Help Me With My Racial Potty-Mouth
by neoeconomist
Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 03:41:21 PM PDT
As a child of the seventies I grew up thinking "Shuckin' and a Jivin'" was a clever lyric from a sitcom theme. A sitcom about black people on network TV - back when you had sitcoms about black people on network TV. Just this week I've found out that is an offensive phrase. Moreover, whenever I may have used it in casual conversation (not often, but I must confess to using it often enough to remember that I had) I was being insensitive in my ignorance.
I really am sorry...I'll try to go on.
When I remarked to someone that there seemed to be an "arbitrary" line that bumbling white-male idiots like me inadvertantly cross I was informed by a helpful commenter that it was offensive to the extreme to insinuate that the line was "arbitrary". That being the case I would love some help defining what this very "non-arbitrary" line...
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