Can't make this stuff up. Guy thinks Who Dey is somehow related to racist minstrel shows in New Orleans from the late 1800's. Who Dey chant was created during the 1981 Super Bowl season as a take on Who They think going to beat those Bengals, and Hudepohl beer or Hudey for short, by local Cincy fans primarily of German decent who didn't know a dam thing about New Orleans. Who Dey / Hudey.


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“Who Dey” does invoke a sense of call-and-response, and that’s because it is a phrase that approximates Black English, likely tracing it’s roots back to New Orleans and minstrel shows at the turn of the 20th century.

That minstrel shows were an embodiment of racism is obvious to everyone these days. But is it appropriate for a stadium filled with mostly white people (some of whom consume lots of alcohol and paint their bodies black and orange) to chant “Who Dey”? I’ll leave that for readers to consider. Whatever your conclusions, history is history, and we should remember it when we can – which is what disappoints me the most in The Enquirer’s recent feature on this piece of potentially troublesome Bengals trivia.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/.../76977706/

Since I'm local as well - "Oh the triggering!!!"

Lets stamp out something else harmless so some Idiot isn't triggered.

We must live in a pretty damn utopian place when this is a big worry........................

Racist ? Just because some fools choose to talk like that to be different ? No one race Owns a language. If You are American and are taught English but You choose to talk Ebonic style English, that's You choosing it but don't criticize people of other races if They wan't to talk Ebonic style English. It's Not copyrighted by any race.

(12-09-2015 10:26 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  Racist ? Just because some fools choose to talk like that to be different ? No one race Owns a language. If You are American and are taught English but You choose to talk Ebonic style English, that's You choosing it but don't criticize people of other races if They wan't to talk Ebonic style English. It's Not copyrighted by any race.

You are correct in saying no one race owns a language. Actually there are many who have linked connections between Ebonics and the British Isles.

When the slaves arrived on the continent they spoke the tribal language from whatever part of Africa they came from. It was illegal for them to learn to go to school to read or write. The whites they interacted the most with were the overseers and hands (both of whom came from the poor white class) who worked on the plantations. The slaves learned to communicate from this group of people and passed it down to their children. Dr. Walter Williams once wrote that Ebonics descended from "Redneck Culture".