OT Either stop locking threads or close the OT forum down

Ah!
Navy here, way before your time no doubt. It was always Fleet Marines I on my team when we had to go ashore though.
Ha! A few times with a carburetor attached to a Marine that had the job of hanging onto my pocket. The carburetor
is a Fire Control Radar transponder. The ships main battery fire control system would track this, literal training on the Marine.
But I could spot the fire off to where we wanted it.
Anyway, I guess this is why I never did pick up the on the Marine shit, UCD mentioned.

 

Go back to guarding the Naval Base gates, jarhead.

 

Yeah I know. I just had a different perspective due to circumstances. See the above post to Nate.

 

I’m not reading all this BS. Just learn to be a bit more selective of the words you use. I’m known to be one of the more abrasive “liberals” on this site but I never get edited or posts erased. I walk the line. I laugh at politicians, situations, and keep my insults aimed at topics not posters. It gets the job done.

 

You're being vague. Who made up the term? Are you saying black people made it up? If it was widely used slang for racism, don't you think there'd be something about it online? Have you heard the term before used as a racial insult? And why does it have to be a racial insult and not just a slam at someone's intelligence?

I have heard people use this term before, so if it actually has a racist origin, I would like to know it. I apologize for not just taking your word, but I would never just accept a statement from someone without something factual to back it up. "It just is" isn't enough for me.

 

Only that I said no such thing. Jesus fucking Christ...

If It weren't for black people you wouldn't even know that phrase.

#Yourewelcomeforhavingyourlifeenriched

 

Yes it was someone black who made up the term. White folks just decided to put it online.

 

Nowadays the navy has their own MP’s that guard their gates.

 

Saying "edumacate" to a black person is racist 101.

Especially one with a degree.

 

Naw, I do not want to be required to know this nonsense.

 

What’s funnier response?

“You guys had one job....”

or

“Sounds like an upgrade to me.”

 

If you can't remember all the things you say here I can't help you.

 

As far as urban language and black culture I'd recommend some folks read Langston Hughes...he invented the language of jazz....contributed so much vocabulary that was added to the dictionary....he coined the phrase "cool" for one....great American playwriter and poet....a lot of our urban vocabulary came from New York City in his heyday....we all use language from that period of Americana..

 

WTF?

 

It's an old term, from what I can tell. The only source I have found that actually seems to go into the origin of the word is this:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2005-April/048952.html

Not sure how accurate this is. They don't cite all their sources. The word seems to be mostly tried to Popeye the Sailor in the 50s and 60s.

It has been pretty closely tied to uneducated white people, and from that same link they have associated it to white people using it as an insult to someone's intelligence, in some cases black people.

So it seems to me that it is actually something that white trash has been using for a long time, not something that was invented by black people, but it has been used as an insult towards black people as well as poor white trash. That's the best I can come up with, but I don't see it specifically as an insult to black people. Mostly it's an insult to uneducated people.

 

Maybe @Nate would disagree but I read his response as a sarcastic way of calling YOU a racist moron. Not black people in general, just you.

I think he was thinking of those black guys like I've seen on YouTube that tell white people we're all gonna die and to worship black men as our true kings. There was one video I saw a few years ago that would show what I'm talking about. Can't find it now.

 

I think that @Nate and I are having a cathartic moment.........carry on.

 

Seem like it would be best if we are not all required to know this sort of drivel.
But thanks for doing the work needed to confirm the point.

 

I just had never heard anyone say that edumacate was racist before. No offense to Dviss but I need more than "it just is" and "this is racist 101" to actually support a claim like that. If something is truly racist, there would be evidence of it online.

 

unless you have your safe filter on your computer...truly racist stuff online won't show up unless you turn it off just like porn won't .....plenty of ugly shit out there if you really want to find it...or you can just read OT here.