Ok, for me this was the first time i EVER heard this racial slure, other slurs Randal mentioned i knew of, but can someone please clarify how 'Porch Monkey' is one of them?
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"Monkey" can be a slur, but I'm pretty sure "porch monkey" was just made up for this movie
shareI learned my uncle was racist because of this movie. There were these black people who played music and hung out on their front porch all the time, my uncle would call them porch monkeys.
I didn't know it was a racist saying until that one part in the movie.
I am putting the Shini Curse on anyone who hasn't ever heard of the term Porch Monkey. HeHe
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Randal must have been the only person in NJ who doesn't know that "porch monkey" is a racial slur. Growing up in the suburbs of Jersey, I learned that one early on.
So, to anyone in doubt, no it wasn't made up for this movie.
yeaaa i live in the jersey burbs as well. i've heard of this one.
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"Spear chucker" is an all time classic one though...
*in a comedic way... im not actually racist but i do laugh at racist jokes etc...*
Over here in Britain one of our more controversial and popular comedians got into severe crap because he said it a lot... as well as other things (insulted every minority under the sun, including gays).
Jim Davidson. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LUmPrjSwIdk
I always thought he was funny but he tried to be a total racist comdian half the time and a well liked public TV show host the other half.
Media tore him to bits and i think he only does gigs and aid events for the British army now days.
Bernard Manning was another guy who realy was racist to the core... but hilarious at the same time. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=10jmQ_K1qmM&feature=related
The worlds changed... for the better on the whole.
I was born and raised in Atlanta Ga. "Porch monkey" is worse than the "n Word" man...."n" has been somewhat incorporated via music and slang, I wouldn't exactly punch a white guy for saying it if its in a song or used in a certain context. Porch monkey though? That's an ass-whippin in a can man
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Well I must say I'm surprised but mildly pleased that not many people know the word (the less racial slurs the better), but it is pretty common. Perhaps geographical reasons? Part of my family is from the old south, so I've, er, heard that term slung back and forth in between the grandparents. I gotta say, I was laughing my head off at the "porch monkey 4 life" shirt :D
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I've never heard it either, and I would have made the same assumption Randal did - that it refers to lazy people who sit on their porch and watch others go by. I would never have known it was a racial slur.
"Lens cap."
Yeah I too thought porch monkey was a term for people of all races who lazed around their porches.
I also got odd looks one time I was playing a video game where you race your boat past some tribesmen throwing spears at you and I called them "spear chuckers" not realizing that it was a racial slur.
The other one which has gotten me recently is wigger. When I was a kid we called each other wiggers all the time which was synonymous with "spaz" or something, as in somebody who "wigs out." Now I'm to understand that it refers to a white man who pretends to be black. Well I don't like it, and I'm taking it back.
There's not too many racial slurs I care for enough to try and take back, but I'm definitely going to try and save porch monkey.
shareTo be honest, I had never heard the term, but I knew as soon as it was said on screen how it could of been taken as a negative racial slur.
Although I also recently found out that "articulate" is a negative slur towards African Americans. Look it up and think about it.
Wow...was that necessary?
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