If you know the history behind white men calling black men “BOY” then you know why black men today don’t like being called that and why it’s viewed as racist.
If you don’t know then you should probably sit this one out.
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If you know the history behind white men calling black men “BOY” then you know why black men today don’t like being called that and why it’s viewed as racist.
If you don’t know then you should probably sit this one out.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | February 12, 2024 3:06 PM |
OP, fuck off, BOY.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 10, 2024 4:38 PM |
He needs to avoid Cork in Ireland. Every sentence directed to a man, regardless of age, finishes with 'boy'.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 10, 2024 4:43 PM |
R2 that is Ireland. This is America. American History has nothing to do with Ireland.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 10, 2024 4:44 PM |
R1 A. You sound stupid.
B. I’m not even black.
You’re a fool.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 10, 2024 4:45 PM |
Indeed not, R3. But saying boy to a Black man is likely to elicit the response of OP's story anywhere. I've witnessed it once in the UK.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 10, 2024 4:46 PM |
So many of the overseers in the early days of slavery were of Irish descent that maybe there IS a connection…
by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 10, 2024 4:59 PM |
I have no problem with it as long as they will also throw black fans out for calling a white player cracker, whitey, honky, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 10, 2024 5:00 PM |
This an instance when a GOOD ass whoopin' is justified.
Fuck-face is fortunate that "Boy" was at work & wasn't interested in fucking up ĥis money, reputation, or the game.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 10, 2024 5:04 PM |
R6 totally made up and completely incorrect. You pulled that one right out of your ass!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 10, 2024 5:14 PM |
Fuck off r9. I think the connection is there. And I am black before you ask.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 10, 2024 5:19 PM |
The “boy” remark was . . . ill-advised.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 10, 2024 5:19 PM |
Not R6 here R9, but some comment on Irish overseers, but can't imagine there were that many?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 10, 2024 5:20 PM |
R10 now you’re black?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 10, 2024 5:23 PM |
The Irish were not the ones here owning slaves. The Irish themselves were not here. Very few Irish people were in the USA at that time.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 10, 2024 5:24 PM |
R6 isn't wrong, though, R9.
At that point in history, Irish were treated like dirt in America. However, they did make their way into the American south, and did work as "paid security", aka plantation overseers, jail wardens and bounty hunters tracking down and recovering/kidnapping runaway slaves, especially in the American northeast.
Eventually, they (the Irish bounty hunters and paid security) organized, which led to police forces, and eventually, police unions.
This all well known American history, and not some conspiracy theory.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 10, 2024 5:25 PM |
This is why I've learned to address everyone as "gurrrlll..."
by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 10, 2024 5:26 PM |
Some doughy big-mouth tough-guy got what he deserved.
I'm so tired of these stupid middle-aged white men.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 10, 2024 5:29 PM |
R14 I beg to differ/
by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 10, 2024 5:34 PM |
R15 false.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | February 10, 2024 5:35 PM |
That man is in his 30s.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | February 10, 2024 5:36 PM |
What part is false, R19?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | February 10, 2024 5:36 PM |
Anyone who calls a Black man ‘boy’ deserves whatever he gets.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | February 10, 2024 5:37 PM |
It's the kind of thing I might say to any guy if I was popping off because I forget that it's racially coded and not just interpreted as a general term of disrespect like bitch or pussy.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | February 10, 2024 5:38 PM |
Redneck
by Anonymous | reply 24 | February 10, 2024 5:40 PM |
In this day, to have that word in your weaponry of insults, for a guy his age. Why he felt the compulsion to bring race into it. Very telling of his character.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | February 10, 2024 5:44 PM |
Really, r23? Calling any man “boy” has never been part of my repertoire.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | February 10, 2024 5:58 PM |
Insecure people with complexes are so tiresome.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | February 10, 2024 6:07 PM |
Everything is racist.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | February 10, 2024 6:12 PM |
R26 Yeah but I'm ghetto trash, are you?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | February 10, 2024 6:14 PM |
R15 you are inventing bullshit. Most Irish catholics came to US after the civil war and they lived in industrial cities on the North east.
