/2015 8:17:43 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
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?)

17 posted on 06/23/2015 8:18:13 PM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: ConservativeStatement
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...

18 posted on 06/23/2015 8:18:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: headstamp 2

Agreed. We’ve crossed into the truly absurd.


19 posted on 06/23/2015 8:18:48 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Never heard of Jimmies


20 posted on 06/23/2015 8:18:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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