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To: kevcol

In the first tweet, can anybody translate what “woods” means in Ebonics [sp?]


26 posted on 08/23/2013 6:52:38 AM PDT by alphadog (2nd Bn. 3rd Marines, Vietnam, class of 68)
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To: alphadog

“woods” = white people


29 posted on 08/23/2013 6:55:53 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: alphadog
In the first tweet, can anybody translate what “woods” means in Ebonics [sp?]

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It is an old derogatory term for Whites.

In black culture they consider themselves aligned with crows.

Whites were woodpeckers, redheaded and always poking.

The word was inverted to peckerwood, which also had a sly innuendo to penis.

and Wood is the current word.

30 posted on 08/23/2013 6:57:57 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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