Ace Boon Coon?
jinx74
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is this an acceptable term to say on commercial radio?Sana G from local Bay station KMEL just used this term in joking reference to her DJ... now, i like racist jokes and slang as much as the next cracker but for some reason i was really offended by this...am i tripping?
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i dont think so.
Doc Beezy, an answer to your PM is a lengthy one, and I will hit you with it. It just requires a lot of soul searching.
hey man. like i said. no rush
From Websters...
Main Entry: 2boon
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English bon, from Middle French, good -- more at BONNY
1 archaic : FAVORABLE
2 : CONVIVIAL
ergo my most favorable coon (not meant with negativity so I guess we cold take coon & say black person
My #1 favorite black guy?
I dunno A***....I ain't hardly black, but "coon" has to be one of the most offensive, old timey, sheet-wearin', cross burnin' epithets held dear by the Strom Thurmond crowd...
Oh no, I totally agree, but I'm thinking along the lines of how nigger became nigga and went from duragatory slur to a term of endearment.
you see i understand that... but is that where the context really began? maybe i was just raised up differently but i was always just under the impression that it was negative from the start... then again im white and mexican... who the fuck am i to question that shit.
Nah, it's cool. You should question shit. Just because you aren't black doesn't mean you don't have the right to try and be edjumacated on such things. Maybe coon is the next term of endearment but I doubt it. We're all in the same race, the human race. Ethnic slurs aren't too cool in my book, but what do I know. I'm Mexican, too.
2 entries found for derogatory.
de??rog??a??to??ry
adj.
1.Disparaging; belittling: a derogatory comment.
2.Tending to detract or diminish.
I was ignoring it for a while, but I couldn't hold out any longer.
Coon is, ace boon coon is as said. People use it still, my ex-girlfriend even used to say it. It turns up in rap from time to time (ex. Ice-T)... or the shortened version, when people say "My Ace".
Otherwise I think it's throwback... like something your grandparents would've said.
apparently it's accepted in the urban dictionary...not that i agree with it.
Maybe in records, but not in store names.
Why wouldn't it be accepted?
poor choice of words on my part. i don't agree with the term. just my $.02
i know why it was accepted in the dictionary, i just meant i'm not into the term personally.
I was stationed at Clark Air Force Base in 1961-62. When soldiers who were liked by the Philippine people were given a farewell party in downtown Angeles(the town outside the base) they were celebrated as being A number one Ace Boon Coons, a term of endearment. It is the only place I have heard this term used. As an African-American man I didn't find the term offensive. All these many years later, I still don't.