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Fantastic Speech
POSTED BY: Hjermsted
UPDATED: Saturday, August 7, 2004 00:54
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Friday, August 6, 2004 10:57 PM
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Forrestwolf wrote:
Friday, August 06, 2004 10:36
Naw. I'm kinda imagining a couple of old...well...geezers :) talking to each other at the Convention, or maybe on their porch..."That boy's gonna be president one day" - that sort of thing. Of course he's a grown man, but he does have a young, vibrant look to him.
Go Obama :)
- Forrestwolf
No Forrestwolf, I think Geezer was pointing out that back many years ago, a black male slave was often addressed as "boy". In my lifetime (i.e. late 60's - early 70's) calling a black man a "boy" was an insult on the same level as using the proverbial "N"-word.
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."
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Saturday, August 7, 2004 12:21 AM
Kerry.. 
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Saturday, August 7, 2004 12:54 AM
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Originally posted by DarkJester:
No Forrestwolf, I think Geezer was pointing out that back many years ago, a black male slave was often addressed as "boy". In my lifetime (i.e. late 60's - early 70's) calling a black man a "boy" was an insult on the same level as using the proverbial "N"-word.
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."
Got it first time. Still an insult. Walk up to Obama (a fine man IMHO, BTW) and call him "boy", and you'd probably find out how bad.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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