And another... i see a lot of black & white people call each other the N Word daily yes... DAILY. But if they see it on TV or in a song or w/e by a certain person white & black people get bent out of shape. I Don't care for that word either, but for people white, black, latino etc. Who claim to hate the word yet i see them say it to each other & other people daily.
When it comes to homophobia, the world has still got a long way to go but it has come a long way for the better since I was in school back in the early 1980s. A lot more people are accepting now than they were then and a lot more people watch what they say now compared to then. I see a lot of kids these days calling each other "homo" and shit like that and I can see that with a lot of them, it's just a generic word like "asshole" or "motherfucker" and with some of them it's not and meant to be personal.
You are much younger than I am so you have grown up in times where it has not nearly been as bad as it used to be. But when I was in school, it was never used as a generic word. Each and every single time it was used, it was directed personally at a person who was either gay or who they believed was gay. The reason for them using the different variations and abbreviations of the word homosexual back then, was so if a teacher overheard the word but didn't hear the full conversation, they could weasel their way out of trouble if she didn't hear the full arguement but just happened to overhear that word that caught her attention. They can explain their way out of trouble with lies if she heard the word "homo" but not the rest of the conversation. She may not believe them, but then it's basically your side of the story against their's so there's nothing she can do about it. But there's no way of weaseling your way out of getting trouble if she heard the word "fag" unless the teacher happened to be a male coach who were mostly homophobic assholes themselves. Coaches should never be teaching classes or study halls.
A lot has changed since then but back then, it was never a generic word and it was always directed personally at a gay person as an abbreviated version and used as a hate word. Times have changed and it irritates me a little when I hear young people using it on each other but I'm not a fanatic about it because I know that a lot of them use it as a generic word, although plenty of them still use it as a personal word. But although times have changed, you never forget the hell you went through back then. It stays with you forever.
Great point... that generational gap is what also makes my son say that he doesn't really need to be that careful in certain parts of where we live because folks aren't as racist anymore. When I was young a black man couldn't be seen holding a white girls hand he would have gotten the living shit beat outta him... now all you see are inter-racial couples.
So my son can go anywhere with his white girlfriend and I can breathe easy that they will have a great time and not run into assholery.
I hear kids saying the stuff you mention as well... I don't let that bother me as long as they only say that mess to each other.
Yeah, interracial couples are much more common now than they used to be. It used to be extremely rare. It's pretty safe these days for the most part because even if people don't like it, they at least keep their stupid mouths shut. But there are still a few folks out there, both white and black, who are stupid and want to stir up shit. You just kinda have to use your instinct on who to stay away from. You can just kinda sense the danger.
I will occasionally use "homo" - but only with people I know well. I mean...I'm pretty sure all have you have seen me say, "That's my homo. " to johnart.
But since I really am a gay man (or so says my main homo), it's okay.
Oh honey, you're our Karen Walker and we love you for it.
I have never called anyone a homo, it's just not something I ever would say or have said, but I DID used to say, "This is retarded" or " that's so gay" even though all my friends are gay and I work in an office that's 95% gay, and no one ever cared (or seemed to) but one time I said to a woman who has adopted two children with major developmental issues, "Oh that is so retarded!" when I was laughing and joking about something being stupid and she laughed along with me and was fine but I felt SO BAD and instantlyl realized how wrong that term was and that I needed to NEVER say that again and I never have. I felt really bad although, I know she knew that at the time I said it I was just young and an idiot, but still, I have really watched what I say since and never say that anymore.
Oh PS. I just bought a bunch of vintage books in a lot and one of the books (from the 70's) is called Mulatto, about an interracial girl= This is horrible, right?
I will occasionally use "homo" - but only with people I know well. I mean...I'm pretty sure all have you have seen me say, "That's my homo. " to johnart.
But since I really am a gay man (or so says my main homo), it's okay.
Oh honey, you're our Karen Walker and we love you for it.
:kiss2:
We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves.
Oh PS. I just bought a bunch of vintage books in a lot and one of the books (from the 70's) is called Mulatto, about an interracial girl= This is horrible, right?
i don't understand
a mulatto/octrune is not offensive
as far as a discription goes,
offensive is halfbreed or breed.
i'm not mr.sensitivity, so i could be wrong
i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT...
STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE...
