New Jersey Governor Refers to a Black Man as a “Boy”
As if he’s not having enough trouble already, New Jersey governor Chris Christie is getting a lot of heat for referring to a black man as “boy” during a recent townhall meeting. Speaking to an audience that appeared to be mostly black, the man stood up and told Christie to fix the public schools. That’s when Christie’s unfortunate remarks came spewing from his lips.
The remarks have gone viral on the Internet, since the word “boy” has long been used as a substitute for the n-word among those who disrespect African Americans. Even worse for Governor Christie is that he was just criticized this week for referring to the race and gender of a black female political rival. Democratic rival Sheila Oliver has been a critic of the governor’s plans for public schools and he wasn’t too happy about that either.
The exchange in the church was videotaped by NJToday. The man that Christie was speaking to was Mike Henry.
Here is what Christie said in response to Henry standing up and yelling at him: “You can yell all you want about ‘fix the public schools.’ Yeah, I hear ya, boy, I hear ya. I hear what you’re saying, but let me tell you something else. What I hear is the despair, I hear the despair of folks all over this state.”
When some people in the room asked for Henry to be put out for interrupting the governor, Christie defended his right to stay in the room. The debate was a heated exchange about the difference between promoting school choice or fixing deteriorating public schools.
“We can yell and scream at each other, or we can try to answer the questions. Listen, sir, I’m not asking you to leave. Guess who’s running the show? Me, not them. I don’t want you leaving. You want to yell and scream? Yell and scream. That’s the way it goes. Everybody gets their chance to do something, but you’ve got to give me the chance to answer the question, okay? And I don’t want people yelling to kick somebody out. It wouldn’t be the way I’d act, but you know what? I invited everybody here, so I’m going to let everybody stay until we’re done,” he said.
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I have told you these republicans can’t stand our President have black blood. Remember the TEA Party mission? TEA Partiers mission was not to reduce tax. It was to vent their frustrations our President was Black. Remember when Congress people were going to sign the ACA. These TEA Partiers spat saliva on Black lawmakers.
I wish y’all would stop all this rePOOPlikkklan and demonRATic bullshyt because ALL of these political crackers hate you negroids!
This fat slob is the same cracker that O’Drama was huggin’ when that man-made storm hit Jersey and New York not too long ago. Now, this redneck hillbilly is calling a Black man a ‘boy’.
Do y’all think these crazy crackers are gonna change from their wicked ways? If you do, you’re just as STUPID and DUMB, as they are.
I’m gone!
Well said, as usual. Have a good evening.
You call yourselves N8ggahs and Dog, and yet you’re offended when a white man calls you boy. grow up and spend your time focused on issues that matter, like jobs, education, the death of our communities, and drugs. NEGRO PLEASE STOP BEING STUCK ON STUPID.
BOYCE WHY DONT YOU FOCUS ON THE FACT THAT NUMBER ONE NEGRO MICHAEL JORDAN IS SO LOW LIFE HE DOESNT EVEN WANT TO TAKE A PATERNITY TEST AND BE HAPPY ABOUT HAVING A SON???
YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO TALK ABOUT LIL WAYNE WHO IS A GREAT FATHER, BUSINESSMAN, TALENT, EMPLOYS BOYS AND GET THEM OUT OF THE DRUG BUSINESS, AND IS A GREAT BABYDADYY BUT YOU SAY NOTHING ABOUT YOUR MAIN STREAM NEGROES AND THEIR LOW LIFE BEHAVIOR
Denise my sister, are you really comparing Lil Wayne and MJ? Your sounding like a mad black woman that’s young and still uninformed. MJ has your brother, son, and as young as you sound your father wanting to be like MJ. Lil Wayne is harming an whole generation of our people with his self benefiting lyrics degrading women and hyping up drugs. He has negatively effected you and you don’t even realize it YET, but hopefully one day soon you will. MJ is not perfect as non of us are, but he’s not doing or have done anything to harm a generation. Lil Wayne is a danger to himself and all those that listen to him.
I hope the best for you sister. Stay strong.
Are x*x movies harming a whole generatiion?
Are video games that give u a pretend gun, teaching children to kill?
