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In reply to the discussion: Hey, you Texas-haters, Florida-haters, southern-haters [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I am 50 and have not heard the word boy used to or about a black man as a pejorative since my grandfather died in the 80s.
Now we do use the word boy a lot. But not in a racial way. My wife might say 'are you boys' cooking supper tonight'. Or if I see some guys doing something unseemly I might 'look at what those boys are doing'. But their race has nothing to do with it. And I also know that if I call a black man 'boy' to his face I may well have an ass kicking coming.
Where are you being called boy. I spend time in rural Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky and mainly Florida. And it is not that I rarely hear it, I never hear it.
I occasionally hear the N word but never to our around black folks. Well, unless I hear it said by an African American. Because that is where I hear it the majority of the time.