# Patronization of Black People

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patronization-of-black-people/153055>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 5, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patronization-of-black-people/153055 "2003-02-05T22:11:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patronization-of-black-people/153055/22 "2003-02-07T19:30:25Z")

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[Moderator Hat: ON]

tikoon said:

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> you aren’t making any kind of sense fool.

Wow. Only two messages so far and already you’ve broken the rules. Not a good start.

You want to insult somebody, go to the Pit. Or better yet, just go. But don’t do it again in Great Debates, or you will find that you don’t have an option about the “just go” part.

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David B, SDMB Great Debates Moderator

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patronization-of-black-people/153055/23 "2003-02-07T19:42:00Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Doghouse Reilly \*  
> \*\*Lord Ashtar: I was a little flippant just now, but I _would_ think that it has something to do with the premises and purpose of the study. I’ve heard some anectodal evidence to the effect that whites and nonwhites have very different experiences in jail or prison, so maybe that’s the implicit issue that the researchers were focusing on. Just an idea (shrug). \*\*

That makes sense. I’ll buy that.

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**Author:** ![ranwashingt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@ranwashingt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ranwashingt)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patronization-of-black-people/153055/24 "2003-02-07T20:03:26Z")

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This is the strangest thread I’ve yet to encounter on the SD message board - although I’ve been just a few months perusing and submitting, I’m sure it gets a whole lot wierder…It is indeed embarressing to witness a 40 or 50 year old talking current urban street, but no more so than William Buckley talking 60’s jive, ( I’ve yet to recover from that). I’d hate to think that any professional would think it neseccary to pidgin his english just to communicate to his subject and audience. Ebonics, though well intentioned, in my view was pure dumb-ass in its premis that dumbing down the language was a valid means to convey proper language usage (and it was geared primarily to black inner city students and I found it dammned condecending) So I guess I vote yes to Capt’s opening post. Not being much of a sports fan I never heard of either gentlemen, but I’d imagine it was a simple case of the interviewer trying to qualify his hippness (and I’m not even sure if hip is still rad). Getting old sucks!

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**Author:** ![Riptor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@Riptor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riptor)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patronization-of-black-people/153055/25 "2003-02-08T05:48:40Z")

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Haha, Dungy

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