Are strip clubs contributing to young black mothers prostituting and drugging?
Are gambling casinos taking food out of black childrens’ mouth and rendering people homeless?
Are drugs a cause of major family breakdown?
AND ARE old fools like Michael Jordan contributing to the demise of the black community when they take their affirmative action wealth and marry everyone but a black american woman? His first wife Juanita was a DOMINICAN (not a black american) and now he is set to marry a White cuban who wont even speak to the average american black person. AND to top it off, this fool will leave his entire legacy and fortune to CUBANS. Money that should be kept in the Black AMERICAN community.
This fool Michael Jordan INSPIRED TEENS TO MURDER OVER HIS GYM SHOES. If he were a decent human being he would give some kind of reparation to the families of those children.
Now to top it off, the son he had with an AMERICAN black woman, he hasnt supported his whole life, and doesnt even want to call him son.
This JORDAN NEGRO IS SO BRAINWASHED BY THAT WHITE CUBAN DESCENDANT OF THE CUBAN SLAVE MASTER PROBABLY GOT HIM THINKING HE WHITE AND CUBAN TOO. WITH ALL OF WHAT SHE IS FEEDING THAT FOOL TO GET HIM TO MARRY HER, HE PROBABLY REALLY BELIEVES IT.
WHAT AN IDIOT.
HE IS NO ROLE MODEL ON HOW TO GAIN AND RETAIN WEALTH IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
HE HAS INSPIRED TEENAGERS TO MURDER OVER HIS GYM SHOES.
AND HE IS NOT A MAN TO BE LOOKED UP TO. REAL MEN TAKE CARE OF ALL THEIR CHILDREN, AND ARE NOT ASHAMED OF THE ONLY ONE WHO IS BLACK AMERICAN LIKE HIM.
Vic n VA, you put that so kind, i couldn’t have explained better.
I thought Lil Wayne would be one headed towards an overdose or something. He is Rich but does not seem Thankful for the blessings.
Can’t wait for the day he is older and preaching or joining the crusade against Gangsta-Violence, Pimping and Hoes. *If he live that long*
It is not what you are called. It is what you answer to!
Even stupid racist White folks know how to provoke and manipulate weak Black folks into rage and riot…..Look at what those White Wall Street Radicals are doing to those brain dead Black folks in East New York, Brooklyn. One Arab immigrant cop and a Hispanic cop, shot and killed a 16 year Black teenager,alleging he pointed at gun at them. The kid was shot 11 times with 4 shots in the back……??? In come the White folks into the Black community encouraging civil protest in the form of a riot and confronting the police. Stores were looted, innocent people beaten and cars firebombed,etc,. All within an already economic depressed Black community under going subtle gentrification by middle class Whites, Asians and Hasidic Jews….Why would Blacks riot over the death of a young gangbanging criminal with a gun or not. Had he been in school and home doing his home work and studying, he would be alive today………d**n, if we are going to fight, let`s fight for Civil Rights, better schools, job development and job training, equal opportunity housing, affordable medical care, against an unjust criminal justice system, teenage pregnancy,etc, and not for some brain dead Black criminal shot down by police officers. The Crips, Bloods and drug dealing criminals kill each other within the Black community 24/7. Even shooting innocent people, children and babies in the cross fir., where is the Black protest about this issue..?????
I agree whole heartedly with your comment. The only reason that the republicans can’t get anything done in Washington is because they can’t deal with a black man telling them what to do. It’s Willey Lynch all over again. Republicans complain that President Obama lacks leadership. It’s not that; they lack followship. It’s this same high and mighty attitude that is sending this country back to segregation and many blacks are too blind to see. It’s easier to play the blame game instead of making the negativity out to be a lie. Many of the younger generation are defeated because they do not believe in themselves as productive members of society. They allow themselves to be stereotyped, corrupt of morals, and down right disrespectful. This is the choice they make to become. So who is really to blame?
When you’re a politician you should be very mindful of your word choices. I don’t think the intent was racist but when the word comes out, it is up for interpretation.
Ro Walt Doug · Adjunct Professor at Baltimore City Community College
I am a black man and I think the word boy was taken out of context. He used it stress his feelings, I.e. boy do I hate peas!
