Can Pookie (& Nay-Nay) Get Some Love?

[goldcanyonaz]

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But for those not in the know, the question remains: Who is this Pookie?

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"Pookie means a whole lot of different things; none of them are good,'' said Kevin Gray, a South Carolina writer and activist. "Pookie's always the foil.''

To linguist and writer John McWhorter, Pookie is the kind of ghetto character played by Cedric the Entertainer or Chris Tucker in one of those "Barbershop'' or "Friday'' movies. In the 1960s and '70s, he would have gone by Leroy, Tyrone or Otis.

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"It's a real strong use of language,'' said Bakari Kitwana, the hip-hop writer, lecturer and activist. In dropping Pookie's name, Obama is signaling to those who question his blackness — because his mother was white and his father an African without slave ancestry — that he is not an outsider to black life.

"If you get it you get it, and if you don't, you don't care,'' Kitwana said. "I have a Pookie in my family.''

http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2007/03/can-pookie-nay-nay-get-some-love.html

*scroll down for article.

[knowledgeispwr]

1. Well apparently there are a whole lot of ignorant people in NC...

black and white, who are going around using "pookie" as an affectionate nickname.

[cali]

3. My sister had a teddy bear named pookie

bad bear, bad. And I once had a car mechanic named Ray-Ray. He was a Vermont woodchuck type.

[IndianaJones]

2. This is the type of appeal that reveals Obama’s willingness to play on the worst type of stereotypes

Mark McPhail, Miami University of Ohio

[ellacott]

4. The Dems have officially jumped the shark

It's been very sad witnessing it.

This Pookie and Ray Ray controversy is the saddest thing I've seen on this board.

To say this is why you don't support Obama is mindboggling.

[KennedyGuy]

7. Nah..The "young is a racial slur" was worse..

[Zynx]

8. I didn't see that but I am going to try to guess what happened.

Hillary was talking about how she wanted to court "young" voters, some of whom happened to be black males and then someone said "young" can mean "boy" which is a racially charged term for black men in the south?

[KennedyGuy]

9. No..she called Obama "young"

and many Obama folks went right over the cliff saying it was a racial slur.

[TwilightZone]

11. She referred to Barack as a "young man" at an MLK event.

Some DUers went insane, claiming it was a racial slur.

[cali]

5. trying to turn this into "Macaca" is fucking absurd.

And the sort of thing sick little people do.

[ellacott]

10. I agree

That's why I said the Dems have jumped the shark. It is unbelievable that this is supposed to be something offensive(Obama's words).

Absolutely absurd.

[MethuenProgressive]

13. Nice post, Pookie.

:hi:

[LizW]

6. Garfield's teddy bear n/t

[Cameron27]

12. self-delete

posted in the wrong thread.

[ecstatic]

14. They are overanalyzing things & trying to stay relevant. It's just vernacular

and it's funny. End of story.

[lurky]

15. From Wiktionary:

Noun

pookie

1. (slang): vagina
2. (colloquial): lover
3. A term of endearment used for a loved one. Often used when one is arroused sexually.

This could be more interesting than I thought! ;)