Our holy grail is empiricism, we can achieve this daily if we choose. Let me suggest to those that feel that ‘boy’ is not a perjorative, that they should test their beliefs and say ‘boy’ in a sentence to an african american. Boy this, boy that, I don’t care except for the feedback it engenders.

So there you are testing out the PCness of saying/exclaiming/demanding ‘boy’ from your black skinned fellow americans.

How did that go? Did you find that it was OK to call adult black Americans ‘boy’?

those of you that say boy is ok, go try it out and offer up your own psychopathy!

…you have enough gentleman in you to beat me senseless…

Beat you senseless? I could run you down w/my powerchair, if you’d find that acceptable ;-p You’ll have to be real still…

MD constricts my movements somewhat…

Oh, BTW, thanks for jogging this thought for Kathy:

Kathy: my wife & I were in line for tickets at the theater, and a worker asked my wife to get the “gimp” out of the way. The guy was a trog., but it didn’t hurt. Why should it — I am not the label and the menu isn’t the meal.

Did you think that it might be because BO is a “wet-behind-the-ears” congress-critter? I have heard well entrenched, southern, senior congress-critters
refer to jr. counterparts as “boy”. Both were white, by the way. Yes, it is a diminutive, but only someone to whom skincolor is a big deal would call for a man’s head over it.

And that still doesn’t answer HOW Dickie read the fellow’s mind to see he meant BO was stupid. THAT was what sent me ballistic. He (Mr.Moron) projects, then expects us to lock-step agree — or we’re racists.

Ya, right. Some of us don’t close our eyes & cower when the racecard is played.

Thanks! I will email you in the near future. The nxt 2.5 wks are quarterly medical re-eval, so I’m over-busy. I’m basically surfing betwn dr.s & tests! ;-} (Well, all the attn - frm pretty nurses - *is* great, though!)

PDA is out of buffer, later!

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You say you are tired of all the “race-this” and “race-that” . . . a point to which I heartily agree. The issue of hyper-race-sensitivity however does not make racially charged remarks less so. As was pointed out by MikeDevx in comment 64, there is a 4 year difference in age between the two parties, both in their forties. I’m currently 37, and I would consider myself a peer to someone who was 41. I would have a great deal of difficulty in accepting them labeling me as “boy” or “young’un” without presuming that there was a large element of dismissiveness and condesension to the term. Throw in the racial element (I’m white, btw), and it’s hard not to see the comment as derogatory.
Was it a casual slip-of-the-tounge? Possibly — but a damn foolish one for a public figure. Part of his job is to be careful in his language unfortunately, and he failed utterly in this instance.

My whole problem with this N-word manure is the shrinking of the language, and the removal of any term that allows discussion of the Left’s weaknesses.

WhenI first learned I was a Conservative, I never missed listening to Rush. My schedule no longer permits this, but I still occasionally catch a broadcast, (I’m too cheap to buy-in for his archives {grin}). Recently he spoke on this very subject, along w/Glenn Beck & others. I find it interesting that “Conservatives” here do a Koz-shoutdown of people who want to explore the idea — by yelling “anyone knows - so WTF…”. Well sir, perhaps not everyone is as “evolved” as the good people here are. Shouldn’t you help them along, by poking holes in their logic instead of simple editing their comments or shouting them down?

Well, my turn in que has come. I’ll be back…

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Your comments, above the the “Mommasita” one were thoughtful, and of the type I originally expected at a site that calls itself “Rightwing”.

In order to get to where I can enter comments, I had to leave your comment. When I get back to my PC I would like to talk abt it.

One thing stands out though. My wife, while hot-tempered, used that slur in order to make a point.

Is it alrght for her to use it? It was alright for black2black discourse to contain the N-word. If I understand your argument, it isn’t racist if that race uses it. I did not use it, I mearly directly quoted my wife. Why then did Mr. Moron brand me a racist - unless that was projection.

As for me, my wife, my sister-in-law, (married wife’s brother, & she *is* black), WE are tired of “race-this & race-that”! Content of chracter is ALL that matters! I don’t know what the skin color of the gate guard at Falcon Courts North at this moment is, and I really don’t care! All I care abt is that he earned his rank, and he has all the tools needed for his job. (Note; FCN is the McGuire AFB residential housing area. I mention this so that Dickie can unnerstan my comments. I also eschewed multisyllabic words to help with that {grin}).

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A point I tried to make was that *you* always have the choice of taking offense. What I see, and my examples above show, is that the black community - at least the loudest portion - look for offense. It requires one to always assume the worst about those around them.

If someone calls me a name, I suspend judgement until I know enough to make an accurate call on the matter. I don’t *immediately* assume bad intent.

The whole line of thought of people of your & Mr. Moron’s stripe is that people are innately racist, and so any comment that confirms that, no matter how innocent, is pounced on as proof.

If racism is so prevalent, how do native 1st & 2nd generation African excell and end up rich in so very few years? Did slavery somehow leave a mark that persists beyond the generations? If so, how then did people like Sowell, Rice, & Thomas escape?

The point being, of course - careful I’ve skipped a few mental steps, so I know this will be hard for most here to follow - that what people call each other in the way of “bad name” has NO bearing on how he conduct our lives or fare in this country.

Ifvit did, then how did those blacks who rose to great societal hights pre-PC, (or even pre-1960’s era reforms) do so? Are you saying that those entreped souls weren’t called the “N”word? Or are you saying they were given all they had by the whites?

It has *NEVER* mattered what you’re called, just what *YOU* do.

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Has anyone here done much surfing using a Blackberry? Or even a Windows PDA? Is it any better? I’ve been doing using the Lifedrive for a year on the internet, and I am abt fed-up w/the “minor” flaws of the platform.

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The ruler here simply gets jollies lording it over any who randomly draw his ire.

I hope *this* post isn’t beyond people’s understanding.

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