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You are the type of male negroid, who I speak about on this site!
If a Black man called you a ‘boy’, you would be ready to shoot him, but since this racist cracker used the word, it’s taken out of context! And, the negroid female, who agreed with you probably sucks cracker’s little pe.nises!!!
DA.MN! Y’all negroids are sick!!!
I’ve got to agree with Ro Walt Doug. He was not calling him a boy. He was saying “Boy, do I hear ya”.
To you and your caucasoid sidekick:
It’s called ‘code language’, and I’m hip to you cracker’s code language!
You can fool these slave azz negroids, but not me!
See ya, boy!
Derrick the Negroid, is at it again
Spewing all that hot air and providing no real substance
I guess ‘Mental Trips’ are popular online.
but Derrick N, He ain’t easy and he ain’t no Brother.
The people who are bent out of shape are just showing that they don’t know how we speak when it’s not black slang. The governor didn’t cast a slur. Stop being so sensitive.
You and your sidekick are clowns! You come on this site with all that mumbling, talking out of the side your necks, and speaking with forked tongues, these negroids don’t OVERstand your mumblings, and code language.
I bet if, I called you a ‘gal’; you would be ‘bent out of shape’!
See ya, gal!
And, that ain’t no Black slang, either! That’s a honkey slang!
THEREFORE, STOP BEING SO SENSITIVE OF THE TRUTH!!!
I hear ya, man.
I am 69 yrs old black male. I live in the south and the word “boy” has always been used to demean and lowrate black men. We were called “boy” until we got gray hair, them we were called “uncle”. Never man…..
I am a 61 yr old Black female and I have lived in the South most of my life, but this is not a Southern thing. This is in every state in the nation. I experienced the most racism in the state of New York, California and in the city Maryland. It is every where. I have also experienced what Derrick speaks of also. I have found that if you tell the truth about what is happening to you, the second to call you out will be those of your own race. My oldest brother got so mad because I made a true statement about a white person, that I thought he was going to have a stroke. Keep on taking up for them and deriding your own. They will not have to destroy us, we will certainly destroy ourselves. That is a fact.
@Bobbie Woody: “This is in every state in the nation.”
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Like Brother Malcolm X once said, you have racism in the NORTH, as well as the South!!!
They found two Black men hanging from the SAME TREE in Delaware in 2010. Another brother escaped from being hung this past September 2012!!! A Black woman had to CRAWL 25 MILE to escape from being enslaved!!! This was in 1960!!!
She also said caucasoid corporations are ENSLAVING OUR PEOPLE, RIGHT NOW…in Mississippi, and Alabama!!!
Slavery NEVER ended…it’s just MODERNIZED, like Brother Malcolm X said! Just sit back and watch, how weak these negroids are toward caucasoids, today! I see these smiling Chucky Cheese negroids ALL DAY LONG when it comes to being around crackers!
Sister Woody, these negroids are so scared of crackers, they don’t even want to hear the Truth! They’ll beLIEve a cracker before they will believe me! Just look at this site, and look at the comments above where a grown azz negroid male, said, this cracker’s commments were “taken out of context”.
This co.on reminds of the negroid male, who wanted to go back to his massa when Harriet Tubman was trying to FREE our people. She told that pvnk, he will DIE A SLAVE, or DIE FIGHTING FOR HIS FREEDOM…he finally proceeded.
This is what integration and religion did to the negroid male…it weakened him, and the results are showing!
Peace Family!!!
It appears to me that Gov. Christie meant nothing cynical (here in this context) with his off-the-cuff expression, “boy”. Having grown up in the South in the Civil Rights Era, I believe that I know just when a White man is speaking derogatorily to a Black man. Christie’s remark does not pass the test. It just shows that the governor doesn’t know how to check his words as a White man who wants to make a dent in the Black vote.
Christie is another Mitt Romney, of sorts! Christie as President would go all over the world inadvertently insulting various nations and ethnic groups, simply because he just doesn’t know better.
But we Blacks need to monitor ourselves as well. We need to start picking our public battles. We can easily alienate other voter groups by our complaining about every little perceived insult!