Oh PS. I just bought a bunch of vintage books in a lot and one of the books (from the 70's) is called Mulatto, about an interracial girl= This is horrible, right?
i don't understand
a mulatto/octrune is not offensive
as far as a discription goes,
offensive is halfbreed or breed.
i'm not mr.sensitivity, so i could be wrong
Although still in use by some, the term mulatto has fallen out of favor, and it may be considered offensive in the United States
I said "redbone" recently. But I considered "yella" to be derogatory. This is the first time I read about the word "mulatto" being offensive.
yeah, even yella was acceptable
just before "black is beautiful" started
to be the rage. i remember when bein called
BLACK could get somebody fucked up,
now evrybody and they momma wanna be
black
Yeah there were a good group of black folks that loved it if you called them yella (unless you were Lena Horne or Eartha Kitt; they prefer to say they were BLACK ) or Negro or mulatto or whatever. Now if you say you prefer Negro, people look at you sideways. Shit I look at folks sideways when they prefer African American. Which I always thought was the contemporary way of saying Negro/culled again. Fuck that, I'm BLACK.
Yeah there were a good group of black folks that loved it if you called them yella (unless you were Lena Horne or Eartha Kitt; they prefer to say they were BLACK ) or Negro or mulatto or whatever. Now if you say you prefer Negro, people look at you sideways. Shit I look at folks sideways when they prefer African American. Which I always thought was the contemporary way of saying Negro/culled again. Fuck that, I'm BLACK.
Yeah there were a good group of black folks that loved it if you called them yella (unless you were Lena Horne or Eartha Kitt; they prefer to say they were BLACK ) or Negro or mulatto or whatever. Now if you say you prefer Negro, people look at you sideways. Shit I look at folks sideways when they prefer African American. Which I always thought was the contemporary way of saying Negro/culled again. Fuck that, I'm BLACK.
YOU DAMN SKIPPY!!!
i don't believe there is any such thing as a 'black' african.
i believe that the blacks in africa have been so deluded
that they have no idea whut they were before roberto africanni
or whuteverthefuckhisname was came along...
that's why i always found it funny them callin us
cottonpickers and nothings
i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT...
STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE...
Yeah there were a good group of black folks that loved it if you called them yella (unless you were Lena Horne or Eartha Kitt; they prefer to say they were BLACK ) or Negro or mulatto or whatever. Now if you say you prefer Negro, people look at you sideways. Shit I look at folks sideways when they prefer African American. Which I always thought was the contemporary way of saying Negro/culled again. Fuck that, I'm BLACK.
YOU DAMN SKIPPY!!!
i don't believe there is any such thing as a 'black' african.
i believe that the blacks in africa have been so deluded
that they have no idea whut they were before roberto africanni
i almost tripped when i first saw this lil clip..,
MY FIRST IMPRESSION WAS
this is whut people think black men are like
holla at a black girl, see a white one, run to her,
knck her up, then retreat from responsibility
by goin back to 'his kind'
but the NEW WHITE GIRL ain't 'bout to have it
ANYMORE
c'mon
it's just a cartoon
When I first saw this, I said, "damn why they had to do it like that?" But I think this is actually more color blind. I took it like the brother chases one woman, gets with another woman (with bigger tits and ass possibly). The man tries to go back to the other woman but then the woman he cheated on comes back pregnant and basically says "you gonna marry me or else."
i almost tripped when i first saw this lil clip..,
MY FIRST IMPRESSION WAS
this is whut people think black men are like
holla at a black girl, see a white one, run to her,
knck her up, then retreat from responsibility
by goin back to 'his kind'
but the NEW WHITE GIRL ain't 'bout to have it
ANYMORE
c'mon
it's just a cartoon
When I first saw this, I said, "damn why they had to do it like that?" But I think this is actually more color blind. I took it like the brother chases one woman, gets with another woman (with bigger tits and ass possibly). The man tries to go back to the other woman but then the woman he cheated on comes back pregnant and basically says "you gonna marry me or else."
yeah well historicly it ain't black girls gettin titty jobs
i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT...
STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE...
When I first saw this, I said, "damn why they had to do it like that?" But I think this is actually more color blind. I took it like the brother chases one woman, gets with another woman (with bigger tits and ass possibly). The man tries to go back to the other woman but then the woman he cheated on comes back pregnant and basically says "you gonna marry me or else."
yeah well historicly it ain't black girls gettin titty jobs
New topic
Printable
Report post to moderator
" to johnart.
I felt really bad although, I know she knew that at the time I said it I was just young and an idiot, but still, I have really watched what I say since and never say that anymore. 
Yeah there were a good group of black folks that loved it if you called them yella (unless you were Lena Horne or Eartha Kitt; they prefer to say they were BLACK 
Can't say you're lying there... 
