when did the word thug become a raciest word ...meaning a black person...I have always thought a thug was someone like a bully and a large person that may kill you if in the mafias or in prisons ... a bouncer in a club... someone doing crimes... someones body guard ... but they say now ...it is use to mean... something very racial ...
if blacks want to be known for that... what ever... but not the first thing that comes to mind... when saying someone is a thug ...

i didn't know "thug" went racist... it means gangster, not a color...

Don't think it is a word with racist connotations. It's a 'lifestyle' choice. Lots of 'musicians' have co-opted it and it's made its way into the Urban dictionary but it's not inherently racist.

It's just a way for folks with little else to base self-esteem on to set themselves apart. 'Hey! Look at me!'

Example. ..
I'm just Thug like that.


#ThugLife #Attitude


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didnt no it was raciest, why do you think its raciest?,,been called kracker 100 times,,just made me laugh,,,

historical A member of an organization of robbers and assassins in India. Devotees of the goddess Kali, the Thugs waylaid and strangled their victims, usually travellers, in a ritually prescribed manner. They were suppressed by the British in the 1830s.

The above is from Google and the English Oxford dictionary. But in more modern times,and to me,the closest description would be 'bully'.I don't see it having anything to do with race now,other than it's origin.

There ya have it!

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I think the term "gangster" is used in the blacks rap music world.. self coined by them. I would assume taken from the term used to describe the Mafia.

But I have never affiliated thug with blacks or heard that term used exclusively for blacks. I have heard it used for criminals.. of any color or race.

I agree,and it's a word used to describe them by others,not something used by themselves...

iam confused why anybody wood think its a raciest term,,,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thug

I think this thread has oversimplified the subject a bit.

It's not that "thug" has become a racist term. What has happened, is that on several occasions, people who used the word "thug" to refer to some black people they were critical of, who appeared to those accusing them of racism, to be using the term ONLY for black people who behaved in that way.

In particular, after Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman responded very intensely and in an angry-sounding way to post game questions by Erin Andrews, several commentators described him as behaving like a thug. Since that term was not used to refer to similar behavior from anyone else, they were accused of using it for racial reasons.

Add to that, that ongoing racial sensitivity means that people who want to express their racism publicly, have to use cover words and phrases, and the suspicion that "thug" has become one of those, is to be expected.

Yep....thats the word on the skreet.....

Again, they brought it on themselves with their kind of music, if you can call it that. They wanted it that way, and it stuck, read the WHOLE article about the recording companies.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thug

This is the only response you should listen to. This lady knows her thug.

Ohhh.. thug..... not thong....hmm..

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I thought of thug as kind of a slang word. A ruffian or lowlife. Maybe even a bully.

Whenever you started feeling there were racial connotations to it?

Other than that, any word can have racial connotations if a person wants to put them in, or see them.


Who's "they?"

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