Calling All Bow-Tying White Boys

Most of us remember that in the 1950s a black man often would become outraged when a white man, stereotypically a Southern white man, called him “boy.” 

“Boy” is not a racial slur, but everyone knew that the word was intended to mock and otherwise diminish the black man to whom it had been applied.  The innocuous word “boy” is proof that words, in and of themselves, are not the issue; intent is the issue.  Back in the 1950s, the words boy and nigger were equally reprehensible because everyone knew what they signified about the speaker’s mind-set.  No one could have faulted any black man for reacting aggressive to having been called boy or nigger.

In 2012, the racist use of the word “boy” has evaporated because, unlike the word “nigger” that is kept current by black racists to intimidate and silence whites, “boy” as an African American slander is not used routinely by either whites or blacks.

So, I was floored when on Fox’s American Live May 3, 2012, black feminist and racist, Jehmu Greene referred to white journalist Tucker Carlson on live television as a “bow-tying white boy.”  More startling was when he replied, “You can use name-calling all you like” the cowardly Greene countered, “I didn’t call you a name.”   (This is the same double standards, double speaking, double binding Jehmu Greene that I mentioned in my book when she played a previous race-based word game on Fox News.)

Did Greene apologize to Carlson during the show?  No.  Instead, as is her style, she continued to interrupt and shout over him; another disrespect that Tucker called her on.   It was left to Megyn Kelly later to offer her regrets to the “bow-tying white boy.”

Imagine for one minute that an obvious slur had been white to black rather than the reverse.  What if Tucker had referred to Jehmu as a “fat-assed black girl”?  Would Carlson ever have appeared on Fox, or on any other mainstream news program again?  You bet your slim-ass, he would not have.  But Greene remains on Fox, unscathed.

While, in this context, the significance of “boy” as insult is clear, “bow-tying” is a bit elusive.  Presumably, its use represents Greene’s attempt to paint Carlson as a nerdish white elitist.  No self-respecting “real” black male would wear a bow-tie?

Maybe Ms. Greene should check the record.  Her main man, Louis, kill all the white devils, especially the Jews, Farrakhan would not be caught dead without his signature bow-tie.   And, according to Wesley Morris (http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7346656/the-rise-nba-nerd), LeBron James and Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat wear bow-ties, too.

We can return now to my essential point about racial slurs: it is the slurring person and his/her racist intent that are the real issues, not the words per se.  Jehmu Greene is a racially angry, racially preoccupied, racializing, and race-crusading black identity slavemaster.  In that respect, she is very much like her esteemed friend President Obama for whom she, and others like her, do the raceketeering dirty-work while Barack Hussein and Michelle Robinson Obama no-doubt howl delightedly and uproariously in the privacy of the White House, safe from detection and responsibility.