(10-29-2018, 01:56 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(10-29-2018, 01:48 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: Which is funny because almost every New Yorker I've ever met was white trash.

That phrase implies a belief that white people by default are not trash while people of other races by default are, does it not?

No it does not.
It's actually more linked to waste people, crackers, squatters and terms like that.
Its a rich vs poor thing and not really a black vs white thing.

However... the term was often used by black house slaves when speaking about white servants.

The term eventually evolved into the more used trailer trash. Which really is speaking on someone's moral failings as well as a wealth status...

But I wouldn't expect you to know that (or even google before making such a wild claim)

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(10-29-2018, 04:38 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(10-29-2018, 04:15 PM)mikesez Wrote: In my experience, the phrase "black trash" doesn't exist.  Is that your experience too? If so, why do you think the one phrase exists and the other does not?

It's been my experience that "white trash" is the same as "cracker" which is the derogatory term black folks use against whites. It would be on the same level (for lack of a better word) as "spic" or "wetbacks" for Hispanics, the "n" word for blacks, or "chinks" for Asians. 

It's an ugly world out there.

Isn't it funny that you can say (type) all those words except one lol

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