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Let's talk about the word "boy" in the South....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Well, howdy there, Internet People people it's about again so today we're going to do

0:27.0

another little linguistics lesson on the southern United States and how we talk

0:31.4

down here we're to go through a word, we're

0:35.3

going to talk about a word, and go through the appropriate and inappropriate uses

0:39.8

of that word. Today we are going to talk about the word boy. My boyfriend and I were

0:49.1

watching your episode on masks in schools when you said pull up your pants boy he said you could be the

0:56.9

evil villain in any movie about the South. I'm not from here and he often tells me words mean things they don't as a joke.

1:07.5

He told me the word boy was very racist. I find this hard to believe that such a simple word could

1:16.2

become racist. Is the word racist and if it is how did it become racist?

1:26.2

So the answer to this, the simple answer to this is yes.

1:29.7

Yeah, it's racist. The word boy when spoken to a black person in the southern United States

1:39.3

especially I would imagine this is kind of true everywhere but especially in the southern

1:44.8

United States is racist. It can be more racist with tone but it's pretty much always racist.

1:57.6

Now in the South, you could also say

2:00.7

Old Boy, which is, oh, L, A, It's old boy. O. L. D. It's old boy, but we don't pronounce the D.

2:08.0

And that just means the person down the road.

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