favorite RACIAL EUPHEMISMs

[jaxvid]

I think from the get go we should've distinguished which euphemism applied to what race, Jaxvid. Your OP didn't make that clear.

John

Well I did start the post in October of 2004. We were much more innocent in those days.

I saw throwback and immediately thought of "old school" used exclusively for whites. Reminds me of a story I mentioned on site before.... There was a kid that was playing running back in a nearly all black flag football league and every time he touched the ball his black teammates would howl "Old school! old school!". It became his nickname and the only thing his coach ever called him.

His father came up to me one day and asked: "Why do they call him that?"

"Cause he's white" I told him. He blinked, thought about it and eventually the light went on. (I think).

Whites don't carry the ball anymore, so when they do it's a reminder of the "old days". He was a faily clueless white guy that probably never thinks of "race", even when surrounded by people that think of nothing else.

 

[foreverfree]

I think from the get go we should've distinguished which euphemism applied to what race, Jaxvid. Your OP didn't make that clear.

John

Well I did start the post in October of 2004. We were much more innocent in those days.

Yeah, I noticed that after posting. I was in the middle of getting dressed for work. My bad.

John

 

[DixieDestroyer]

Jaxvid, good story partner! I've had similar experiences playing highschool & rec-league hoops in the past. I played on one team with some co-workers & the "bruthas" loved to call me "Big Country" (not so much because I looked like former NBA center Bryant Reeves, but because I'm a big white guy...who happens to be a countryboy as well

). In highschool, some of the bruthas called me "Vanilla Gorilla"...although I like to think I was more of an "albino" King Kong on the gridiron & hardwood!

Edited by: DixieDestroyer

 

[White Mike]

"Big Country" I had the same name when I played rec league BB. It was a white coach who gave me the name though. I guess it was because I dominated the smaller (and blacker) affleates.

 

[Gi-15]

high-effort, high-character guy. all-out, lunch pail guy. aaron kampman.

 

[bigwig]

" lacks elite speed"

 

[Gi-15]

"the great white hope" this one gets me really angry

 

[cutty]

("the great white hope" this one gets me really angry)"


oh man, how did anyone not mention that til now? how about:


brown bagger - golden boy - pocket passer

 

[guest301]

used to describe any undeniably fast white guy..."good straight line speed"

 

[freedom1]

In a way, the terms they use are true, e.g., "rumbling down the field," because they don't let the fastest white guys get in, and the few that do, like Curtis on the Rams never get the fricking ball.

 

[Ground Fighter]

In a way, the terms they use are true, e.g., "rumbling down the field," because they don't let the fastest white guys get in, and the few that do, like Curtis on the Rams never get the fricking ball.

Kevin Curtis is like a little monkey on the field...he's all over the place. Now, imagine what would become of my career as a sportscaster if I said that same "comment of praise" about a black player instead.

It'd be a "burger flippin'" time for me.

 

[GWTJ]

Here is a description of a basketball player by Sports Illustrated in last weeks issue:

"Now the 6'3" do-everything guard had had enough. Dribbling just outside the 3-point arc, he deked past one defender with an NBA-grade crossover. With two more dribbles he slalomed by another opponent, a "help" defender who provided nothing of the sort. Eight feet from the basket, he took flight and achieved cruising altitude. His right arm cocked as he started his descent, and he deposited the ball in the hoop with such violence that the entire fixture swayed."

Who is S.I. talking about? Maybe Jordan when he was at UNC. Nope. Maybe Dwayne Wade? No.
Try Eric Gordon of North Central High in Indianapolis, Indiana. And no description of his color is necessary.

 

[reclaimsocal]

I was watching a fight last night between some blonde Irish guy named Mickey Ward and some Black guy, whose name slips me. Well, I turned it on in the 9th and Ward puts together a combo and knocks the black guy down to his knee with a body shot. Then in the 10th round Ward is in my opinion cleaning the Black guys clock, but all the announcers keep saying is "He's not going in close enough, <Black guys name> has the little bit of room he needs". Of course they are implying that a White guy can't stand toe to toe and defeat a Black guy, he has to resort to clutching and grabbing. Then they are all hooting and hollering when the fight is over, giving their scores as a draw, luckily the judges all saw it as a overwhelming victory for Ward.

Not sure if there is a euphimism in there, but the idea of the Black being the superior puncher and the white needing to scrap is a big one that bothers me.

 

[Tired old White]

Reclaim SOCAL. This is the Norm. I record a lot of fights to watch later ( I also like to watch some parts in slow motion. On one occasion my wife walked in and watched a few minutes . Tony Atlas was the announcer. She asked how I mixed the sound from one fight with the video from another.
Even to my wife who hates boxing it was obvious that Tony Atlas was not describing the fight she was seeing.

 

[Deus Vult]

WHITE: "game manager"

BLACK: "gamebreaker"

 

[cutty]

Remember when Jason Williams first got to the NBA? The media dubbed him "White Chocolate." They just had to relate his style of play to being black in some way because no way does a white man have any business trying to pass and dribble the ball like that.

 

[Bronk]

Being an older guy we used to hear this phrase from time to time: Average White Back. It meant, nothing special.

Actually I hope to hear it in the future. It would be nice to have just a couple of AWBs around.

 

[White Shogun]

Being an older guy we used to hear this phrase from time to time: Average White Back. It meant, nothing special.

Actually I hope to hear it in the future. It would be nice to have just a couple of AWBs around.

Hey Bronk,
You reminded me of when I was a kid and used to watch wrestling. There were always guys (white) who were put into matches to be tossed around by the 'name' wrestlers. These guys were seen as 'no-name' white guys, i.e. nothing special. I don't recall ever watching a match between a name wrestler and a 'no-name' black guy. Edited by: White Shogun

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I remember several no name black guys wrestling big name whites in Memphis when I was a kid. You usually saw one of these matches every couple of weeks. I remember a pathetic black tag team in Memphis by the name of Ruff and Ready.

I don't think they ever won a match in the 4+ years I watched Channel 5 wrestling!

 

[cutty]

Uh actually I gotta say that the biggest punching bag in wrestling had to be Screamin Norman Smiley. Y'know, the black guy, kind of looked like Warren Moon. This guy took being one of those 'no name fall guys' to a whole new level of entertainment.

 

[speedster]

There were plenty of black no-namers in wrestling in the day.The inside term for these guys is jobber and trust me there were quite a few.

 

[guest301]

I have seen plenty of black "jobbers" in wrestling as well. You pretty much have to earn your stardom and place in pro wrestling. That's the way it should be.

 

[Bronk]

The boxing equivilent of a "jobber" is a "tomato can." You fight a tomato can to boost your record.

Many a boxer made their reputations by pounding the hand-picked tomato cans of the trade.

 

[WHITE NOISE]

"His motor is always running"= white "A real fireplug"=white "A yomans duty"=white "Slot receiver"=white
And the famous " Kudos"=Dan the mouth Deirdorf describing anything to do with whites.

 

[guest301]

I heard another racial euphemism yesterday while I was watching a college basketball game between a white dominated team and a black one. The White team was winning and the announcer said something to the effect that the black team "needed to speed the game up". Not the first time I have heard that, but it's obviously loaded with racial stereotypes.Edited by: guest301