04-06-2007, 03:00 AM | #11 |
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I think it depends on its usage. If you are watching a team play that is entirely black, and you derisively call it "jungle ball", that may have racist connotations.
But if you are a Mormon scout leader and you refer to other troops only playing "jungle ball" on scout night, that is free of connotation, I think. When the guy on cougarboard says "Tell Dave Rose to get rid of the jungle ball, and let's implement the Princeton offense!" That has race written all over it. |
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I see it as disorganized ball, regardless of race. We need a new handy term, devoid or racial connotation to convey the same activity.
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Jungleball is racist. There are an enormous number of derogatory names for blacks that are related to the word "jungle." I doubt that this will change minds ofmost of the people that use the term and they will persist in using it. But to say that it is not racist is to sugarcoat it.
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Selfish basketball. Helter-skelter. Non-team oriented. None of them are in the regular parlance, or that catchy, but you can come up with your own.
The old version of eeny-meeny-miney-mo was racist too, but it doesn't mean that people who used it were racists particularly. I doubt people will stop using the term, but its origins are racist. |
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I want to copyright it, if you like it.
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Is gangster ball racial?
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