So, let’s spend our energy in areas wherein we can get the greatest benefits. Because if every eligible Black voter were determined to vote in every election, all politicians who felt that they had a prayer to be elected would all but genuflect and address Blacks as royalty each time they came into our churches and communities. We have so much untapped power to move and shape elections! Yet, we continue to “major in the minors”.
We Blacks need a ten-point national plan: five for what we can do to help ourselves and five for what we need others to do for us. It’s way, way past time for us to stop “addressing” Black problems. WE need to begin solving our own problems! There are so many problems in our Black communities, schools, and homes that Chris Christie cannot solve . . . that President Barack Obama cannot [and will not] solve! And if we want to stem and eradicate the proliferation of Black-on-Black crime, school drop outs, births to irresponsible and immature parents who must feed themselves and their children at the public trough, and ignorance of the benefit of owning our own homes and businesses, the we must look inward for the answers and hold ourselves accountable! Because as we point one finger at others for our difficulties as a people, four more are pointing right back at us!
Black MEN seldom call each other BROTHER or MAN, TODAY. They use their caucasoid counterpart’s words, such as, GUY instead of MAN, and minority male, instead of ‘brother’.
If you OBSERVE negroid people, they ALWAYS address caucasoid males, as ‘the white man’, which is a misnomer. They are NOT A MAN, BUT SOME KIND OF man, i.e. “APEman” to be excact!!!
Negroids have been TRAINED to call these demonic devils a ‘man’, since our forced enslavement. Does a man ENSLAVE another MAN, because of the color of his skin? IS THAT A MAN, or a BEAST? Does a man, SODOMIZE, RAPE, DIVIDE and DEGRADE another MAN because of the color of his skin? This is what caucasoid males did to Black men during our forced enslavement and, which is also being done today to our Black men youth!!! IS THAT A MAN, or is that a PU.NK AZZ BEAST?
Words, such as, ‘the man’, or ‘he’s the man’, and ‘the white man’ ALWAYS put caucasoid males at the FRONT of the line! They feel they are privileged to be called a ‘man’, but behind closed doors, they are nothing, but RACIST PU.NKS, who HATE THE TRUE MAN…THE BLACK MAN!!!
Deal wit it!!!
If they were ‘men’, they would not be acting like, BOYS! If they don’t get their way; they would not be throwing tantrums, and acting like little boys, which is who they really are!!!
THAT cracker KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING!!!
I believe that Derrick makes a very good point. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Granted, we Black people need to begin to regard ourselves as having as much worth as the White man thinks he has of himself. White folk, in general, all but worship their white skin, features, and culture. Most seem to believe that everything and everybody else is secondary to them. But, God doesn’t see it that way. He looks at the heart and not at our outer appearances. The Word tells all of us not to think MORE highly of ourselves than we ought. Yet it does tell us all to think highly of ourselves, nonetheless. Could it be that, in general, we Blacks do no think highly of ourselves as a people at all?
Black folk have as much and, perhaps, maybe a tad bit more natural and untapped talent than other groups. But WE don’t yet know it! When we do discover that the Black man’s ice is just as cold as the White man’s or any other’s and that no group has a monopoly on intelligence, then we may see ourselves the way God created us all . . . from one blood (Acts 17:26).
I am certain that the governor’s usage of the word “boy” was taken out of context.
This is the real christie coming out.If he were not a boy he would not have spoken in that fashion.The problem is with him not us so donot take it.”If a man gives you a gift and you donot receive it
, to whoom does the gift belong? Answer ” To the giver.So the problem is with christie. Donot take it.He got it.
If I were as ugly as christie I would shut up and be nice to compensate.
Fat boy was wrong for calling him boy. It’s a undertone thing. Just like me calling him fat boy . But he is a FatBoy. He got three stomachs one for meat the other Vegestables the other for cakes and pies.
That’s so funny!
So what!
We spend so much time on such a small thing, Isn’t the names we’ve called Christe and other whites balance enough! How about the names we call each other?
Come on people, way to much energy is being expended on such trivia!
It’s not any wonder we can’t get anything else accomplished.
