Alright Black folks! You don't have a monopoly on the word "brother" ...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Listen, it’s just how I talk. I call everybody brother! (Well, my friends anyway)

Most of the time it’s just “bro’” but if I happen to be in a particularly good mood or if I haven’t seen some one in a particularly long time it’s “Hey, what’s up brother!”

Except for everytime I say this to a black friend of mine they laugh at me and say “Shakes you know you’re not black, right?” to which I have to explain myself all over again.

There. I said it. Now spread the word.
(In case it isn’t blatantly obvious, this is ment as a light hearted thread)

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It’s a long, long road, from which there is no return. But while we’re on the way to there, why not share?

: d & r :

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To which you should have responded by looking at your hands (front and back), dropping to your knees, and proclaiming to the skies, “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”

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I know what you mean, comrade.

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“Why, Rex! How many times have I told you to wash up after weekly cross-burnings?”

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And you’re not a hippie either, right? Weird. They say “brother” a lot. Personally, I only do it when I’m quoting Arrested Development.

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I’ve recently heard myself using ‘brother’ over and over recently.

Of course, it probably has NOTHING to do with the fact that I’m terrible with names and the term “dude” was wearing thin.

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Bikers
monks

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I just say, “What up NIGGGGA!!!”, in the cool David Cross style of flipping over monks into the meditation pool.

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Heh. I’ve got an old mate, a paid-up member of various socialist political parties who addresses everyone, young and old as comrade.

The under-30’s go :confused:

The old ones like me go :rolleyes:

He’s just one of those anachronisms that come up from time to time. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Just don’t do that fist in the air thing. White people look really dumb doing that.

And, under no circumstances, ever, for any reason, should you, or any other White person ever sing “We Shall Overcome”

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If you hang around Muslims for any length of time, you will hear everybody is “brother” and “sister.” Islamic identity is not tied to race but multiracial. I have a hunch that Muslim use of global “brother” and “sister” may be the origin of how it came to be a Black thing in the '60s when Islam in the African-American community and the Black Power movement took off simultaneously and in tandem.

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Huh? What’s wrong with Joan Baez’s rendition then?

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She’s Chicana. Sort of.

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Interesting. I live in a Muslim area, and I have picked up “brother” and “bro”. The local young Lebanese guys use it all the time. It’s been reinforced by a significant Maori presence in the area - those guys use it as well.

Strangely, the Lebanese have also resurrected the older (in this country, at least) use of “champ”. The guy in my local chicken shop always calls me “champ”. I like it.