dear cecil:
i read the origin of the term honky… i had a friend from allentown, pa tell me that the term came from the white boys from allentown driving over to pottstown, pa to visit the cat houses in the black neighborhood. they would drive down the street stop, and blow their horns and the prostitutes would come out of their houses to me them. the term that the girls would use for them was “honkys”. this term then spread as a derogatory term for whites throughout the black communities of the us. any truth to this story? thanks bob