You black up today bad bwai?

( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 20:43, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

I delivered some FRESH RHYMES today.
Did you see them?

Alt answer: 'Mammmmy!'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 20:44, Reply)

Haha!
How I love you, how I love you, my dear old mammy.
( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 20:47, Reply)

Did you know
that Lenny Henry was in his younger days on the Black & White Minstrel Show?

Talk about an 'Uncle Tom muthafucka' or what?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 20:49, Reply)

I did yes.
We all make mistakes when we are young.
( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 20:50, Reply)

Were you in the National Front as well then?
Thank God. I thought it was just me.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 20:53, Reply)

Noooooooo!
I remember the first black family on my council estate and I remember playing with the daughter's black dolls and being in awe of them.
( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 20:55, Reply)

My darling mother, bless her liberal socks,
never quite caught up with the latest term for 'African-English'. When she was a pickney 'black' was bad so you said 'coloured' because 'they're often more of a brown, aren't they?' Then the Black Power movement fucked that up and she's been a bit stumped ever since.

She once told me she'd seen 'a gorgeous negro in the high street'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:13, Reply)

Surely it's just black?

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:42, Reply)

It is now.
But in the past that was an insult.
( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:45, Reply)

strange
I can see how it would be a minefield.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:47, Reply)

You racist.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:55, Reply)

Now it is, sure.
But before 'Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud' etc., it was taken as derogatory. The Black Power chaps reclaimed it, like the benders did with 'queer'.

But only few years ago people started saying 'people of colour' in the US, just to add to the PC minefield.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:48, Reply)

I'd have thought
'people of colour' was offensive now :S

Though I still don't get 'African-Americans' it seems un-necessarily divisive
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:50, Reply)

Halle Berry used it (people of 'color')
at some shitty fucking awards ceremony, I recall.

It's hard to keep up, especially if you're the kind of chap who calls a spade a spade, what?

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:57, Reply)

names are sufficient
*had that beaten in*
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 22:08, Reply)