Posted on 04/05/2018 5:10:13 PM PDT by ethom
Joe Scarborough dismissed the idea of actor and former wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a president, arguing he, like President Donald Trump, is as qualified as a “lawn boy.”
Sounds like Morning Schmoe has a different dog in the hunt. Lawn boy, JOe? This is a lawn boy, you racist piece of sh!t:
Someone contact CNN’s Jen Psaki and ask if there are any racial undertones to ScarboroughIdiot’s use of lawn boy, etc. in reference to Dwayne JohnsonIdiot.......
Actually, that is a “Lawn Jockey.” They have an interesting history as they were used to show escaped slaves the route north. Different coloring told escapees how to travel safely, food and shelter available etc.
“Lawn Boy” is the kid that cuts your grass.
My take away is that Scarborough received brain surgery from a lawn boy?
The jockeys was mostly called “black boys” by the generation that put them at the base of each of their driveways in, for example, Grosse Pointe, and thought they were adorable. When I did the web search, I used “lawn jockey”, but I’ve literally never heard them called that, ever (I’m in my late 50s, wow, how did that happen?).
The story about how they guided slaves also shows up in the “lawn jockey” search — it also took my be surprise at first, but a quick read showed me the unsurprising information that it’s not a true story. They were literally never used for that. The other story of origin is that George Washington commissioned a statue called “The Faithful Groomsman” as a memorial to Jocko Graves, supposedly a 12 year old son of a black volunteer for the Revolutionary army — Jocko froze to death on duty, you guessed it, holding a lantern.
For once I agree with Joe. LOL!
“Is lawn boy the same as a lawn jockey?”
A lawn boy is a live lawn jockey. Obama was more lawn jockey
as he was brain dead - a case of all syntax and no thinking policy behind it.
Dwayne IDIOCRACY Johnson.
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