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Originally Posted by troutman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Dat%3F
http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-da...ase-of-who-dat
The whole phrase is “Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?”—and, while one could put it in the category of sports regionalisms like “dem Bums” and “go Stillers,” the Los Angeles Times’s Readers’ Representative has, for example, had to deal with a reader from La Puente who
said he was “outraged” by the headlines “couched in minstrel show dialect.” “However, the usage is far from racist,” the Readers’ Representative said, noting that it was “ubiquitous in New Orleans,” and even the subject of an N.F.L. copyright dispute. (The N.F.L. backed down, sort of.) But the Times acknowledged that the phrase “does go back to minstrelsy.”
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That clears it up a bit better than the original thing I had read. Still, the whole "well much of the black community has embraced it" reads somewhat similar to stuff found on RedskinsFacts, not to mention that white people chanting something that was used heavily in minstrel shows is still kind of messed up.
As for your actual dose of ####ed up racism, we turn our attention to the usual suspects:
