A fellow grocer, upon reading the article about the Talbot County Boys [Maryland Confederates who died in the Civil War], had the following comment:

"I understand a man getting pissed when someone calls him a boy. But last week I had this foodstamper, a nice lady—whose boy, who could have only been four and she had shopping with her at two in the morning—who went ballistic when I returned his toy and said, 'Miss, your boy dropped this.' She went insane, her face pinched up and told me, 'Don' you dare call my little man a boy—that's racist!' Since you're the honorary African American, I thought maybe you could explain this to me."

-Eddie

We didn't have time to discuss it, so I'm posting it here and will hopefully earn Eddie's readership after he checks it out.

In Black America women often call each other girls in an endearing fashion which has morphed into girlfriend [my mother's generation of white women where still referring to each other as girls a few years ago, although no longer], and men chaff and rage at the term boy, and take every possible opportunity to use the term boy to designate a white man. As a store manager I had numerous parents of child shoplifters who insisted on me referring to their children as a child [chyle] or "little man," with boy, girl or kid unacceptable.

There are news real films extant in which FDR socializes with working men and refers to them as boys, and they have no problem with this. However, these were proud white men, who had been raised by men, where today's black man was raised by a woman who is usually stupid, often insane and always violent, resulting in a high level of emasculation and therefore sensitivity to male imagery—hence rap music, singing about the size of your dick all day long, and the atrociously poor sportsmanship of black professional athletes compared to other groups. This feeling is made worse by the fact that American blacks have been taught that they are the only human beings that have ever been held in bondage other than the Isrаelites in Egypt.

Ironically, the sensuous pleasure black men and boys—who insist they are men while still in diapers, and hence hopelessly degrading the designation—take in referring to white males their own age as whiteboys [not even with a dash, but one word] while they themselves insist on being referred to as men, is not displaced and is indeed historically correct.

The first slaves referred to as boys in North America were white, and they were referred to as boys, because they were. Child slaves known as "Duty Boys" were being shipped to America as early as 1621, and had been preceded by just plain old "boys" since 1609, 10 years before the first black slave was shipped to Virginia. For the next 150 years most American slaves were white, and most were trafficked into bondage as children between the ages of 8 and 14, and were accurately called boys and girls.

However, calling a man who has grown to adulthood in chains that you have placed upon his wrists and ankles, a boy, is a psychic blow, and many of these white slaves rebelled and escaped before their indentures were up, earning white American poor the everlasting hatred of the white American elite, who gradually replaced their white slaves with blacks, at great expense, between 1700 and 1800.

The habit of calling slaves boys and girls continued from this child slavery practice that literally birthed this nation and not without reason. For many black slaves on a plantation were the children of the slave master and his male associates, to whom he would pimp his slave women out to for breeding. The white slave master was the father figure of the entire obscene household. To this day many Black Americans refer to the government as White Daddy, and since the black man who has been cast aside by the legions of black women who have married the government in his stead, continues to chaff at the daisy chains of emasculation, the simple word, worn by over 100,000 white boys who were murdered and worked to death clearing the forests of the Eastern Seaboard, is only remembered as a bondage brand by the one and only ethnic group of Americans who failed to win their own freedom, and a century and a half after having it given to them, have decided they don't want it, asking only that such semantic reminders of their position as the moral chattel of an evil state be omitted from discourse, a pathetic demand I have always honored out of pure pity.

For more on the legacy of American slavery check out America in Chains at the link below: