We will need asians as well...thanks...

what you talking about dude?

the chicks are all mine.

by popular demand I have accepted this situation

If you want to unify, why not use unifying speech? Such as "My Brothers and Sisters", not "My Brothas and Sistas".

Skrum, stick to numbers and leave the semantics for others.

Clearly this is a joke, black people don't play kdice.

Ask Wish.

Dicey,

Semantics are as much my business as anybody else's. Besides, I am a mod and offensive speech is my business. Some would find "brothas and sistas", especially in written form, as an example of antilocution, which is the mildest form of racism; i.e., holding up a racial group to ridicule when speaking to a third party.

Skrum said: "If you want to unify, why not use unifying speech? Such as "My Brothers and Sisters", not "My Brothas and Sistas"

Skrum, Johnson who is an African American, is probably making a reference to the most unifying speech in American History. Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech.

It appears he is quoting Martin Luther King phonetically. MLK actually said, "sistas and brothas" in one of the most climatic and famous moments of the speech. With Johnson's usage, saying "sisters and brothers" would be the incorrect way to quote this speech.

Again it is considered by scholars and academics alike as one of the most unifying lines of one of the most important speeches in American history. A clarion call to inclusiveness that is now, 40 years later, being playing out on the American political stage on the very anniversary of the speech.

Most modern references to the speech in electronic media and some in written text use the phonetic version of that quote, although in some written text it has continued to be spelled out as "sisters and brothers."

However his quoting of this speech as an attempt at humor could be certainly be called into question as a "lame joke." But he probably was not using it as subtle racist jab. However only he can answer that.

*takes puff of professorial tobac pipe*

BOOM ONE HIT ON SKRUM!

My post was not to johnson213, it was to dicey.

PTOING! (richochet)

Skrum,

I don't how much of the green stuff you have been smoking today. But I am referring to the post a few lines about that where you say:

"skrumgaer wrote
If you want to unify, why not use unifying speech? Such as "My Brothers and Sisters", not "My Brothas and Sistas"."

which was referring to Johnson post.

PTOING! (richochet)

So John..........are white people completely out of this New World Order? Where does it leave me???? I can be a brotha too!

w0rd?! write letterz and shit yo!