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- Jan 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: classy
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Why should your parents know it? They didn't use it, and no one ever directed it at them or anyone they know. Same reason that you don't know it. I don't think it's disputable that the origins of that rhyme are both racist and harmful. I might write something in-depth about this subject later, but i don't have time now. The one thing that i'll say is that racism is not being "kept alive" by black people. Again I ask, how is not letting anything I consider offensive to be said to me cause racism?
Well, if I don't know anything about it, and my 65 year old partents don't know anything about it then how could White poeple have used this little rhyme towards a couple of Black ladies in their mid 40's? Kinda proves my point......the N***** part of this rhyme is being kept alive by the Black community because us White's alive today have no clue of it or it's origins so thus how can my use (or that of a 22 year old White flight attendant) of some form of that rhyme be considered racist in any way?
Yea no way any white person today could possibly no the origin of that tune or any other.![]()
Maybe if you are in the KKK... but otherwise I'm pretty much 100% sure at least my peers and my parents (and their peers) don't know its origin.