Since when did "hood" and "ghetto" become racial slurs?
Originally Posted by Banned 35 times
Ghetto became a term of racial segregation in the 1500s when the Jews of Venice were herded onto an island. Other ghettos were established throughout Europe throughout the centuries. Most notable were the Prague ghetto (Josefov), which stood for a number of centuries and of course the Warsaw Ghetto, where tens of thousands of Polish Jews were imprisoned prior to being sent to the death camps.
In our country, ghetto refers to neighborhoods highly concentrated with African Americans and other black peoples.
Hood? I'm guessing that term became popular with Spike Lee's "Boyz in the Hood" in the 90s. Again, referring to an economically disadvantaged neighborHOOD populated primarily with minorities.
Are you REALLY asking these questions, Humpty?
I think you'd be better off looking up the origin and implications of cockydoody or croggercroger.
BTW -- there are NO viable Hispanic candidates on the GOP radar who will convince Latinos to go against the party of Cesar Chavez. They're a good 20 years away from developing that base. It really doesn't matter because until the GOP gets its collective shit together (vis a vis the Tea Party and Constitution Party crazies) they'll never be unified enough to win nationally. That, guys, is something you're going to have to come to grips with. The current Texas Legislative session stands as testimony to the state of chaos that is the GOP.