RE: I don't think, this to be racist, but your give your opinions
March 7, 2016 at 4:22 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2016 at 4:23 pm by paulpablo.)
(March 7, 2016 at 2:05 pm)abaris Wrote: There's an old saying. Only used in Austria, if I'm not mistaken.
"Ich bin Neger.", meaning "I am negro". It means to be extremely broke. To tell the truth, I never really reflected on where it came from, but quite recently, I stumbled over it's origins. It came up at the turn to the 20th century. People that were out of work, and there were many of them, used to sit in the streets. So, negro (neger) is used to say, they have ample time on their hands letting the sun shine on them and letting their skin turn brown.
The definition of racist means a belief that one race is superior to another, that definition doesn't really work in common parlance these days, at the moment pretty much anything that could be offensive in a way that involves race is considered racist.
So with that in mind I'd say yeh this could be racist, if I heard two white guys talking and the one guy was replying to the question of if he had any money with "Nah,I'm black " To mean he has no money I would take it to be racist, I wouldn't think he was talking about himself being like an out of work person who has too much time on his hands and therefore sits in the sun.
That's just to me though, I think it is obviously subjective to the time and place you're using it.
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