Lynum: 'White Boy' Is No Racial Slur

Local 6 (Florida) ^ | June 29, 2006

[Stoat]

Just try calling a black male a "black boy" and see what happens.

[traditional1]

"Just try calling a black male a "black boy" and see what happens.

Amen, bro'...........

[Blue Turtle]

I am offended by that term...it is derogatory and racist. ACLU where are you?

[Sax]

Play that funky music white boy!

[jaydubya2]

Well it is very descriptive...

[Bommer]

"Daisy Lynum later made the comment that she did not want 'some white boy shooting my son or Tasing him,'"

Guess she doesn't want that privledge taken away from a black boy?

[Judith Anne]

And remember, it's the person the term is applied to that gets to decide if it's derogatory--NOT the person using the term.

She needs some sensitivity training. She be a bigot.

[Andonius_99]

don't you know it's a double standard? Once, in high school, a puerto-rican kid called me "white boy" as an insult. I replied and tacked on "brown boy" to the end of my sentence. A teacher overheard the entire situation and, consequently, I got sent to the administrator's office to recieve my punishment while Paco got to stay in the class...nice, huh?

[atomicpossum]

Just don't use the word 'niggardly.'

[American_Centurion]

Never heard the term "black boy", but go ahead and just try calling a black male a "boy" and see where that goes.

[xJones]

Just try calling a black male a "black boy" and see what happens.

It depends on if the caller is also black or not. I've heard blacks call each other by the "n" name and that's okay, but no non-blacks should dare try it.

It's interesting, I wouldn't find anyone calling my son a "white boy" an insult, and I'd LOL if anyone called him a "honkie". "Poor white trash" is about the only perjorative that would anger me.

[Mr. Mojo]

I suspect this black girl would have a different take if someone called Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton "black boy."

[JohnLongIsland]

one person's expletive is another person's daily vocabulary, that's the way of the world.

[31R1O]

Yes and white boy is no more offensive than "you people". Whatever...

[TopoGigio]

LOL!

[Jaxter]

"..when did 'white boy' become a racial slur."

Please, please. We prefer Cracker or Ofay.

[jaydubya2]

No, just shorten it to 'whitey'.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

If "white boy" or "whitie" is not racist, then neither should "negro" be, because that's just spanish/protugese/latin for black.

[Stoat]

Play that funky music white boy!

 

[massgopguy]

But is he a "Dirty White Boy" or a "Running White Faced City Boy"?