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To: pissant

He may not have meant it that way, but itis pretty damn well a de facto interpretation, that a white man referring to a grown black man a “boy”, even if he is an aquaintance, is a racial slur. Is it always so? no. But like your example, it’s between people who know each other, and know no malice is meant by it.

I can tell you I’ve already read Democrat talkback, calling it racism.


64 posted on 04/14/2008 2:54:32 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Tin eared zeroes and Hollypukes comin...)
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To: DGHoodini

It’s up to us to stomp this crap out. Meaning PC. Can’t have indians as mascots, can’t say orientals, can’t use the term ‘illegal alien’, can’t publish cartoons with Mohammed, gotta change Christmas break to Winter break, gotta use ‘african American’ instead of black, can’t use Osama Obama’s middle name, gotta send all government employees to diversity trainig....it goes on and on and on and on.

One of my goals is to drive a stake through the heart of political correctness. And in case you think my ire is just aimed at liberals, you are wrong. All the stupid lectures from Huch Hewitt and other conservatives about the “bigotry” of those who don’t want a mormon in the whitehouse grated just as much on me.


72 posted on 04/14/2008 3:04:13 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: DGHoodini
"But like your example, it’s between people who know each other, and know no malice is meant by it."

No, Mr Shill, it isn't. I've lived in a lot of areas of this country, North and South of the Mason Dixon line. In NO AREA where it is in common usage is "boy" reserved for people who know each other. It is used for total strangers, enemies, acquaintances and relatives in the exact same way that that the less well known "girl" is.

87 posted on 04/14/2008 3:25:06 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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