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

[Squire Robertsson]

So, it's a bit of East Coast African American slang. As the Washington Post is not easily available out here, though the NY Times and WSJ are, it would have been nice it this link had been posted earlier.

 

[InTheLight]

So, it's a bit of East Coast African American slang. As the Washington Post is not easily available out here, though the NY Times and WSJ are, it would have been nice it this link had been posted earlier.

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

 

[Squire Robertsson]

Without any explanation it was not as clear as it could have been.

 

[Zaac]

You see, the term, "okey-doke," meaning some sort of trick, game, scam, attempt to fool, shortchange, deceive or mislead, also came into use in the 1930s, principally among African Americans. And it obviously has a not-so-positive meaning. Okey-doke is the kind of thing you need to look out for, be aware of, against which you must keep up your guard. And, of course, in 1930s America, that, too, was a significant feature of the African American experience.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...key-doke-an-obamism-some-americans-dont-know/

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".

 

[Aaron]

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

Hate-filled, Racist popcorn.

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

 

[Use of Time]

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.

 

[Revmitchell]

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

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

 

[Zaac]

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.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

It hasn't been widely used with the negative sense in Northern California. Further, I have little to no contact with folks east of Reno, Nevada on a face to face basis. My family has lived west of the Continental Divide for over a hundred years.

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.

 

[righteousdude2]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...ca-not-fall-trump-okey-doke-article-1.2658228


President Obama warns about falling for Donald Trump’s ‘okey-doke’ during Indiana rally


President Obama has warned us about the newest threat of a Donald Trump presidency: Okey-doke.

It remains unclear what exactly okey-doke is in a political context, but as per Obama’s words, it relates to Trump and it certainly doesn’t sound too good.

“If we turn against each other based on divisions of race or religion, if we fall for a bunch of 'okey-doke,' just because it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative, then we're not going to build on the progress we started,” Obama told a rally crowd at Concord High School in Elkhart, Ind. Wednesday.

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.

 

[righteousdude2]

Thank you rsr.

The mic has been dropped on this foolish story. Certain folks want to frame the President as racist because he's black. And making him a racist helps them to feel better about their own racism and racial prejudice.

 

[Eric B]

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.

 

[carpro]

If "Okey-doke" was coded racist language of the Clintons, then it's the coded racist language of Obama.

That's carpo's point.

But the liberals and pseudo-consveratives in this thread know it. UoT and Zaac are lying. ITL and rsr are being deliberately obtuse to the accompaniment of their faithful snark-dog, Rolfe.

You win the prize. I believe the rest are being, as you say, deliberately obtuse. They just can't seem to help themselves.