so i was at a party on Saturday night, shooting the bull, and a very annoying girl proposed the topic, "is "jimmies" really a racist term?
for those of you outside of Mass., in this state people use the word "jimmies" instead of "chocolate sprinkles" at ice cream shops. when i first moved to Taxachusetts, i used the term because it said it on the menu, but stopped doing so when i was told by numerous people that it is a racist term.
so at the party, we found many people who also knew this to be a racist term, or at least have it's roots in racism, but no one could tell us why.
so i put the question to the same source that told me my disc rotor was on backwards, the monkey.
any ideas?
ben.
for those of you outside of Mass., in this state people use the word "jimmies" instead of "chocolate sprinkles" at ice cream shops. when i first moved to Taxachusetts, i used the term because it said it on the menu, but stopped doing so when i was told by numerous people that it is a racist term.
so at the party, we found many people who also knew this to be a racist term, or at least have it's roots in racism, but no one could tell us why.
so i put the question to the same source that told me my disc rotor was on backwards, the monkey.
any ideas?
ben.