good dolphin wrote:
Walt Williams Neck wrote:
The Boogie Cousins of the NFL
It doesn't seem that people understand that boogie is a racist term
Holy shit, is it? That's completely news to me. I just call him Boogie because...I've hear other people call him Boogie, I guess, and never gave it a second thought.
Is the term derived from a racial pejorative, or one of the lower-order "coded" terms like "posse"?
EDIT:
Quote:
Q: (laughter) That's very good. How did you get the nickname Boogie and how do you think it stuck so far?
A: Coach Rod Strickland at Kentucky gave me the name. I would be playing ball and I would do moves that guards would do and coach Strickland said, "Man, you got a lot of Boogie." Every time I walked into the gym he would say, "What's up Boogie!" and it just stuck.
Derived from the non-pejorative definition of "boogie", so not actually racist, or at worst, racist only in the way "posse" is racist (i.e. you're racist if you use it while disparaging LeBron)