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13403920, Do white people refer to themselves as "white folks"?
Posted by FLUIDJ, Thu Sep-17-20 11:58 AM
"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"
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13403927, Nah, just Tim Wise
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Thu Sep-17-20 12:26 PM
Jk, I have no idea.
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13403943, lol
Posted by Brotha Sun, Thu Sep-17-20 01:03 PM
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13403929, No, using "folks" that way is our thing.
Posted by Teknontheou, Thu Sep-17-20 12:33 PM
The ironic thing is the Nazis used the equivalent word "volk" all the time to refer to the German/Aryans people.
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13403946, I mean, "volk" just means "people" in German
Posted by sectachrome86, Thu Sep-17-20 01:06 PM
not really a Nazi thing
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13403948, And folk is just another word for people in English, yet here
Posted by Teknontheou, Thu Sep-17-20 01:14 PM
we are in this post discussing why white people in the US don't use that word in that way.
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13403952, I see that. Im just not getting the volk/folk comparison
Posted by sectachrome86, Thu Sep-17-20 01:23 PM
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13403956, I said that that was an ironic [inconsistency].
Posted by Teknontheou, Thu Sep-17-20 01:28 PM
The irony of that fact was the point.
I'm annoyed that you made me reiterate this in an explicit fashion.
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13403993, Haha
Posted by KiloMcG, Thu Sep-17-20 10:55 PM
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13403930, No w it's "white people"
Posted by handle, Thu Sep-17-20 12:36 PM
They had a whole TV show on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx5fsOHML1I
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13403936, This was another show about White Folks as well
Posted by Teknontheou, Thu Sep-17-20 12:43 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k8pg4MhY2c
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13403939, never seen this LOL...for some reason, I ffwd to this spot, and i'm dying laughing
Posted by FLUIDJ, Thu Sep-17-20 12:47 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx5fsOHML1I&feature=youtu.be&t=1058
"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"
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13403937, only when they're trying to be self-deprecating
Posted by BrooklynWHAT, Thu Sep-17-20 12:44 PM
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13403938, I've known a lot of white people in my life, a lot
Posted by MEAT, Thu Sep-17-20 12:46 PM
And they'll identify with ancestry more than white ... reap all of the benefits of whiteness
But in casual conversation it's all "My great grandfather came over from Poland" or yada yada
You can see forms of that in Damali's post
https://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=13390094&mesg_id=13390094&listing_type=search
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13403941, I've always had mixed feelings about our flagrant use of "Black folks"
Posted by FLUIDJ, Thu Sep-17-20 12:53 PM
it has a sort of casualness to it that, yes, in many ways is authentic and endearing.....
but in other ways...the levity of it is rather demeaning....
I've also heard this a lot...white people do tend to zero in, with an almost jarring specificity, to their lineage (and there's a great deal of privilege tied to their ability to do so).... It's def. a flex IMO...
"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"
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13403953, I prefer Black folk over Black people in casual convo
Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Sep-17-20 01:26 PM
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13403957, Exactly...casual being the key. I'm repeatedly seeing/hearing it in formal
Posted by FLUIDJ, Thu Sep-17-20 01:32 PM
settings....
TV interviews....article interviews, articles, etc....
And in "mixed company"...
Don't like it....
"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"
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13403944, white people who try too hard, or are being dicks
Posted by Mynoriti, Thu Sep-17-20 01:03 PM
reminds me of people going out of their way to use spanish with someone hispanic. "amigo" can be extra pandering, or purposely dismissive.
or you could just be friends and you're fucking around.
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13403955, not even once
Posted by Amritsar, Thu Sep-17-20 01:28 PM
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13403962, ive heard older southern white niggas use the term.
Posted by Reeq, Thu Sep-17-20 02:41 PM
they pronounce the h in white too.
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13403987, The Real Question Do They Consider Themselves To Be Europids?
Posted by Dj Joey Joe, Thu Sep-17-20 08:53 PM
It's amazing how caucasians basically adopted the race term white when "white" actually meant pure, holy, & without sin, when beforehand they were called "black" by other races and then gave the term "black" to their slaves.
Anyway, do you think they consider themselves caucasians or europids, is the real question.
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13403989, Shouldn't have made it up
Posted by Musa, Thu Sep-17-20 09:11 PM
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13403994, As a resident representative of white people I say no.
Posted by KiloMcG, Thu Sep-17-20 11:05 PM
No they/we do not refer to ourselves as white folks. Though that is a very southern term that I grew up with as a part of my vernacular, so I'm certain that white people do refer to other people, regardless of their race, as folks. As in, "those folks over there" and "those folks from thus and such County " etc.
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