CNN reporter calls black man "boy"

The BBQ Pit
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Not true. I even believe liberal has the right to be offended in this thread.

I didn’t argue that particular point. In fact I supported it in my opening statement in that thread. I argued whether or not Imus was motivated by a racist heart and how it was possible for him to misunderstand the import of his words. I never argued that blacks were wrong to be offended. I did appeal for understanding though.

Right I haven’t jumped to Libs side or defense on this issue so why should I jump to yours?

Wrong. Did I suggest you were hypersensitive or anything like that in the other thread ?

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I heard Mr. Lib talk about us.
I heard ol’ Lib put us down.
Well I hope Liberal will remember
That a southern boy don’t need him around anyhow.

I was sure Liberal was playing with us, too. Ah well. Life goes on.

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While this may be enough for John Mace, forgiving type that he is, you frankly owe everyone else an apology. You’ve started with a false major premise, a false minor premise, and are nonetheless acting as if your conclusion is sound. A fan of logic such as yourself ought to be considerably more embarrassed than you’re currently acting. Perhaps you’re rather too eager to reach the conclusion you desire.

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It’s a quirk I share wholeheartedly. However, I get the distinct impression we are very much in the minority.

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Win.

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Why bother blaming you for what you have actually done when the things that you will do in my speculations are so much more egregious? Take that, Mr. Dutchman!

Did anyone notice a sportscaster using the expression “Chinese fire drill” during a football game recently? I hope someone had a little talk with her later about the use of the phrase. It certainly set my teeth on edge. Couldn’t believe that she had said it. Dumb

“Good ole boy” doesn’t have pleasant connotations for me and I live in the South. Here in Nashville it’s usually a reference to the system or network that keeps certain insiders on the road to promotion and the outsiders are out of luck no matter how accomplished they are. For a long time it kept women from being promoted and it kept some really inefficient people in positions of authority.

“Country boy” and “redneck” or “red neck” are different in their connotations. A redneck is usually a wisecracking, hard drinking, pickup truck driving, dog owning,
hell-raising, porch-sitting rural dwelling human stereotype. A “country boy” is someone brought up in a rural area with a generally peaceful result.

These are just my take on the connotations of these words. YMMV.

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Is it still okay to call something a Mongolian Clusterfuck?

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Foghorn Leghorn to Liberal: Boy. Boy! I’m pitchin’ but you’re not catchin’, boy!

Foghorn Leghorn turns to the Pit: Boy’s about as sharp as a bowlin’ ball.

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Boy, it sure is (or, in keeping with the thread theme, “It sure is boy”). Would you care to point out-exactly, by quoting-where in my post that you linked that I am “up in arms”? If you can’t, then it’s obvious who the dumbass is.

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Here’s you arguably up in arms in post 317.

If you want to take this down the rabbit hole of semantics regarding what “up in arms” really means, I for one am not going to follow. It’s clear enough to me that you were doing exactly the same thing that Liberal was doing here.

I suggest that you don’t go listening to any Ray Charles music, because [whisper]sometimes he calls people “boy” in it![/whisper]Gasp! Maybe, like Samari Rolle, TJ “the black anchor” should consider bringing suit against Suzanne Malveaux. Sheesh, with a name like Malveaux, you just knew she would be bad!

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For those of us at home, could you spell it more like “Bo-ahh”, or something?
“Boy-eee!” is spelled the same way, but, well, sounds a bit different.

Maybe we could get Flava Flav and the corpse of Malcom X to duke it out.

Seriously, of all the awful shit in this world, this weekend, this is what we get?

Now go to bed.

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Nothing really to add except to brag that Suzanne was my counselor one summer at camp. :slight_smile:

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Did she call you “girl”? :wink:

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No Hentor, actually I’m not, and what’s pathetic is that you don’t even seem to have a clue that YOU’RE the one making the mistake Liberal made in starting this thread. Liberal’s mistake was equating calling a black man “boy” with calling him “a nice southern boy”. The entire point of the disdain directed his way in this thread is that the two terms aren’t remotely similar, and here you come trying to say that my saying “Calling a black man boy is a term of extreme disrespect, whether the person doing the name calling is white or black.” is the same thing. How in the bleeding fuck could you be so goddamned ignorant so as to miss (and in fact reverse) the entire point of a three page thread is beyond me, but that’s exactly what you are doing here. Just admit you were wrong and move on. It doesn’t kill you, believe me, I know, I’ve been wrong lots of times.

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Oh Hentor, is hitting all the important points how we antagonize?

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Is it OK for her to ask Barack Obama, “Are you black enough?”

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If she did, it would have been entirely appropriate, as I was only about 14 at the time. :slight_smile:

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Just wanted to say that this had me cracking up all day.

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It appears to me that the CNNness of the event trumped all else for you, (you are the one who tried to say the event is relevant to the correct characterization of CNN) but had almost no relevance for anyone else in this thread.

-FrL-

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Actually, Suzanne Malveaux posed that question to Hillary Clinton.