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Get White Boy Drunk: Is That Racist?

White Boy Drunk: Racist or Not?


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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.

Some.. White slave owners used to call their male slaves boy and any folks that have read about slavery should know this.
 
I'm offended....





.... that people actually watch bridezillas.


and i'm also amused at people getting continually butthurt over any lil old thing that may or may not be racist... it's like a friggin' career for some folks around here.
 
Now that I think about it could it mean kinda like what "Calling Earl" used to mean to folks drunk and throwing up back in the day?
 
It's not racist in the most remote sense unless somehow someone is trying to portray white boys as inferior through the phrase.
 
It's not racist in the most remote sense unless somehow someone is trying to portray white boys as inferior through the phrase.
But they are inferior in two ways; white and male gender. :cool:

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

gotcha.

I agree. It is the "boy" that makes it racist in my opinion. Otherwise , it would be an innocuous remark. Goose and Gander deal, eh?
 
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.

Or maybe it was a fact years ago when hate was much more rampant. And maybe as time as passed the word's significance in racial hatred has diminished. If that's the case, as a few black people have told you, why would you insist upon re-invigorating the negative connotations of a word?
 
I invite people to get white boy drunk. That way we can rename it to rainbow drunk.
 
Concern about this kinda crap should get sucked into a black hole...
 
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 white, and I'm telling you that if a white man at my work calls a black man "boy", the charges of racism will be loud & frequent. Just because you are unfamiliar with the significance of a term doesn't make it false. That is, if you're being honest.
 
Scene (true story) from a military gym in Oklahoma during a lunchtime pick-up basketball game...

"I got this white boy here..."

Yo...dood...you want to switch up on D?

No man...Im OK...I will cover this black boy here...

"Nigga what did you just call me?"


Cut to Social Actions office an hour later.

"Yes sir...he called me a 'boy'."

I see...and what did you call him just before this all started?

"A white boy."

I see...so...you are 15 years younger than him, called him a boy, he called you a boy, and you freaked out?

"yeah but it dont mean the same thing to him..."

Get the **** out of my office...
 
a white man calling a black man "boy", is grounds for charges of racism.

its that simple. any denial of this is dishonesty and total bull****.
 
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...
Agreed. I don't think the couple intended it to be racist, but if they were white and said the same thing about a "black boy drunk", intentions or not, they would have been hammered for it. If it is racist one way, then it is racist the other way too.
 
To me, though, it isn't the words themselves that make something racist, but what the intention behind those words are.
While I agree with you, in this PC world and as noted above, if a white couple had said it with no intention of being racist, they would have been hammered for it. Not right, but that is the way it is. If it is racist one way, then it is racist the other way too.
 
a white man calling a black man "boy", is grounds for charges of racism.

its that simple. any denial of this is dishonesty and total bull****.
Considering the state in many black communities across the country, maybe its time people were a little less concerned about a white man calling a black man a 'boy' and more concerned about a black man calling another black man 'brother'. Just sayin...since you really seem to give a **** and all...
 
Considering the state in many black communities across the country, maybe its time people were a little less concerned about a white man calling a black man a 'boy' and more concerned about a black man calling another black man 'brother'. Just sayin...since you really seem to give a **** and all...

you can start another thread about it, if u like.
 
I'm white, and I'm telling you that if a white man at my work calls a black man "boy", the charges of racism will be loud & frequent. Just because you are unfamiliar with the significance of a term doesn't make it false. That is, if you're being honest.

I would hate to work in that **** hole job. Sounds to me like you could get fired for looking crossed eyed at someone.
 
I would hate to work in that **** hole job. Sounds to me like you could get fired for looking crossed eyed at someone.

so you think a employer should tolerate racist statements?

black men should simply tolerate being called "boy" by white people?

wow.
 
so you think a employer should tolerate racist statements?

black men should simply tolerate being called "boy" by white people?

wow.



Racist comments? Of course not. Referring to a black man as boy isn't neccessarily racist.

If you have a mail clerk that is in his early 20's, then yes, he's a boy and there's no racism.

black men should simply tolerate being called "boy" by white people?

Black men don't have to worry about it. Black boys are usually the idiots that are offended by it.
 
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so you think a employer should tolerate racist statements?

black men should simply tolerate being called "boy" by white people?

wow.

Why do you insist upon giving power to words to cause harm? Do you have some sort of fetish with creating a bunch of taboo phrases and words? Is your life that boring that you need to create a reason for people to respond to nonsense? If a group of people have collectively decided that "boy" isn't a racist dig for them why would you keep insisting that it be viewed that way? I used to work with a black man who, when I'd make a silly comment, would say, "Girl, you be trippin'." My response was always, "Boy, you just don't recognize the freshness". He damned well knew that "boy" was not a means of challenging him as inferior because of the color of his skin. But had you been there you'd have been screaming in his ear that I'm a racist hate-monger and why isn't he mad as hell at me for being such an ignorant racist.

In other words, why don't you stop speaking for people and creating racism for no other reason than you want it to be there? If the only two black contributors to this thread say they aren't bothered by the term then why are you, as a white man, going to tell them they're wrong?
 
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