Racism rears its ugly head

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EVERYTHING HAS ABALANCE!!!!

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

EVERYTHING HAS ABALANCE!!!!

Tell that to the fat lady,trying to do a hand stand!

 

[MenInBrown]

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So you are saying their is no Obama recovery bc he's black?

 

[MenInBrown]

Next time you find yourself in a room with a black man, go ahead and call him boy and see what kind of reaction you get. Record it and post it on BC so we all can have a laugh.

What if his name is Boyd?

 

[Indecisi0n]

What if his name is Boyd?

Or Boy George.

 

[moreluck]

In Hawaii, all males are boy.....John-boy, Ralph-boy, Tito-boy, etc.
My grandson is Val-boy and he's 17

 

[oldngray]

In Hawaii, all males are boy.....John-boy, Ralph-boy, Tito-boy, etc.
My grandson is Val-boy and he's 17

Then is it OK to call Obama "Barry-boy"?

 

[moreluck]

He says he's from Hawaii....so it's OK.

 

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The White People on this forum that dont understand calling a Black Man "Boy" is racist would be hysterical if weren't so sad. I am shocked in 2014 people can be so insensitive and ignorant over such an obvious Racist Term
If the word Boy isn't proxy for the N word it's at the very least its cousin

 

[moreluck]

The word girl means prostitute !! Sounds as kooky as your aversion to "boy".

 

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The White People on this forum that dont understand calling a Black Man "Boy" is racist would be hysterical if weren't so sad. I am shocked in 2014 people can be so insensitive and ignorant over such an obvious Racist Term
If the word Boy isn't proxy for the N word it's at the very least its cousin

I think part of the reason people can't grasp the depth of the insult with calling a Black man "boy", is because unless you grew up in the South you didn't see it being used, first hand. It seems harmless. But when you've seen a grown man belittled and degraded with such a simple, "harmless" word, you realize how harmful it really is. No one should ever choose to take away a man's dignity and basic manhood with words such as those.

 

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The word girl means prostitute !! Sounds as kooky as your aversion to "boy".

The use of the word Boy to Black Men is so racist and dismissive that often during the Civil Rights Era protesters would carry signs that said I'm a Man.

 

[oldngray]

The White People on this forum that dont understand calling a Black Man "Boy" is racist would be hysterical if weren't so sad. I am shocked in 2014 people can be so insensitive and ignorant over such an obvious Racist Term
If the word Boy isn't proxy for the N word it's at the very least its cousin

Boy can be insulting but its not racist. That reminded me of James Cagney in Mister Roberts talking about how he hated being called "boy" when he was younger. Similarly calling a waiter in a French restaurant "garcon" is equivalent because you are calling him "boy" - and it is insulting to them.

 

[moreluck]

Atta boy !!!!

 

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Boy can be insulting but its not racist. That reminded me of James Cagney in Mister Roberts talking about how he hated being called "boy" when he was younger. Similarly calling a waiter in a French restaurant "garcon" is equivalent because you are calling him "boy" - and it is insulting to them.

A white man calling a Black man Boy is HIGHLY racist. you are comparing apples and oranges

 

[moreluck]

You have a problem !! Maybe you should start a crusade to have "boy" removed from the English language. Then you'd really look the fool.

 

[oldngray]

There is no question some words like the n word are extremely insulting and racist. Boy is different. In common usage it just means a young male. Far more frequently it is used in that way vs insult.

 

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There is no question some words like the n word are extremely insulting and racist. Boy is different. In common usage it just means a young male. Far more frequently it is used in that way vs insult.

Maybe it's a Regional Term because in the South it's on par with the N word.
I guess I am not conveying Tone,Context and Use well enough,as when used by White to Black Men it's both Racist and Degrading

This excerpt is from a letter MLK wrote while jailed for protesting for Equal Rights that speaks volumes on the term "boy"

But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that “Funtown” is closed to colored children, and see the depressing cloud of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading “white” and “colored,” when your first name becomes “N” and your middle name becomes “boy” (however old you are) and your last name becomes “John,” and when your wife and mother are never given the respected title “Mrs.”; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodyness”-then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.

 

[oldngray]

boy
noun, often attributive \ˈbȯi\
: a male child

: a young man

: a usually young man from a specified kind of place


Full Definition of BOY
1
often offensive : a male servant
2
a : a male child from birth to adulthood

b : son

c : an immature male <separate the men from the boys> <boy genius>

d : sweetheart, beau
3
a : one native to a given place <local boy>

b : fellow, person <the boys at the office>

c —used interjectionally to express intensity of feeling <boy, what a game>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boy

Notice the primary definition which is listed first is a male child. And it can be used in an offensive way but there is no mention of race. According to the dictionary that is.

 

[moreluck]

So you've seen vicious mobs? Probably not.
The world is YOUR experience. You are not MLK.

I'm tired of people talking slave days and they were never a slave and I never owned one.
What did you yourself experience ?? Did you go to school. Were there any whites in your school? Did you glean the fields after school?
Did you have sports teams at your school ?

There was one black girl in my school. She was my friend all through grade school. She was funnier than hell.....not Joe Pesci funny.
She went to public high school and I went to Catholic high school and we only saw each other in church after that..