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Is this racist?
It's common with dog people (or animal people in general) to use that sort
of grammar: I work cattle I race greyhounds I run beagles I show Quarter Horses These wouldn't sound right with "with" inserted. Doing a web search with the words "black tan hunt" pulls up a plethora of websites..all about hunting dogs. I think the OP is just way off base here! "llama mama" wrote in message . .. Wendy Marsden wrote in : I'm driving behind a white GMC Jimmy SUV and it has exactly one bumper sticker on it that says, "I hunt black and tans". I'm looking at this with my mouth open thinking they MUST be talking about dogs, they can't really be talking about lynching, can they? I look closer to see if there's a tiny "with" in there. Nope, but there's a silhouette which I finally figure out (at a stop light when I can study it) is a dog barking up a tree trunk. well, i can see how a nonhunter or non-dogperson might read it as racist (since a lot of people don't know black & tan is a breed), but i doubt the person with the bumpersticker or the maker of the sticker meant it as racist. while it's poor grammar to leave of the 'with', it's common convention particularly on bumperstickers. it's not meant as a double entendre in this case, anyway. BTW, i've never heard a racist remark using 'tan' as a derogatory term. lee -- It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. -Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998) |
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Is this racist?
Iuil wrote:
Heh. In my world a "Black and tan" is either a drink (half Guinness and half ale) or a British soldier from the period of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). So maybe the double entendre makes sense if you know the driver to be Irish? Wendy |
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Is this racist?
Wendy Marsden wrote in message ...
I'm driving behind a white GMC Jimmy SUV and it has exactly one bumper sticker on it that says, "I hunt black and tans". I'm looking at this with my mouth open thinking they MUST be talking about dogs, they can't really be talking about lynching, can they? I look closer to see if there's a tiny "with" in there. Nope, but there's a silhouette which I finally figure out (at a stop light when I can study it) is a dog barking up a tree trunk. I told my husband how scandalized I was by the poor taste of this bumper sticker. He said that he didn't take it that way and he couldn't imagine that the people who put that bumper sticker up thought that way. I said that the double entendre was the whole POINT of putting up that bumper sticker. He said I was off my rocker and way too cynical. Opinions? Am I just nuts to think anyone would be that horrid? I *do* tend to be cynical (and that's a trait my husband deplores.) I'm also putting together a study unit on the Restoration of the American South through to the Civil Rights movement, so racism is on my mind. Wendy, see red I probably would have thought the same thing as you! I am not up to date about dog breeds, so I would have never figured it out. Brandy |
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Is this racist?
"Iuil" wrote: Heh. In my world a "Black and tan" is either a drink (half Guinness and half ale) So how does that work -- are they just mixed and stirred together in the same glass? I like my Guinness quite a bit, but I've never tried mixing it with anything. P. Tierney |
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Is this racist?
As a person living in the 'South' my take would be that this is a reference
to beer preference by the driver. Kim |
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Is this racist?
"P. Tierney" wrote Heh. In my world a "Black and tan" is either a drink (half Guinness and half ale) So how does that work -- are they just mixed and stirred together in the same glass? I like my Guinness quite a bit, but I've never tried mixing it with anything. I have no idea - I can't stand Guinness! Jean -- "And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you." Khalil Gibran Return address is unread. Replies to firstnamelastname @eircom.net. |
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Is this racist?
"Wendy Marsden" wrote Heh. In my world a "Black and tan" is either a drink (half Guinness and half ale) or a British soldier from the period of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). So maybe the double entendre makes sense if you know the driver to be Irish? Oooh yeah. But still not PC :-). Jean -- "And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you." Khalil Gibran Return address is unread. Replies to firstnamelastname @eircom.net. |
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Is this racist?
Iuil wrote in message
... "Barbara Bomberger" wrote A black and tan is a dog (usualoly used for hunting, but the description of my beagle colors are black and tan( Heh. In my world a "Black and tan" is either a drink (half Guinness and half ale) or a British soldier from the period of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). I was looking to see if anyone else said they thought of beer, not people, when they read "black and tan". Glad to know I'm not the only one. :-) -- Cheryl S. Mom to Julie, 2 yr., 4 mo. And a boy, EDD 4.Sept Cleaning the house while your children are small is like shoveling the sidewalk while it's still snowing. |
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I asked my husband what he would think if he saw such a sticker and he said
"Yuengling!" That's a local brewery that brews a Black and Tan kind of beer. "K, T, E & N" wrote in message ... Or hunting raccoons. |
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Is this racist?
"Sue" wrote in message ... P. Tierney wrote in message So how does that work -- are they just mixed and stirred together in the same glass? I like my Guinness quite a bit, but I've never tried mixing it with anything. You need a quite a large beer glass for this. You pour in the Guiness first, then with an upside down spoon held over the glass, you slowly pour the pale ale over the spoon. The result will be that there is a distinct separation of the beer at first, but as you drink it, they obviously will be mixed together. ) Ah, interesting. I think it'll make the menu tonight. Thx. ;-) P. Tierney |
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