I made my annual visit to see my mother yesterday. She lives a couple of miles from me but for reasons I don't ever interact with that part of my family. Anyway, we were sitting on the back porch with my sisters and a couple of cousins and for some weird reason #BLM came up. Now, my family is very apolitical so that this topic came up shocked me a little bit. But then my mother actually for really real in real life says, "A black person told me, now remember this is a black person saying it, that you have black people and you have niggers."
Quote from: ksen on July 18, 2016, 06:25:47 AMI made my annual visit to see my mother yesterday. She lives a couple of miles from me but for reasons I don't ever interact with that part of my family. Anyway, we were sitting on the back porch with my sisters and a couple of cousins and for some weird reason #BLM came up. Now, my family is very apolitical so that this topic came up shocked me a little bit. But then my mother actually for really real in real life says, "A black person told me, now remember this is a black person saying it, that you have black people and you have niggers."Is THIS what she was describing?Because, if so, I have a fairly simple answer to her concerns.
I think she was describing the ones that don't act white.
And I could give you an anecdote from a bloke in Philadelphia, which is that in his experience it was common for younger black people there to use the word without even considering it to be edgy, and without even referring to other black people.
Quote from: ksen on July 18, 2016, 07:13:40 AMI think she was describing the ones that don't act white.What does this mean? I've heard a lot of 'definitions' about it but nothing that could be termed "main stream" or "generic".
Quote from: MikeS on July 18, 2016, 07:23:52 AMQuote from: ksen on July 18, 2016, 07:13:40 AMI think she was describing the ones that don't act white.What does this mean? I've heard a lot of 'definitions' about it but nothing that could be termed "main stream" or "generic".It means that sometime when I wasn't looking my mom seems to have turned into a racist asshole . . . along with the rest of my family.
Keen, your mom is what, 75-80? What she thinks is not indicative of where the country is headed.
Quote from: Testy Calibrate on July 18, 2016, 10:58:09 AMKeen, your mom is what, 75-80? What she thinks is not indicative of where the country is headed.67