"Monkey" a dangerous word
Leftist desperate to find "racism" where there is none. Apparently, it's even racist to mention whites and monkeys in the same breath.
"In a column recently offering his treatise that liberals do not love America, DC Republican Examiner used an unfortunate racial code word: monkey. He said that liberals behave like "scalded monkeys" when accused by their opponents of lacking patriotism. While I am willing to accept that he is merely ignorant rather than racist, I can't simply make that assumption just on good faith.
So I did a little research for him and found this compelling and thorough essay about the term "monkey" and its history as a pejorative directed at African-Americans. In it the author Jackie Jones quotes David Pilgrim, a sociology professor and chief diversity officer at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan and curator of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, ".there are derivations, like porch monkey, and we have tons of images of African-American children being portrayed as if they were monkeys. It's part of a continuum from the past, and I ask myself how could any adult American not know this?"
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The guy actually said "scorched monkeys" but we don't expect accuracy from a Leftist, of course. Hate is all that they are good at.
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Thanks to political correctness, our so-called free speech will soon come to mean "approved" speech. Only those things pre-approved by the Left will be acceptable. This simply proves just how weak, mindless, and totally lacking in will, the American people have become, that they would tolerate not only their language being manipulated, but their right to speak their mind being voided right before their "closed" eyes.
So....to be a Liberal, you must be black?
Whatever happened to calling a squared digging tool a squared digging tool?
I can understand the sensitivity of black people to perjorative terms such as monkey and the like. I was raised in a racist and completely segregated society. Black people were refered to as n*****s and worse. They were made to sit at the back of streetcars and busses. They had seperate drinking fountains. There was but one movie theater in the downtown area that allowed black people to enter; and they were made to go into a seperate entrance and take an elevator to the third balcony where there were no restrooms or concession stands. They were allowed to attend the three-week state fair on only one day-Negro Day. My first experience in sitting in a classroom with black students came during my freshman year in college in 1963. The class was held in an auditorium and there were about 100 students in attendance. The instructor strode to the podium and asked in a loud voice, "Are there any n*****s in the class?" There were two black girls in the last row. The idiot instructor proclaimed, "Oh, yeah, there's a couple back there in the back row where they belong. Stand up so we can see you." They gathered their books and left. Had I been subject to such blatant prejudice and overt racism I would have probably been the most militant member that the Black Panther Party had ever seen.
I guess if I were a mechanic I would be racist if I asked for a monkey wrench.
Evangeline, assuming you're from the South, you may or may not be aware of this.
In the old South, White people, (who BTW were overwhelmingly Democrat, as was the KKK) when saying the word negro made it sound like niggra's, because of their drawl. Over time, and mostly in the North, the word niggra's evolved into the word niggers. It was never intended to be a slur, simply a lack of understanding by northerners of southern speech.
But Evangeline, i'm curious about how you feel hearing todays blacks, especially since they seem to be incapable of getting through a sentence without using that word.
It is always amazing that the first people to connect certain words with offence are always liberals. Old phrases that have been in use for years suddenly become offensive.
Yes, I am from what I suppose one would call the South. I grew up in Dallas, Texas and lived for a time in my ancestral home of New Orleans and Southwest Louisiana. I long ago left and discoveresd that the American South (even the "deep" South) certainly holds no monopoly on racism, prejudice and inequality. I have lived all over the United States and racism is present in all places I have ever lived. I am however, becomming terribly weary of the constant drumbeat of racism! whenever someone of color is defeated in an election, does not get the position for which he applied or the promotion he desired. My father told me a long time ago that if I wanted to be successful in life that I could never claim to be the victim of discrimination because I happened to be a female. He said to do so was as much as admitting that I could not compete against men on an equal basis. My father had very little formal education, but he had a hell of a lot of horse sense. His advice has served me well.
"I could say the same about our society at large."
