Sunday, May 20, 2007

The Etymology of "White Trash"

Derogatory names for various classes of individuals abound, though some of them we cannot utter, today, with the impunity once granted their use.  You know the ones we can’t use, uttered by such individuals as Don Imus describing Rutgers women’s basketball team, or Ann Coulter talking about John Edwards, supposedly no one can utter the perjorative “nigga,” unless you’re a hip hopper or rapper that is, or Al Sharpton, oops scratch Sharpton, he can still use derogatory names with impunity for some reason.

The term “white trash” can still be used today, though, with nary a lifted eyebrow.  Where did this term arise, and when.  It may surprise you.

That Ain’t White

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

Posted by John Venlet on 05/20 at 04:52 AM
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