Is using the word ‘hood’ racist?

[Anonymous]

Hood is just a short term for “neighborhood”.

Just like when you refer to “let’s go to your crib” it’s just another way of saying “let’s go to your house”.

There’s nothing racial about any of those statements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like if you have to ask, it’s probably not appropriate for you to say, even if it’s not racist. Just because something isn’t racist doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

THANK YOU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you the way you are, OP?

Seriously...why?

Because this came up as an issue. I dont’ want to use a word considered to be offensive. That’s why I am the way I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you the way you are, OP?

Seriously...why?

Because this came up as an issue. I dont’ want to use a word considered to be offensive. That’s why I am the way I am.

Yeah but why would the word “hood” be considered racist? It literally is just the short version of neighborhood.

There’s no racial proponent with the word.

My 80 year old mother-in-law uses the term when she visits us and says either she’s coming to our “hood” or “your neck of the woods”.

In no way have I ever connected it with “hood= poor black people/ghetto”.

You should stop generalizing.

[Anonymous]

Saying someone is hood, not ok.
Talking about your neighborhood in a way that make you feel hip, laughable, but fine.
Saying someone else is from a right area, using “hood”, not ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saying someone is hood, not ok.
Talking about your neighborhood in a way that make you feel hip, laughable, but fine.
Saying someone else is from a right area, using “hood”, not ok.

I always thought calling someone a hood was short for hoodlum, which has nothing to do with neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

If you have to ask, then yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hood is just a short term for “neighborhood”.

Just like when you refer to “let’s go to your crib” it’s just another way of saying “let’s go to your house”.

There’s nothing racial about any of those statements.

I think if you're past your 20s you look silly saying hood or crib. I think there are two types of posters who are exceptionally bad for race relations. One is the liberal white who feels like, in order to be an ally, you have to call out random things as racist or offensive to. While this group is trying to be helpful, it only serves to diminish real incidents of racism because people start thinking, "here we go again, blacks whining about everything." The other group are white posters who aren't trying to help at all, but are trying to stoke discord between liberals and conservatives. Trying to get the, "oh the libtards are at it again" response. Both groups need to stop. The latter group won't do it voluntarily, but hopefully the former will get how counterproductive it is to focus on things like whether you can say "hood" when referring to your own neighborhood and just stop with the nonsense. Seriously, there are real acts of racism out there, let's save our outrage for those. I'm sick of hearing how blacks are "always crying racism," when a huge chuck of the time it's one of these two groups focusing on inconsequential stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying someone is hood, not ok.
Talking about your neighborhood in a way that make you feel hip, laughable, but fine.
Saying someone else is from a right area, using “hood”, not ok.

I always thought calling someone a hood was short for hoodlum, which has nothing to do with neighborhoods.

Calling someone hood is saying they act like they are from the ghetto. Calling someone a hoodlum is not attached to race or neighborhood. If you mean hoodlum, say hoodlum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After the tribe thread, I found a comprehensive list of offensive words. Here you go. https://bestlifeonline.com/offensive-sayings/

Wow....just wow!

I looked like the photos that accompany each definition while I was reading that list!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hood is just a short term for “neighborhood”.

Just like when you refer to “let’s go to your crib” it’s just another way of saying “let’s go to your house”.

There’s nothing racial about any of those statements.

I think if you're past your 20s you look silly saying hood or crib. I think there are two types of posters who are exceptionally bad for race relations. One is the liberal white who feels like, in order to be an ally, you have to call out random things as racist or offensive to. While this group is trying to be helpful, it only serves to diminish real incidents of racism because people start thinking, "here we go again, blacks whining about everything." The other group are white posters who aren't trying to help at all, but are trying to stoke discord between liberals and conservatives. Trying to get the, "oh the libtards are at it again" response. Both groups need to stop. The latter group won't do it voluntarily, but hopefully the former will get how counterproductive it is to focus on things like whether you can say "hood" when referring to your own neighborhood and just stop with the nonsense. Seriously, there are real acts of racism out there, let's save our outrage for those. I'm sick of hearing how blacks are "always crying racism," when a huge chuck of the time it's one of these two groups focusing on inconsequential stuff.

