Comments on myblackfriendsays.com: Follow-up Fridays

JTJ -- this is exactly why I have always found whi...

2009-10-19T11:48:52.753-06:00

JTJ -- this is exactly why I have always found white trash offensive. As a white person, I used to think that "white trash" was a kind of funny, if mean description. But then I began to think nore deeply about it...and it occurred to me that needing to use the word "white" to modify trash meant that the user felt they had to be explicit because using the word trash without

I've always been uncomfortable with the term "whit...

2009-06-03T11:00:10.288-06:00

I've always been uncomfortable with the term "white trash" because I actually find it has racist overtones. It's taking white--the acceptable norm (obviously meaning in the mind of the speaker, not my own)--and attaching it to something negative: trash. To me, this suggests that there's an assumption of less than in regard to non-white things. To denegrate a POC, people don&

I agree with your statement that calling someone w...

2009-05-09T20:18:00.000-06:00

I agree with your statement that calling someone white trash is unacceptable, but I disagree with the rest of your description. I'm more with Aaron-- it's used more often as a disapproval of behavior. Someone who chooses (or is assumed to choose) a life of no job, welfare, early and often pregnancy out of wedlock, drugs, alcoholism, beating their wife while wearing a wife beater, etc. is more

Sorry for not picking up on the sarcasm... usually...

2009-05-09T12:11:00.000-06:00

Sorry for not picking up on the sarcasm... usually my sarcasm meter is spot-on, but sometimes written text can make things a bit difficult! I have heard the phrase, "sometimes you've gotta laugh to keep from crying", and it's definitely apart of my view on the world, because there is a lot of messed-up stuff going on today.

"I think that if we could move past our pesky insecurites and

BLACK AMERICA AND THE N-WORD: http://www.youtube....

2009-05-09T04:43:00.000-06:00

BLACK AMERICA AND THE N-WORD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP2U0jmZjec

"The word 'white trash' is just as bad as the word...

2009-05-08T21:58:00.000-06:00

"The word 'white trash' is just as bad as the word 'nigger.'"

Um. No.