Yeah this guy had brown then grey hair. 
As did local Boston gangland leader Whitey Bulger, who hated the nickname apparently.
Elbonia: Depends on what Dana did. Is it something like Wesley Crusher falling into some flowers or the idiot who took ammo into the Turks & Caicos? If it’s the latter then let Dana rot. If it’s the former, give concessions, get Dana back, then register our displeasure through other means.
This, more or less.
I’d say, discuss it, and then change the names – because although the names aren’t racist, they may have the appearance of being racist to some that hear them. Build a fence around that particular law. And explain that that’s what you’re doing.
And any gifts I’ll be giving this year will probably be homemade.
I don’t think any of our Black friends would find that offensive. Perhaps I’ll ask them. (all of our squirrels are grey or brown, and also unnamed). [BTW, “squirrel” is a very strange word when you type it out]
Also, Whitey Whitney (friend of Beaver Cleaver).
So, based on this logic, should the restaurant chain “Cracker Barrel” change its name? What if I ask for black coffee, is that potentially offensive? How about the book “Black Beauty”?
I’m not being argumentative, I ask in good faith.
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I think there’s a clear difference between the (nick) name “Blackie”, and the adjective “black” used to describe a black (or very darky colored) non-human.
Ok, that makes sense.
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Cracker Barrel is an epithet used against white people, and Cracker Barrel leans into that identity
Blackie is a diminutive and therefore used as a name(and therefore can be racist) . The “black” in black coffee, etc. is an adjective and wouldn’t be used alone.
Part of why you might want to avoid racist terms is not because you might offend someone, but because you basically reinforce the racism of people around you - letting them know that you have no problem using those words, they can use them to. Even if your calling a squirrel Blackie, and they want to use that word to talk about black people.
My late wife and I would give silly nicknames to a lot of our possessions. The names usually ended in -y. Our spinning wind sculpture was Spinney, our silver garbage can was Shiney, our truck was Trucky and our white Prius was Whitey. My wife had a Black friend whom she had known since high school, and after a discussion we decided we wouldn’t use the name Whitey when the Black friend was with us. I doubt that he would actually have been offended, but we wanted to be extra cautious. We had no qualms about using the name at other times though; it was clearly based on the color of the car and had nothing to do with race.
I’m on the fence about the poll question; on one hand I wouldn’t want to give the child the impression that casual racism is acceptable or should be ignored; on the other hand my personal opinion is she is going overboard in objecting to a name that clearly has nothing to do with race.
Am I that invested in calling some squirrel by a name my kid is concerned about? Nope.
Cite?
Cite on which?
What the what now?
Where Did Cracker Barrel Get Its Name? | Cracker Barrel Blog
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® is a familiar restaurant and retail store, but some folks may not be familiar with how we got our name. It’s a simple story really, but we think it’s pretty interesting. Would you like to hear it? OK, let’s gather around the cracker barrel and we’ll tell ya!
Soda crackers used to be shipped to old country stores in large wooden barrels to prevent the crackers from breaking apart during the shipping process. Back in the day, country stores were a gathering place for many communities; somewhere folks could catch up on news, local events, and their neighbors’ lives. Sounds like a familiar place, right? So, when barrels were empty, they were used as makeshift tables to hold a checkerboard, a conversation or both. We’d like to think some things never change.
That the restaurant name is an epithet, that it is against white people and that the restaurant Named Cracker Barrel leans into their name being an epithet against white people.
Right- should Dana have known it was illegal?
Huh? Do you know that old timey General Stores used to have a cracker barrel that one and all could grab in and eat? And the restaurants lean into that. Cracker can be a racial insult, but in Georgia it is old.
As for dances- In the Blues Brothers, Ray Charles does Shake a Tail Feather , which has many of those.
Ok, to clarify.
Yes, Cracker Barrel got its name from the barrels used to ship crackers to small towns. A local museum used to have a full sized display of an old country store complete with a couple of barrels filled with crackers.
Cracker is an epithet used by some POC to refer to white people in a derogatory manner.
When I said that Cracker Barrel “leans into it” I meant their whiteness. I doubt that anyone in higher management would be bothered by being called a cracker
And if you need a cute on it being used as an epithet, I give you this
We had to stay in a hotel a few years back (our condo complex was tented for termites), and since our dogs did not get along with local family’s dogs, we couldn’t stay with them. We ended up at a place in Oxnard, and it had free breakfasts. I loved the waffles. Their waffle machines were always working; the batter was good; you could control the doneness. They had real butter (not that whipped margarine crap) and real maple syrup. I ate them every morning of our stay.
I couldn’t remember the name of the place, but I knew some professional ball team did their “spring” training in the area and stayed there. That piece of data was about the fourth item in my google search – The Dallas Cowboys.
In theory. But it doesn’t actually happen. At least not in the past 30 years.