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Get White Boy Drunk: Is That Racist?

White Boy Drunk: Racist or Not?


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Kali

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I was watching Bridezillas on TV and this black couple had just gotten married and was asked in interview what you want to do now? The black groom replied get white boy drunk. Do you feel that is racist or not?

I do not cause he did not seem to say it in hate and there is that whole song about getting white boy crazy. What do you think? One my white friends say it was racist but she said the Bridezilla was lucky he showed up at all.
 
What happens if the reverse was true and it was a white couple making a very similar comment about a black person?
 
Let's put it this way, if a white person said "get black boy drunk", heads would roll. Yes, it's somewhat racist... that color was used as a descriptor at all shows some racial element. Why not use "get ___(persons name)___ drunk"? The statement wasn't as racist as say "get cracker boy drunk" or some other derivative...
 
What happens if the reverse was true and it was a white couple making a very similar comment about a black person?

of course, boy was what white people called black slaves, right?
 
It is not something to get offended over, but could certainly be construed as racist, especially if you consider any form of the comment as applied with wording that suggest that it is something black people would do and it would be negative, is racist.

"dressed like a black guy"
"talks black"

To me, though, it isn't the words themselves that make something racist, but what the intention behind those words are.

And I have no idea what "White Boy Crazy" is unless someone got hold of some information/footage on one of my brothers. They are all crazy and they are most definitely white.
 
What happens if the reverse was true and it was a white couple making a very similar comment about a black person?
Depends...does "Black boy Drunk" imply you are going to get krunk and rock it on the dance floor?

What is 'white boy drunk' anyway? I mean...I vaguely remember my very much younger days...and if dood is wanting to get this kind of white boy drunk...that marriage wont last a month!
 
I think "white boy drunk" means that you get drunk without drinking any 40s or Hennessy.
 
I think "white boy drunk" means that you get drunk without drinking any 40s or Hennessy.

Well Hennessy covers all grounds with "Hennessy White" and "Hennessy Black" - and everyone from Tupac to the Nazi's favored it.

So it's an all around equality liquor.
 
I don't even know what it means...
 
What happens if the reverse was true and it was a white couple making a very similar comment about a black person?

I admit that may bother me. I think maybe it did not bother me so much is cause of that white boy crazy song.

Edit to say I am looking for the YouTube video and cannot find the song but in the lyrics it says something like get white boy crazy. Does anybody else know what song I am talking about? I have seen it on MTV. I think the guy who sings it may be same dude (Asher Roth) who did I love college but not sure.
 
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are you actually gonna sit there and tell us the term "boy" doesn't have special significance to blacks?
I'm black, and I'm telling you "boy," doesn't have any special significance. Hell, I've never heard of this. Now, let's not be creating any more anti-black words we black folk don't even know about.
 
I'm black, and I'm telling you "boy," doesn't have any special significance. Hell, I've never heard of this. Now, let's not be creating any more anti-black words we black folk don't even know about.

right, a white person calling a black person "boy", has no more significance than if a white person is called "boy".

gotcha.
 
right, a white person calling a black person "boy", has no more significance than if a white person is called "boy".gotcha.
An adult man calling another adult man "boy" is rude. An adult calling a boy, "boy," isn't. Sorry, I don't care for "political correctness."
 
An adult man calling another adult man "boy" is rude. An adult calling a boy, "boy," isn't. Sorry, I don't care for "political correctness."

a white man calling a black man "boy", means a whole lot more than if he calls another white man "boy".

this is a fact.
 
I'm black, and I'm telling you "boy," doesn't have any special significance. Hell, I've never heard of this. Now, let's not be creating any more anti-black words we black folk don't even know about.
My name is Wake and I'm black so when I say something doesn't have significance, then I'm speaking for all "black folk".

No.

A lot of "black folk" certainly know about the meaning of "boy". It's how racists used to refer to all black men because they didn't consider them men, they considered them boys.
 
An adult man calling another adult man "boy" is rude. An adult calling a boy, "boy," isn't. Sorry, I don't care for "political correctness."
Political correctness is just your way of saying "I don't know the history of a term, so I'm going to pretend people just made it up".
 
a white man calling a black man "boy", means a whole lot more than if he calls another white man "boy".

this is a fact.

That depends on where you are and who you are talking to, including the age difference between the two.

I know plenty of older men, 40s and up, who will call any guy that looks younger than them by at least a decade "boy". The person's race makes no difference. I also know lots of guys that use "boy" to describe one of their buddies, as in "that's my boy!".

Yes, there are some people who will say this to a black guy as an attempt to degrade them, but that is not as common now as the more open use of it to refer to either younger men than the speaker or a specific buddy of the speaker no matter the race of any involved.
 
I was watching Bridezillas on TV and this black couple had just gotten married and was asked in interview what you want to do now? The black groom replied get white boy drunk. Do you feel that is racist or not?

I do not cause he did not seem to say it in hate and there is that whole song about getting white boy crazy. What do you think? One my white friends say it was racist but she said the Bridezilla was lucky he showed up at all.
Maybe? As a white person myself, that doesn't really offend me at all. But idk, racism can be in the eye of the beholder i suppose.
 
I'm a white "boy," and it doesn't offend me, as I see the truth of that statement every week. I see people of every race getting drunk on my campus each weekend, but it seems more often than not its a white guy/girl that's passed out or vomited all over him/herself. Doesn't mean white students are the only ones doing it, but they're the only ones I see doing it. Perhaps there are differences in how drunk you can be while still being socially acceptable between different cultures?
 
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