Well we all can say things from time to time and when you hear “yourself” speak, whether you are right or wrong when you are really meaning well, you correct it immediately, by say “I am sorry what I meant to say …….and do it right then ….when your heart is right it’s the heart of a man.
Did anyone read this part of the article
“”When some people in the room asked for Henry to be put out for interrupting the governor, Christie defended his right to stay in the room. The debate was a heated exchange about the difference between promoting school choice or fixing deteriorating public schools.
“We can yell and scream at each other, or we can try to answer the questions. Listen, sir, I’m not asking you to leave.”"
For those who are ignorant of their own history. It would be okay for a white male to call an African American Male a boy. They also would see no harm in a white male calling them n***a. Both are just a words to them with no significant historical context.
Just think, I was feeling sorry for him when the republicans did not invite him to their meeting last week. I also felt kind of sorry for him when everyone was hasseling him about his weight a couple of months ago. I really don’t know if he meant boy in the cracker sense or boy in the general sense. I really don’t want to view the video and try to figure it out. All I can say now is that this big greasy pig can bite me!!
I guess one way to look at Governor Christie’s comment is to say he didn’t mean nothing by it however on the other hand lets remember that people like the New Jersey Governor have either fancy well-paid PR people around them advising them on words that could appear to be, or are regarded as derogatory to the particular target audience they speaking to.
Other than that I don’t believe that Governor Christie is so ignorant to a point where he’s so naive to, or unaware of the racially negative ‘boy’ connotation often used against us by white people throughout our sojourn here in the west.
These white elected officials, Republican or Democrat, come into our community and regularly speak to Black audiences with impunity for two reasons;
1. they can always appeal to ne-groes who are either within their party ranks or share their imperialistic ideologies to quiet-down the ‘field ne-groe’ types who speak up & out against our injustices
2. they can always count on our disunity
Ask yourself a question, do you think elected officials like Christie would be so lose-lipped when it comes to Irish, Jewish, Italian, Chinese communities??
Americans, our drawers are getting too tight. We find offense, in everything, lighten up and live.
Did the Jewish community say that Michael Jackson wasn’t being offensive when he used the word ‘kyke’ in his song “They Don’t Really Care About Us”?
I wonder what ‘context’ MJ was speaking into when he used this term?
Don’t remember the song being sung to intentionally hurt Jews bearing in mind MJ’s track record where he does NOT express any kind of racial hatred in ANY of his songs for example; “Doesn’t Matter if your Black or White”, “Heal the world”, “What About Us”, etc etc etc.
Like I said in so many words on one of my posts last week, we love to make excuses for caucasians by giving them the benefit of the doubt when 99.9% of the time he neither deserves or need it…and he’s only 1% out due to divine mercy and benevolence!!
Now, you see what its like trying to ‘wake up’ my people!
If negroids would show the ‘love’ they have for caucasoids, (who HATE them), and start showing MORE love for their OWN BLACK kind, perhaps this self-hate would start to come to a close.
Remember, they (khazars) used Mike’s doctor, as a scapegoat! His sister ran this down on a tell-a-LIE-vision show after they arrested him! He was not licensed to get those HARD CORE drugs (which were only to be used on hospital patients); therefore, the REAL murderers, who gave him those drugs should have been arrested, and BEHIND BARS, TOO!!!
THEY DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT US!!!
I’m do tired if us blowing things out if proportion. We need to fight these “in your face” prejudice republicans who let you know you belong back in slavery. We need to clean up our own backyards and show the world, and ourselves that we are first rate citizens of this country and then we can demand respect.
AS a resident of the LILLY White state of NJ; I must admit that Christie is Loved by those who are impressed with his style of BULLYING, and as a Bonus — they really Love how harsh and disconcerned he express himself towards Black Folk.
Peace to all those who have the strength to keep it real with themselves– stay strong!
AS a resident of the LILLY White state of NJ; I must admit that Christie is Loved by those who are impressed with his style of BULLYING, and as a Bonus — they really Love how harsh and disconcerned he express himself towards Black Folk.
Peace to all those who have the strength to keep it real with themselves– stay strong!