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<blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 1360588" data-attributes="member: 33372">Maybe it&#039;s a Regional Term because in the South it&#039;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&#039;s both Racist and DegradingThis excerpt is from a letter MLK wrote while jailed for protesting for Equal Rights that speaks volumes on the term &quot;boy&quot;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.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="728ups, post: 1360588, member: 33372"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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