The Term Gay Is Similar To The N-Word, But Not How You Think
The Michael Berry Show
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🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry Show. |
| 0:01.9 | There's an interesting development in terminology. |
| 0:05.7 | And you take the term black |
| 0:09.8 | that has been sort of settled upon |
| 0:14.8 | as people of original African descent. |
| 0:18.9 | And this is kind of a broad definition. |
| 0:21.7 | That term has been negro, |
| 0:23.6 | which of course was bastardized to the inward |
| 0:26.0 | that many people still use in rap songs to this day. |
| 0:29.2 | And then some put an A on the end instead of an ER |
| 0:32.0 | and somehow that's okay, |
| 0:33.6 | but don't you do it, we can do it, we've owned it, okay. |
| 0:37.2 | So the term gay, which always meant happy, |
| 0:41.8 | there are songs from the 20s of the gay times |
| 0:46.3 | that people were living in, |
| 0:47.5 | and gayity was happiness and joyfulness and frivolity |
| 0:52.5 | and then that became homosexual. |
| 0:56.9 | And homosexual was used for a while, |
| 0:59.4 | but it's a long word, it's five syllables |
| 1:03.9 | and it always makes someone sound |
| 1:07.2 | a touch repressed when they say it. |
| 1:10.2 | And then that developed into gay |
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