What's Ray saying?

What's Ray saying?

You know, there's one thing that irritates me, and that it's when people outside our culture

or people outside any culture, I guess, when they start using these archaic and

stereotypical terms that are dated or out of place, that sound odd. And it seems like people

will do this to see if they can show that they can identify with your group or just over familiarity, you know.

I don't know.

Sometimes it seems like the way we talk to animals or babies or someone who doesn't know

how to speak English.

I mean, what do you think about that?

I mean, it happens in all kinds of situations.

I think we see, you know,

when we see an older, non-person of color, what's up, my man? Like, why are you talking to us like that?

What do you think they're doing? They just want to identify or they think it's simple to know us,

us being in this case, black Americans. I think most people giving them the

benefit of the doubt are trying too hard. They want to say, hey, I'm not racist. Look at me,

but it comes across real jacked up. So what's appropriate in terms of politeness and

not trying to be disrespectful at the same time?

You mean talking like regular people? I think they missed the point that the connection is in the

humanity not trying to take on a culture, not trying to appropriate language and mannerisms, but they don't get it.

So how familiar is too familiar? If you ain't inside the family, you shouldn't be using inside

language. Like, I mean, fake familiarity is offensive. So when should you be blunt? I mean, fake familiarity, it's offensive. Oh, so when should you be blot?

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