Posted on 03/15/2019 4:02:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode
A video of Maya Angelou checking a teenage girl for calling her by her first name went viral and sparked a Twitter debate Friday about names, age and respect like none other.
In the video, which Newsweek reports is from the early 1990s, Angelou is sitting on stage taking questions from the audience. The host chooses a young girl who begins her question by addressing Angelou as "Maya."
“Oh, thank you,” Angelou replies to the girl in the clip. "And first, I’m Ms. Angelou."
"I’m not Maya, I’m 62 years old," Angelou continues. "I’ve lived so long and tried so hard that a young woman like you, or any other, has no license to come up to me and call me by my first name. That’s first. Also, because at the same time, I’m your mother, I’m your auntie, I’m your teacher, I'm your professor. See?”
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The clip was uploaded by Twitter user Prince Pierre (@PrinceCharmingP) on Thursday night who captioned it, "I can’t wait to turn 30 so I can read one of yall for calling me by my first name like this."
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That’s Mike Tyson? I thought it was Redd Foxx.
ROFLMAO!
More like Esther :)
Unless it’s on a bathroom stall and speaks of a woman’s abilities or a man’s anatomy, it ain’t poetry. But hey, that’s just me.
I worked at a university years ago, & Maya Angelou was invited by the student union to speak. We had the usual black activists in the ‘Black Student Union.’ I went to her talk & one of those activists stood up to ask her if all Blacks should go to Africa for a while (as she had done) so as to understand what it was like to live in an all-black country. Maya’s answer was great: “The only thing you will find from living in Africa is that you are an AMERICAN.”
Kudos to Ms. Angelou in trying to teach respect to a population who were growing up without such discipline........
If any vets here object to her response, how many of them actually had the balls to call their basic training DI by his first name?.........LOL!
” If you have nothing bad to say about a leftist then say nothing at all. “
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I hear you. And I have plenty bad to say about Leftists.
(sorry I missed the mark in your opinion (or were you kidding?))
Reminds me of a line from Chinatown:
“I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.”
Lot of truth there.
....with a grey wig!
Maya was a cupcake compared to Ms. Nina Simone.
Wow! You were right:
I didn’t know that MAYA was not even her name. It was a nickname.
Her real name is Marguerite Johnson.
What is it, with the far lefties, always covering up their real names..?
She was once married to a GREEK SAILOR..?
Didn’t know that one, either.
In addition to once being a whore, she was later also a PIMP.
No, I don’t simply mean “Packin’ dat dope Staihl, nome sayin’..?”, I mean, uh...a real pimp.
I would say it was very appropriate.
You should have been in my parent's house for a family gathering when my then teenage nephew walked thru the front door with a backwards ball cap on his head and went up to his grandfather to wish him happy birthday........
Dad was a marine WW-II vet, MSU graduate then Army officer stationed in Berlin during the Korean war. Went on to become a Detroit police officer who always kept his shoes spit shined.
Nephew never walked into dad's house with a hat on his head again. Or ever wore one in dad's presence...........LOL!
I was taught to address my parents’ friends as Mr. or Mrs., and if they’re close friends, Uncle or Aunt. Never presume to use their first name, until you’re invited to do so.
I can say one thing for sure, she was no pretty woman.
Hahahah!
An “Influencer” is a real profession nowadays. You show a product on YouTube, or talk about it in your blog, and you influence other people to try it out too.
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That’s all true, but there are other varieties of influencer out there. They are the recognized experts in their fields, the ones whose posts are sought out and responded to,those who have changed their selected fields of endeavor. You find these sorts of influencer in marketing, tech, writing, the arts.
Language evolves along with culture and politics. IMO, those young Instagram models are wannabes, trying to imitate the Kardashians. The never realize the K’s were wealthy and connected before they were born and they are commodities who have constantly used surgery and other means to become icons of beauty in order to sell products that are the basis of their current fortunes.
Agree, but she felt dissed. And in the end she has to maintain that street-cred.
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