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Walter L. Newton7/28/2009 1:02:38 pm PDT

re: #611 shortshrift

Please see my last which explains why it is not so simple.
I think that a reverse-oreo cultural image is needed - white on the outside black on the inside for an example of a “simple” racist insult.
There is something peculiarly stupid about McLaughlin asking the “oreo” question, but he related it to Jesse Jackson’s remark about Obama. Quite rightly, people of all races responded to this by repudiating the “oreo” metaphor because it relies on the racist idea that blacks must repudiate white culture (because white culture is irredeemably racist).
Generally speaking, any word can be an insult. So, I suppose, someone hurling the word at someone else might intend an insult - but it might not necessarily be taken as one.
I am reminded of a story of an Israeli describing a cultural exchange visit to some iron curtain country. A person from the next table kept hissing “You are a Jew” at him. It took him a while to realize that “Jew” was meant to be an insult.

Three posts from you, trying NOT to answer my simple question. Maybe I will put it in a more step by step process.

1) “Oreo” is a slam when used by blacks in regards to another black (yes/no)
2) If “Yes” than any white using it about a black is insulting that black person (yes/no)

Simply answer those two questions for me, yes or no.