'Peace, [here's an example of my Virgo nit picking-you introduced Bert to someone who isn't posting on this thread.
You said "memyself" when actually the poster's name is "meself".'

Just to add to the general confusion: Peace is using an earlier incarnation of my handle - I was going by "memyself" until an otherwise troublesome person in the course of a sputtering post began addressing me as "meself" - whether that was just a slip or a deliberate attempt to corrupt my name I don't know, but I decided I preferred it, and started using it. You know, just like teenage girls always try out various spellings and other variations on their names before finally settling on the one they feel they can live with ...


'Since only rich people drove cars then, black prostitutes knew a honking horn meant a rich payday. Therefore, the word 'honkie' came to fruition.[citation needed]'

"Citation needed" indeed. Sounds like classic 'fakelore' to me.

But on the subject of "honky": It's always struck me that - Azizi can correct me if I'm wrong - Black people have never collectively embraced a truly demeaning term for White people - perhaps some of the militants alluded to above hoped that would happen, but it seems to me that "honky" is generally spoken with more of a smirk than a sneer. And I never got the sense that it was really widely used - again, Azizi's take on that would be welcome ... !