No Evangeline, you can't say the same thing about the rest of our society, since Whites don't indulge in the traits you listed. They are (for the most part) exclusive to blacks, and many young Whites who think it's chic to look, sound, dress, and act like blacks. They are commonly refered to as "wiggers", and provide blacks with a great deal of laughter.
As for blacks being on "equal" footing, that's not possible since no one is equal to anyone else. That notion is one based in religion and law, but not in fact. We are what we make of ourselves. Nothing more, nothing less.
If blacks see themselves as being somehow less than Whites, it's because their White, bleeding heart, liberal enablers have addicted them to sympathy and handouts. Liberals have deprived blacks of their identity, their self-pride, their sense of worth, their ambition, and their dignity, all in the name of "compassion". If you are truly a compassionate person and want to help people, then help them stand on their own two feet. With all due respect, your heart is obviously in the right place, but it's your sense of logic that needs some work.
P.S. Your father was obviously a very smart man! Being educated and being smart are two very different things.
MONKEY?
WOW!
You HONKIES be dissin the Bros!
Evangeline,
"I think the use of the word "nigger" by anyone is reprehensible, black people included."
How about honky, cracker & whitey. Are these as reprehensible as nigger?
I also grew up in the south (Alabama) and saw firsthand the racism that you write about. But it was when I lived up north that I found out what true racial hatred was all about. I believe that what I saw in Alabama was racism where people had been taught all their life that certain folks had "their place" in society. This was not limited to just along racial lines but also economic lines as well. But in the north, the racism was driven by hatred for those of another race than one's own. I do not hold to the principle of "one knowing one's place". My daughter-in-law is black so my granddaughter is mullato and I would never want her to be held back because of her racial heritage. But, her family on her mother's side treat her differently because she's not "black enough". So who's being the racist now?
I cannot disagree with your assertions, Anonymous; but what I see in our society at large is an almost universal disregard or disrespect for the process of education among our young people. Possibly, the sample I'm seeing is skewed by the fact that all of the young people on whom I base my observations are working at menial, low-paying jobs rather than in school. I am sure that trigonometry, calculus, geography as well as American & world history are still being taught in schools as they were when I was in school. However, when I read that a majority of high school students surveyed cannot locate Egypt on a map or name the sitting vice president of the United States; I fear for our future of our nation. I fail to see that the lowering of educational standards in our public schools is atttributable to race alone.
Yes, what you say about success is true; we are what we make of ourselves. Consider this if you will. Our young people have seen the most revered bedrock institutions of our society fail; marriage, the implicit contract between employer and employee, honesty in government and integrity in business. Do you think that there would have existed a need fifty years ago for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act? Young people today do not see the value of a high school diploma when all it will get them is a job at Wal Mart or Home Depot. Contrast that with what these kids see as success; the neighborhood dope man driving a 750iL BMW, wearing a $300 silk warm-up suit and iced out with diamonds and gold. They physically and cognitively lack the critical thinking skills and any sort of a concept of the future to see that the cost of this kind of success could include a prison sentence or being shot dead by a business competitor. My point is that these changes do not occur in a vacuum and that if we wish to remedy the situation we are in there are many problems we must address.
And, thank you so much for your comment about my father. I had the great fortune of having both of my parents present, interested and participatory in my growing up.
Sticks and Stones will break my bones.
But names will NEVER hurt me.
Being "hurt" by a word is the sign of a person/race with a seriously low self-esteem problem!
Get over it Evangline
Sticks and Stones will break my bones.
But names will NEVER hurt me.
Being "hurt" by a word is the sign of a person/race with a seriously low self-esteem problem!
Get over it Evangline
Get over what?
You obviously prefer a simplistic solution to what is a complex problem. I defy you to find in my comments where I said that we should not use these words.
For your benefit I shall break it down again. I don't like being called honky, cracker or white devil;; therefore I choose not to use words such as nigger, jigaboo and jungle bunny. That is my personal choice. As you are doubtless aware, you are free to do as you wish. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
As far as my logic is concerned; it is just fine. I do not consider it a liability that I have the ability to see both sides of an issue.
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