The Dog don’t have a mullet. The Dog is working on a skullet, also called a Ben Franklin.
Well, he says that he’s going to find out the names of all the slaves who are buried there and mark their graves. That should be a breeze- how difficult could it possibly be for a man with no formal education or archaeological/historical research training to find out who’s in each of a hundred or so unmarked 200 year old completely undocumented graves of people known only by their names on ledgers if that? I’m surprised the two Catholic ladies who evidently own Mt. Vernon haven’t already done this, UNLESS… there’s a cover up.
Maybe all those numbers and odd words and seemingly non sequitur comments Martha Washington wrote with her own blood on the floor of Mt. Vernon’s pentagram room when she was dying were some sort of code and she was trying to tell us something and they weren’t really just common pneumonia symptoms like the history books say they were! THE DOG VINCI CODE begins (and remember that DOG, spelled backwards, is someone you don’t wanna hit with a newspaper…)
You just can’t refrain from the ethnic slurs, can you, D_Odds?
WRONG!
A skullet, if indeed that is what he has, is just a sub-species of mullet. And you can have mulletitude with either.
While I understand you are making a joke, “buck” as a potential slur is completely lost on me. I’ve never heard that one.
Here in Winnipeg I have heard the term “Wigger” to describe a white person who wears those Baggy trousers, backwards baseball hat etc.
I assume the term is both racist and insulting to both whites and blacks. Is it a term in general usage or peculiar to Winnipeg?
My parts are the Philly, USA area. I am not jumping in to object, I wanted to have more time to give some perspective as numerous folks near me are trying to use excuses for Dog…well before he even spoke about his dilemma. Sorry, should have only posted when time permitted. Anyway, below is a summary of some local perspective. This is so typical of the local mind set:
*There are equivalents to ‘‘nigger’’ (such as the ones I listed. Redneck, or spic, etc).
You can be non-racist, etc and throw out the word nigger all day and night, and then sit down for lunch with you BFF, a black guy you grew up with and know well. Well, he’s not a nigger…but that hip-hop looking guy whose mug shot was shown after he was suspected of killing a cop, yeah he’s a nigger.
Same goes for Spanish folk. Oh, I love my spanish neighbor, but he’s ‘just Spanish’. The scum of the Spanish…oh, we’ll reserve ‘spic’ for them.
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That’s the stuff I run into all the time. I’ve got ‘black friends, but I hate niggers’. In other words, there are white people and white trash, black people and niggers, Spanish people and spics, Jewish people and Kikes…etc. This is very much the local mindset.
Sorry, I am just throwing some perspective into the mix. Maybe it doesn’t fit. Dog did seem to be saying something similar during his rant that buried him, such that he used ‘nigger’ to refer to the black scum…but that no one would understand that if it went public.
Yes, it’s right up there with people who use the word “fag” to insult a heterosexual who is acting in an effeminate, weak or cowardly manner. With one fell swoop, they manage to offend everyone within earshot who has a brain, regardless of orientation. :rolleyes: 
As much as I appreciated your post, Sampiro, if you could tell they had Down’s Syndrome, you aren’t really from white trash.
ETA: 
Agreed
Incorrect. Honkey, cracker and paddy are both terms used by non-whites to disparage all whites.
Isn’t “paddy” meant specifically for those whites who are of Irish descent? Hence, a cop truck was a “paddy wagon” because so many policemen were Irish-American?
I heard it used now and then when I was in high school in New York, a decade ago.
He didn’t say there weren’t any insults for white people, he said there’s none that’s equivalent to “nigger.” This is a hijack waiting to happen, but I agree with him - there’s no term for all white people in this country that has the weight of historical oppression behind it.
“White” is not a physical trait? Bullshit.
Double bullshit. Never? Dare I ask for a cite? Hell, I’ll save you the trouble. Not only is your statement bullshit, it is the opposite of the truth. The phrase most likely was **originated **by blacks to refer to poor whites.
How about a literary reference? From Faulkner’s Light in August :
Cite.
Do you suppose he just made that up. Or did perhaps Mr. Faulkner have an ear for Southern dialogue?
I know you like to swoop in like an avenging angel and chastise anyone who feels remotely insulted by the term, but the least you could do is stop spreading specious bullshit along the way.
Well, let’s see.
First, wigger=white nigger. So it’s another twofer insult…it insults a white guy because he acts like a nigger.
And there ain’t no ethnic slur against whites that’s equivalent to “nigger” against blacks. Sure, there are slurs against whites, but they just don’t have the same power. They just don’t. Sure, it would be more fair if they did, but they don’t, and claiming they do is just silly. Ofay, cracker, honkey…they, well, pale compared to nigger. I’m sorry if you think this is unfair, but it’s true.
As for “buck”, it’s a simple dehumanizing slur for a male black person, refering to him with the same word you’d use for a male animal.
Are you saying Italian people are no better than insects?!?!? :eek:
I’m still trying to find a way to tell my coworker that some folks consider “gypsy” to be Really Bad.
I disagree that any of them are equivalent. They have never been used by people who had power over whites and they don’t have anything close to the social or emotional impact that the N-word has. “Honky,” in particular, is about the most flaccid of all racial implications. I’ve never once heard it used seriously.
And doesn’t “paddy” just refer to Irish people? I’ve never heard it unoversally applied to white people before.
Redneck as a slur is one I particularly disagree with. Many people self-identify as rednecks with no sense of shame whatever. Jeff Foxworthy unfortunately blurred the line because a lot of his redneck jokes are really whitetrash and there is a distinction.
Whitetrash is the most equivalent to nigger (sorry for typing it, but I really do agree that saying “the N word” is becoming like “You Know Who”) in that it is always derogatory. Even when somebody says “I’m from poor whitetrash” they mean it derogatorily. That said it has several different uses.
To the most arrogant and classist white people, white trash means poor whites in general. While I’ve been poor and I’ve been white I would never classify my family as white trash, but I totally understand that some people would have seen as such.
To most southerners, including poor southerners, white trash is a word that has less to do with socioeconomics than morality. White trash are the people who milk welfare, are constantly in trouble with the law, sexually amoral/promiscuous, not just uneducated and ignorant but damned proud of being uneducated and ignorant, loud, mannerless, etc… Britney Spears and Paris Hilton are both multimillionaires but they’re whitetrash (at least if the reports are to be believed).
As a term I consider it racial more than racist since it’s used mostly by white people against white people but mostly it’s classist and really it’s individualist in scope (though it can be used against a family of course). There’s a terror among poor whites that they or their children will one day slip into whitetrash hoods.
Most of the racist black people I’ve known actually use cracker or just white people (said in a way you know is insulting) as their terms of choice, though once in a blue moon you’ll hear ofay. The latter should really be used more- has a nice history and it’s just more traditionally pleasing or displeasing. Maybe it should be a Dope project to midwife its comeback.
You are quite ignorant of what you speak. The word originated among white people and does NOT refer to a physical trait but to an economic class. I don’t care if a Faulkner had a black character say it. I never said that no black person ever used it. I am saying that it’s a term primarily used by whites to refer to other whites and regardless of the color of the speaker it STILL isn’t use in reference to all white people but only to a certain, economic subset.
That poor Strawman never saw it coming.
Why, I was just explaining my very interesting heritage to some limeys the other night at a restaurant… I brought up the fact that I might be melungeon from the hills of WV. They gave me blank looks, so I explained that they sometimes referred to us as guinea niggers, natively… mixed breeds. That clarified it, although much to their obvious discomfort, actually hearing the word which shall never be spoken in mixed company caused the blokes some consternation.
So, what does that make me? Racist or descriptive?