Is the expression "Yobama" racist. *EDIT*

[Deep13]

Some guy on Facebook doesn't see why it is. I see it as a characterture of what ghetto-speak is supposed to sound like.

On edit: This was on a sign being held at of of these healthcare reform town meeting that read, "Yobama lies, Grandma dies."

[Cleita]

1. Yes, it is. n/t

[timeforpeace]

6. If a Republican says it, yes. If a Dem says it, no.

[Cleita]

7. It's classless no matter who says it.n/t

[Mz Pip]

2. Takeoff on Yo mama

A popular insult. It's been around for quite a while so maybe these idiots need some new material and not recylced early 90s shit.

I don't know if it's racist. It is pretty stupid.

[tservo]

13. It doesn't even make any sense.

Your Bama?
Your Obama?

:shrug:

[Kerrytravelers]

3. Yes.

If that guy on Facebook doesn't understand that... well, he understands it perfectly. He's just being a jerk. No excuses.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. No...

I think it's a generational thing.

Yomomma was a saying used when I was a kid and I'm Irish - so whiter than rice.

[valerief]

5. I love new slang. The Yo stuff is just new slang to me. Embrace it.

BTW, any new language that's developed over the past 40 years is new slang to me.

[Divine Discontent]

8. that's funny (40 years is new to me, ha!)

I dont think it's bad, it can be used to be bad, as in saying something rude to Obama on a poster. But, I saw pro Obama signs with it on it.

[valerief]

9. Yeah, it does sound strange when you're young (under 40). Once you

cross that milestone, time gets bundled differently.

Now get off my lawn, kid!!!

:hi:

[Divine Discontent]

11. sigh... only a few more years....

then we can scream at 'kids' together!

[Captain Hilts]

10. The expression "Yo Mamma," has many MANY variations that are not race-based...

In Italian it's tu madre!

In Russian it's mat tvoi!

[TankLV]

12. I don't know - I'll have to ask JoMama...

[Honeycombe8]

14. Maybe. But don't inner city guys (think Sylvester Stallone and Fonzi) say "Yo"?

"Yo" isn't exclusively a black thing, is it?

[Deep13]

15. I'm not sure it is even a Black thing.

I'm suggesting that the man holding the poster THINKS it is a Black thing. One guy told me that his friend, a Cleveland cop (yeah, pretty tenuous) claims that Blacks downtown, elated by having a Black president, are rudely calling whites "honkey." I ask him if this suddenly became the 1970s. "Who the hell says 'honey' anymore?" I asked.

[bermudat]

16. no