TT112OldTimer, sam.....
Posted By: linda on 2008-07-19
In Reply to: might as well tell you the other leg of - linda
glad you like it, sam, although we tend to talk Texan sometimes!. and TT112OldTimer, you brought up something I have thought about before, but in regard to my husband's family. They now has two books published on their leinage with some interesting stories handed down and even a few pictures. They also share some of the same beginnings as my family, and now yours, so you have to wonder if they all knew of one another back when they were in NC or Maryland. It took 200 years to make a marriage connection? was it hatfields and McCoys, or what!? Same applies to two legs of my family, all originally from the same area. In the meantime, I am chasing Mother around with a bucket, the most surprising nuggets of info come out at the most unexpected times! They all start the same way, "well, you know, Papa's family had a cross burned in their yard" was a new one just a couple of years ago. WHAT?, I said, no I didn't know. WHY? Because being Swedish, they thought it was fair to pay the black field hands the same amount as they would a white. All I could say was it looks like somebody would have mentioned this before now; I'm 60+ and just now hearing this! oh,well, I thought you knew. Good grief, what else is rattling around up there. Turns out a few more things, still working on it. Good to talk with both of you. L
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RE: N-word 4 TT112OldTimer. Cracks me up.
Never hurts to inject a little humor into such a serious subject. Loved the graphics of the 50 jacked-up cars in the front yard.
Think the capital “B” came about sometime in the early 80s in the aftermath the B/black-awareness phase of the civil rights movement, i.e., “I’m B/black and I’m proud,” and/or “B/black is b/Beautiful.” Seems like w/Whites were given permission to use it as a socially acceptable replacement for the N/n-word. As I recall, the capital “B” confers the same status vis a vis the capital “C” as in cracker, oops whitey, uh make that honky, er I mean C/caucasian.
Maybe we could start a movement to introduce the C/c-word into the dictionary, all things being equal. We might get by with adding the H/h-word to replace h/Honky in rap so as not to offend. Broadcast media could use them to replace the bleeps during prime time.
The first QA was probably a bleeding-heart liberal who was showing uncommon QA sensitivity and the second one was probably a bigot who didn’t get her email from the first. Should have run this by the PC Editor before I posted it just to make sure I covered all the bases.
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