Cathilics were consider inferior and after blacks and Jews they were the least revered group by KKK.
There might have been some protestants from Ireland that were slave owners, but they were not ethnic Irish, they were British settlers in Ireland.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | February 10, 2024 6:17 PM |
As for the black queen at R10, Irish were not slave owners, but you know whose great grandfather was slave owner or foreman on plantation? Yours.I am not being mean it is just the fact. Most white Americans are not related to slave owners, only some wealthy families. But most black people are. So, all this anti white hatred is stupid snd irational. You are hating innocent people for something your own flesh and blood have done.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | February 10, 2024 6:23 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 32 | February 10, 2024 6:24 PM |
That's why anyone who even jokingly uses the word "fag" should be throat punched.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | February 10, 2024 6:25 PM |
R30 he’s 100% just making shit up without knowing. Like I said upthread, the Irish weren’t even here during slavery. They came post civil war.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | February 10, 2024 6:53 PM |
I'm not R30, but can't you guys do a simple google search, R34?
"The Northern states remained loyal to the United States government, which was led by President Abraham Lincoln. Seven Union generals were Irish-born while an estimated 150,000 Irish-Americans fought for the Union during the war."
by Anonymous | reply 35 | February 10, 2024 6:57 PM |
"Irish-American Catholics served on both sides of the American Civil War (1861–1865) as officers, volunteers and draftees. Immigration due to the Irish Great Famine (1845–1852) had provided many thousands of men as potential recruits although issues of race, religion, pacifism and personal allegiance created some resistance to service."
by Anonymous | reply 36 | February 10, 2024 6:58 PM |
Black people are such temperamental drama queens and they wonder why people avoid them...
by Anonymous | reply 37 | February 10, 2024 6:58 PM |
Scarlett O'Hara would like a word with some of you.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | February 10, 2024 8:10 PM |
The South had way more Protestant Irish and Scotch Irish.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | February 10, 2024 8:26 PM |
R38 sorry to break your illusions, but Scarlett O' Hara is a fictional character. So is Santa Clause.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | February 10, 2024 8:41 PM |
Yeah, you really sound like a great judge of character, R37. Assholes like you are the real temperamental drama queens. Its much easier to just bitch and post racist comments about other groups of people than accept your own misery and ignorance.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | February 10, 2024 8:57 PM |
Fan guy is a MAGA
by Anonymous | reply 42 | February 10, 2024 9:13 PM |
R41 you only spill slurs, but said no word about his argument. Is what he said true or not.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | February 10, 2024 9:17 PM |
This is EXACTLY why when I’m President we’ll all speak ESPERANTO
by Anonymous | reply 44 | February 10, 2024 9:22 PM |
What a fragile ego to be debased by a stranger calling you boy. Some black men need to grow a set and be a little more resilient.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | February 10, 2024 9:24 PM |
R45 what a pitiful shit stirrer you are. You'd be the first one to run if you were in that situation.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | February 10, 2024 10:42 PM |
R45 or white men can stop with the micro aggressions and throwing out words in a way that implies a lot.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | February 10, 2024 10:45 PM |
Imagine the entitlement, or stupidity to hurl out than insult in a huge crowd of onlookers.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | February 10, 2024 10:48 PM |
I wouldn't even call it a microaggression. It was deliberate aggression, and it's clear from the way he deployed it that he was fully aware of what he was doing by using that word.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | February 10, 2024 10:48 PM |
that insult ^^^
by Anonymous | reply 50 | February 10, 2024 10:48 PM |
[quote] Everything is racist.
Maybe not, R28, but calling a Black man "boy" is.
Does it cramp your style to not be able to call Black men "boy"?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | February 12, 2024 2:48 PM |
R51 how stupid, isn't it a compliment when someone calls you a boy and you are not exactly a spring chicken.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | February 12, 2024 3:02 PM |
No r52 and you know it isn’t. Not in this case.
And you know that too.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | February 12, 2024 3:04 PM |
R52, You might want to consider growing up.
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