Featured Obama makes hate filled racist statement, but it's 'okie doke' for him since he's referring to Trump

Salty posted the link in the 2nd post of this thread.

 

I really can't believe how few people have heard this term used before. I'm looking at all these other definitions and thinking, "Umm, no". I never knew where the term originated. It was just another colloquialism that a lot of folks used like "y'all".

 

I've never heard it used in any way except as a variant of the word "okay," and I hear it a lot.

I don't buy the new etymology, but adopting it makes carpo's point even more salient, and his detractors more illiterate.

 

No it's pretty obvious there is absolutely no point to this thread. I'll say this, it brought everybody together in a mutual state of confusion.

 

That is all it is. All this other stuff about it is just garbage.

 

Naah. Your confusion and garbage are your own. Just because you and others don't know word usage doesn't make the word and the way it's used garbage.

The word has been used in that manner for decades by white and black people.

Some of y'all do give merit to a lot of universities doing away with aptitude tests.

 

You seem to forget ... he is the golden "boy" and he does no wrong. Like Hillary, the public drool at the likes of him. Craning their necks for more of the same.

 

The whole notion of it being a racist term seems to come squarely from this Kevin Alexander Gray guy, on an old Jesse Jackson radio broadcast. I'm not able to find the whole context supposedly from Clinton, but it sounds like what was used on this site: http://www.theobamafile.com/_opinion/WhoSaysObamaSmart.htm "Obama's game is the old okie-dokie -- y'all know about okie dokie, right? -- he tries to bamboozle you -- hoodwink ya -- tries to hoodwink ya -- Alright!"
I don't know if that was a statement originally uttered by Clinton. But if so, that context might be why Gray would make the link to "shuckin' and jivin", though it's still an assumption based on the apparent thrust of the sentence (i.e. involving several words and the way it was written, not just that term).

In any case, since the specific term in question is not a racial term for either race, then Obama using it on Trump says nothing about any double standard or anything.