Comments on: Randi Rhodes Can STILL Kiss My Black Ass!!!

By: WMCB

WMCB — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:52:19 +0000

I’m white, but I understand the language thing, I think. I am educated. I am articulate. I have a quite extensive vocabulary, and wrote for a newspaper at one point in my life. I can write and speak formally all the day long, and am known for being a grammar snob in formal correspondence and in critiquing writing. I very much appreciate the beauty of good language, and its purpose and artfulness.

HOWEVER. I grew up poor white trash in the south. If you get me together with my sisters? Sweetie, things get loose and fast. The “gees” start dropping of the ends of words, and there is a lot of “y’all”, a lot of “Oh, honey, let me tell you sumpin’ ’bout that right there”, a lot of “she ain’t got no business goin’ over there and gettin’ up in that mess…” There are some “Lawd have mercy”s and a few “sheeee-yut”s. (The word shit has TWO syllables in the south.)

It is the easy, soft cadence of my childhood. It is comfort language, much the same as comfort food. It’s a way of connecting with my sisters and family, not ignorance. And a lot of it is colorful and expressive in a way that my “normal” speech is not.

By: Sugar

Sugar — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:26:12 +0000

Lisa, I sure hope that was a rebroadcast that you heard today.

By: Ron from S.F.

Ron from S.F. — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:09:57 +0000

Randi Rhodes has gone too far. Taking on Hillary is one thing. But now she is attacking Oprah too! How dumb can you get? Her copy of “How to win friends and influence people” should be recalled.

By: tngirl

tngirl — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:57:01 +0000

Sugar, I agree. Too many people have grown up de facto segregated by either race or class or both so they never get to see outside their own social circles. You know how bad the media is but what you don’t realize until you make it out of the barriers is how bad regular people can be without them even realizing it. There is hope like others have said, my generation, thanks to Dr. King and others, grew up free from the worst forms of racism and prejudice — and thank God — free from carrying the burden of hate in our souls. With that gift we can unite and talk and work to stamp out the remnants of racism rest of our “isms” in a way that could never happen before.

By: Uppity

Uppity — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:50:59 +0000

Hahahah. Yeah I’m a Garlic Nose too, sister. It’s a blast sometimes isn’t it?

By: Uppity

Uppity — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:48:10 +0000

I think we all wear them at times. Adapt Adapt Adapt. It’s all about audience. Then when we get home, it’s all about who we are.

By: Lisa in FL

Lisa in FL — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:46:18 +0000

Why is RR back on the air?? I hope I’m not mistaken since she’s supposed to be suspended indefinately. I turned the radio on WJNO in Palm Beach, FL this afternoon and there she was talking about her “vacation” (much sarcasm). Has anyone heard anything about this?

By: Sugar

Sugar — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:45:04 +0000

Well, hope springs eternal…

By: Sugar

Sugar — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:43:24 +0000

Well, Gloria you obviously haven’t listened to the clip in SusanUnPC’s post because she clearly says that Oprah was faking it. So, you are wrong.

By: Sugar

Sugar — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:41:43 +0000

tngirl, it’s an amazing phenomenon that is so often unspoken, but what I’m finding even more interesting is the fact that a number of white commenters have mentioned that they wear a mask of their own! We all have so much we could learn from one another.