"Who-Dey" Is Offensive?!

[*PhilHos*]

(12-08-2015, 07:55 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: We've officially hit rock bottom.  Now this writer, who happens to be white, is calling "Who-Dey" racist because of the "dey" is in Ebonics.

I've grown up all my life in Cincinnati and never tied it to Ebonics; in fact, in never even crossed my mind!  If people were acting a certain way when they said it that would portray a certain way of living that was making fun of, or even copying, black people, then I might understand, but it's just our chant and is more of a cheerful song than anything.  I don't know of anyone that has ever even considered it as something from the black culture.

Here's the article:


What a joke.

The author misses on the most important point: it's racist/offensive if it's derogatory towards someone because of their race. How does "Who Dey" belittle blacks or whatever ethnicity? It's not making fun of anyone, it's not belittling an ethnicity's ability to speak, it's not putting down anything.

Who Dey is about as racist as all the white characters are in The Waterboy.

Without looking, I bet you anything the author of this article is white.