And don’t forget those other famous soul brothers
from the sixties. The Archies!
Sugar sugar. Ah honey honey.
You are my candy girl…
Sugar tits indeed! :rolleyes:
I have never heard “sugar tits” as having any racial overtones, and cannot find any cites on the internet indicating as such. So far, it seems Spartydog is the only person who thinks this. “Sugar tits,” when used as an insult, is purely sexist. Even the definitions at urbandictionary.com have no mention of race in them. When I think “sugar tits,” I think of guys like The Jerky Boyz using slightly outmoded slang.
So I ask for an R&B tune that uses ‘sugar tits’ in a racist manner and you quote the Rolling Stones? Are you sure you kow what R&B is?
If she were black and if Mel had called her ‘brown sugar’ you might have a case.
I am asking you to explain how ‘sugar tits’ can be racist. You are he one who made the assertion. You are the one who has yet to provide a scrap of evidence.
I care because you seem to be fostering ignorance.
It’s actually a term of endearment.
I don’t care if the sergeant in question was black as the ace of spades or as white as the pure driven snow, “sugar tits” is NOT and never has been racist. As a born again Southern boy, my experience tells me that a white woman is as likely to slap hell out of me as a black woman if I called either of them “sugar tits.” The slap would be administered as a rebuke for the lack of respect “sugar tits” showed, but it wouldn’t be because it was racist. I wish we could rebuild the levees; the ignorance is overflowing them.
People, people, don’t you see? If we turn on each other the Mel-orrists win!
Photos, from the night he was arrested:
From the looks of it, he probably called these girls “sugar tits” too, but they’re almost all white (one asian).
p.s. Only 0.12 BAC? I thought he was hammered. What a lightweight.
He’s holding a bottle of Stella Artois in one of those pictures.
Even if, based solely on the evidence of a Rolling Stones’ song, we were to concede that “Brown Sugar” = black woman, that hardly leads to the conclusion that every phrase including the word “sugar” = black woman, so that, by extension, “sugar tits,” which contains the word “sugar,” must be racist. I mean, that’s some of the most tortured reasoning I’ve ever heard. Heck, in that cinematic classice Overboard, Goldie Hawn calls Kurt Russell “Sugar Lips” – guess she must have thought he was a black woman. :rolleyes: I’ve been called “sugar” in the past and I’m as white as wonderbread.
“Sugar Tits” is a comment on her gender, not her race. And like I said in another thread, the proper response is “That’s Officer Sugar Tits to you.”
So when Manitoban rockers sing about “No sugar tonight in my tea”, they’re not really lamenting the absence of black women in their marihuana cigarettes? Who’da thunk it?
I hate to interrupt such a fascinating and relevant debate with a different question, but:
Bolding mine. Anybody want to start a pool on how long it takes for this videotape to become public?
Tis’ true. You’ll also note that the term “baby” in addressing someone is used more commonly (but not exclusively) in the black culture to address someone instead of using their name. As a listener of R&B music nad having paid attention to black speech idioms for many years I am aware of this. I mean we all know that if he would have said, “Hey baby,” well then he might as well have called her Aunt Jemima!
Definition #2 of “sugar tits”, from www.urbandictionary.com:
Any sufficiently attractive female law officer dispatched to oppress good Christian men by her masters within the international conspiracy of invisible Zionist superjews.
BTW, a “sugar tit” is a pre-curser to the pacifier. It was a small bundle of cloth filled with a mixture of melted butter and sugar for a baby to suck on.
That blows the “But I was DRUNK!” plea right out of the water.
I’m going to call Bravo Sierra on that video. That was obviously Tom Cruise.
Interesting, so why would they have to specify Brown sugar if it is such a common use?
Anecdotally, I have lived in the south all of my adult life and have only ever heard two people use the term “Sugar Tits” - both were white and both were refering to white women.
A quick glance through a few pages of a Google search find “Sugar Tits” & lyrics only hitting on an Insane Clown Posse song.
I believe the original reports said that the police officer had an audio tape of the entire encounter. So there probably isn’t any videotape of this until the officer & drunk Mel arrive at the police station.
But since the part where he called the female officer “sugar tits” was at the station, that part may well be on videotape.
I got your Brown Sugar right here. It seems to be a term of respect. At least, it is if you know what’s good for you.