Odd religious references aside, I’m with the neighbors. I don’t want an amateur auto repair shop next to my home and if you’re honest, you probably don’t either.

Thank you. Truly. It is literally on Wikipedia’s list of ethnic slurs.

What’s with the name? It’s cringeworthy in this day and age. Makes me less inclined to actually watch it, despite my massive crush on Naomi Watts.

That was fascinating. Good for that guy breaking away from and disavowing the racist fanaticism in which he was raised.

Education and exposure is the key. There are places in Louisiana and other states that are almost exclusively white, even now. All the small farming communities tend to be that way because that’s how it’s always been. (Think post-Civil War/post-Depression era divisions/population shifting and settling.) Not a lot of…

Really good article. Thanks for posting the link!

A similar thing happened to the twin girls who were “Prussian Blue” singing duo in childhood, but once they got free of them, and grew up they renounced their racist origins.

Oooh I read that, was super interesting!

great article - thanks for sharing

I’m going to go history nerd on you here. Y’all is how Northern newspapers made fun of Southern newspapers who originally spelled it Ya’ll. I did a seriously long study on it one boring afternoon. Y’all is the form of your oppressors, and to accept it is to accept the rule of the d@man yankees.

Of which I am one.

So…

i’ts like they do’nt know what a contraction is.

Lord have mercy, they misspelled Y’all. Clearly, someone on the publishing team is trying real hard.

I could probably produce a whole bunch of tales about this, but I’ll settle for the most recent outing, which contained no less than THREE things you’d rather not hear a doctor say. (And if any of my real-life friends read Jez comments, I’m about to doxx myself, so.)

AHHH YOU’RE A VAMPIRE.

Yes those 6 month sentences are just too too harsh.

You don’t cure diabetes as much as manage it and get your blood sugar to pre diabetes levels. The only thing that has cured it is gastirc bypass surgery.

Misogynoir is a hell of a drug.

My bff used Smart Recovery instead of AA for this specific reason. She is 3+ years sober and very happy.