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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LOL!
THAT’S the closest similarity.
Scary! :)
It might help if any of these articles told us who this person is and why we should care. Because I don’t know, and therefore I don’t care!
One of my fraternity brothers shared a hot tub with Maya near Weak Florist where she taught. Yeah, I called her that.
Young folks need to be taught courtesies but not in a way that puts them down, like her reply did. Not sure what she thought she was accomplishing by dissing the girl.
Respect and courtesy works.
Her street cred is the Left thinks she's a great poet.
I can't stand her.
She should be called Ms Angelou or even Ms Maya. Personally though, I will call Our current President, Trump, Donald Trump, President Trump, Sir, etc. and I think The Donald would love them all.
Well darn...somebody should just dig her up and kick her ass. That’ll show her.
Michael Savage despised her. Years ago, Mike would criticize her so much, I began to think he was jealous of her international acceptance and success. “She was a big phony with no education!!”.
Yeah, Mike. We could all be called ‘phony’ at one time or another.
What she meant was the young woman should show respect to any of those women who are older and deserve respect.
May Angelou is a nasty piece of work and she loves to display a little ‘tube just to show who’s boss. Don’t mind her insisting on a more formal address, but she doesn’t have to be a b*tch about it.
Yeah she’s right. In my house it was always yes sir yes ma’am no sir no ma’am and to others it was yes Mr Smith or No Mrs Smith. Never call anyone out of their first name, especially an elder, unless you’re friends or they want you to
Maya Angelou died in 2014.
Meaning to respect your elders and you don’t call any that she listed by their first name.
Not a joking matter.
When did Barack pose with Fred Sanford?
Angelou really should have checked her Black privilege. /sarc
She was nasty and belittling to that poor girl. The girl immediately corrected herself, but that wasn’t enough for nasty Maya. She humiliated that girl.
Shame on you FReelers who are siding with this no talent leftie hack.
Shame on you FReelers who are siding with this no talent leftie hack.
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What do you mean by no talent?
She’s black. She’s female. She’s communist.
That’s three things she’s good at.
I mean, come on, what does it take to make the grade these days!??!
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