Are you the poster who got freaked out when someone says “it is what it is?” https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/858426.page

Besides that, I agree with you. It’s getting a bit ridiculous that white liberals are finding racism in common things that aren’t racist. People freaked out when there was a case of Africanized Bees on the west coast this past week and they thought it was racist....really?

I can literally see a world soon where places Taco Bell will considered to be racist one of these days because taco=Mexico=border wall=something something racisms.

[Anonymous]

+1000000 to the above posts. I do understand the instinct to call attention to the way our institutions, including our language, often reinforce racist messages. But do we have to shame people for using normal words that we have suddenly decided aren't okay?

Second, it's uncomfortable to think it is racist to use a term that originated in black slang. If that is the case, our language is literally defined by white culture and black culture is somehow untouchable. So if you can't say a word as mainstream as hood, what's next? I can't listen to hip hop? Eating collard greens is racist? Ridiculous. The flip side of "cultural appropriation" is completely ignoring a culture. Thank God our ancestors appropriated away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hood is just a short term for “neighborhood”.

Just like when you refer to “let’s go to your crib” it’s just another way of saying “let’s go to your house”.

There’s nothing racial about any of those statements.

I think if you're past your 20s you look silly saying hood or crib. I think there are two types of posters who are exceptionally bad for race relations. One is the liberal white who feels like, in order to be an ally, you have to call out random things as racist or offensive to. While this group is trying to be helpful, it only serves to diminish real incidents of racism because people start thinking, "here we go again, blacks whining about everything." The other group are white posters who aren't trying to help at all, but are trying to stoke discord between liberals and conservatives. Trying to get the, "oh the libtards are at it again" response. Both groups need to stop. The latter group won't do it voluntarily, but hopefully the former will get how counterproductive it is to focus on things like whether you can say "hood" when referring to your own neighborhood and just stop with the nonsense. Seriously, there are real acts of racism out there, let's save our outrage for those. I'm sick of hearing how blacks are "always crying racism," when a huge chuck of the time it's one of these two groups focusing on inconsequential stuff.

Are you the poster who got freaked out when someone says “it is what it is?” https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/858426.page

Besides that, I agree with you. It’s getting a bit ridiculous that white liberals are finding racism in common things that aren’t racist. People freaked out when there was a case of Africanized Bees on the west coast this past week and they thought it was racist....really?

I can literally see a world soon where places Taco Bell will considered to be racist one of these days because taco=Mexico=border wall=something something racisms.

I'm not the "it is what it is" poster. I missed that thread, but read the OP in the link you posted. Using "crib" to describe your house when you're past a certain age doesn't "irk" me, it just registers as out of place/silly and I move on.

[Anonymous]

I think "let me know next time you're going to be in my 'hood" is fine.

I would not say "you don't want to buy that house; it's in the hood."

[Anonymous]

I follow Doreen Gentzler, 6 pm Anchor on NBC4 News, on Instagram. Yesterday she posted a picture of some gorgeous trees in bloom in her “hood”.....she actually used the word “hood”. If you are a fan of Ch. 4 news, you know that she and the late Jim Vance, an African-American, were best of friends. They had the tightest bond, upmost respect for one another on and off the set. They meant the world to one another. Not only that, she is a very professional, classy, well poised journalist, with years of experience. I HIGHLY doubt that she would use the word “hood” on her IG account if it was a racial slur.

Life has a lot of daily stresses - we all have them. Life is full of challenges, daily. Today’s society is very uptight, angry, and ready to criticize one another constantly. This whole trend of everything is offensive has gotten out-of-control. It’s geting to the point of ridiculousness. When speaking in public, it’s getting to the point where you have no idea what you can say or not, are you going to offend someone? It’s seriously over-the-top ridiculous and it’s causing a lot of issues amongst our society.

I’m an Irish-America. The Irish are described as drunks, dumb, etc. Now that could easily offend me. I’m not a drunk nor dumb. Sure some Irish may be drunks, but so are Americans, Russians, Asians, African-Americans, etc. Do I go around crying foul? NO! I have too many other important things to do to let something so petty offend me.

This country use to be fun, friendly, less stressful. There are a lot of elements that are changing our society and how we think. But seriously, this trend of every single word offending someone is freaking out-of-control.