Where did the origin of "blue-gum" come from, the Louisanna blacks?
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You know I looked up your questions and I see you are very prejudice.  Well, you talk about blacks this and illegal immigrants.  Well everyone is created equal.  What makes you think you are better than anyone else?  You should take all this racism and divert it to putting time into learning about God.  Because if you know something about blacks, you know that we love God.  We don't have any devil worshipers that are black, maybe one in a million.  You can say you're saved all you want, but if you have all this hate for people who aren't white, you are not saved.  You brung up all these negative things about Martin Luther King, who cares?  President Bush did drugs.  We don't care if he changed his name or if he copied some books.  He stood up for us blacks and if it wasn't for him, we would still be slaves.  Let's say this man rescued you from a burning building, would you care if he changed his name or did prison time?  You don't worry about something like that when someone is trying to help people.  God is the only person who can judge someone.  I love being black.  I grew up in a small town that is 95 percent whites.  I have never ran across anyone who treated me or my family any different.  I love everyone.  No one is better than me and I am not better than anyone else.  There will always be prejudice people out there and noone can change that.  I will pray for you.  Our cultures are different, our names are different, our clothes are different, our music is different, and our language is different.  Face it every race is different.  We are on this earth together and we're not going anywhere.  Everywhere you look you will see Indians, blacks, Asians and other races.  America has all different races and cultures.  Embrace them, don't hate them.  What good is hating other races going to do?  What good is talking about them going to do?  Why do whites try to keep blacks down?  Black people had to work hard for what we have.  We don't have rich ancestors and we don't own many buildings and businesses.  Remember, the same time your ancestors were building there homes and businesses, my ancestors were working in them.  Cleaning them, taking care of their children, cooking, and doing every other thing that was at their disposal.  So for that, I love Martin Luther King or Michael(whatever his name was, I don't really care).  Because of him, I am not forced to clean up after you or anyone else from the white race.  And please don't call me uneducated, because I am working on my second degree and I finished at the top of my class.  I don't know, maybe you are not prejudice but it sure seems like it.\nOf course you are going to say you aren't.  Let a black man run for president then all the racist folk would come out and boycott and you would probably be the first in line.  Let your child bring home a black date and see how you respond.  I will pray for you.
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I call everything "coke".  I'm from Louisiana
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1855\nhttp://www.blackinventor.com/pages/josephdickinson.html
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Blueberry gum, a piece of celery, and a zebra ;)
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You may have read the gossip sweeping the Internet on the origin of the word picnic. Some claim that picnic is derived from lynching parties of blacks. This is incorrect.\n\nInstead, the origin on the word picnic is French (piquenique) and was invented long before the atrocities towards blacks took place in America. This French word - piquenique - signifies an outing with food - similar to the word's meaning in English. At these piqueniques, the attendees would all bring food to the occasion, similar to what we call potlucks today. The outdoor concept of a picnic did not originate until the 19th century.\n\nSo, how did this word originate? We are unsure what the word pique actually means. There are two options: leisurely eating (picking) or a delicacy of food. Nique was selected since it rhymed with Pique.\n\nHistorians have found this French word in references outside of the French language as early as 1748 and into English by around 1800.
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hm. check out gwendolyn brooks, she was the first black to win a pullitzer. "the bean eaters" (1960) was full of poems about racial injustice.\n\nrita dove comes to mind as well.\n\ntry langston hughes "theme for english b" poem . good stuff!!
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Gumbo and Jumbalaya are famously from Louisiana, not Mississippi, though there are some great sources of it here.\n\nMississippi is best known for Sweet Potatos. Varieties of greens, like turnip greens and collard greens. One that I had never heard of before I came here, but fell in love with is the purple hull pea. It is like a black eyed pea, but with a pink eye, and obviously a purple hull, and a heck of a better taste.
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W.F. Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patented chewing gum in 1869.\nchewing gum ? iunno i just searched on google
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Mississippi is a Southern state of the United States. The state takes its name from the Mississippi River, which flows along the western boundary. The name itself comes from either the Ojibwe, a Native American language spoken around the river's headwaters, or some other closely related Algonquian language, meaning "great river." Other nicknames attached to Mississippi are the Magnolia State and the Hospitality State.
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cracker originates from the slaves days refering to a whip cracker or a slave driver/ owner.  it is more meant to mean that you are still racist and treat black people poorly.  i personally think it is not that big of a deal and there are was worse slurs out there.
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Bla' is old norse meaning blue :-)\n\nAdopted in Scotland "Bla Bheinn" means Blue Hill
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There is an interesting history of the names that African Americans have chosen for themselves in the last 100 years or so. This is associated with the linguistic phenomenon called "pejorization" (words develop negative connotations).\n\nAbout 100 years ago, AA wanted to call themselves "colored" (for example, consider the NAACP). \n\nBut that became tainted and seemed old fashioned, so they moved to using "negro" (remember the United Negro College Fund). \n\nBut that became tainted and seemed old fashioned, so they moved to using "black" (remember "black power" and "black is beautiful, baby").\n\nBut that became tainted and seemed old fashioned, so they moved to using "Afro-American" (it was the 70's, with platform shoes and bell bottoms and disco, what can I say?).\n\nBut that seemed old fashioned, so they moved to using "African American" (I think Jesse Jackson initiated that, to be parallel with Italian Americans, or Jewish Americans, or German Americans, or Hispanic Americans, or Japanese Americans, etc). \n\nNow you can still sometimes here "people of color" if the person wants to be hip and cool (back to the colored nomenclature). \n\nThe "N" word has evolved from being probably a mispronounciation of the word "negro" to being simultaneously:\n1. the worst curse word that currently exists in American English, worse than the "C" word (which is much less controversial in the UK, and in French just means "silly"). Broadcasters in the US that allow the "N" word on the air can be subject to immense fines by the FCC. \n2. a hip, cool word used by rappers and gang-bangers (most of color, but some caucasian imitators).
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http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/bnccde/grenada/conference/papers/phillip.html\nhttp://www.everyculture.com/multi/Du-Ha/Grenadian-Americans.html
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http://bopedia.com/en/wikipedia/l/la/laestadian.html \n\nHere's a good place to find some info. They are followers of a religous movement founded by Lars Levi Lestadius who was a Swedish-Saami. He lived in the 19th century.
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The first bubble gum formulation, Blibber-Blubber, was developed in 1906 by Frank Fleer. However, the gum was never marketed. In 1928, Walter Deimer, an employee of the Frank H. Fleer Company, improved the Blibber-Blubber formulation, resulting in the first commercially successful bubble gum, Dubble Bubble. Diemer colored his creation pink because it was the only food coloring he had at the time. Dubble Bubble's pink color set a tradition for nearly all bubble gums to follow.
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It came from the word "Negro" which is Spanish (I think) for the word black. In slavery times and for a while afterword, it was a more polite way to refer to black people (if polite can be used in this context at all). The 'n' word was a more derogatory, more crass derivative of the word "Negro".
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It is the rubber kangaroo, Kangaroous rubberii, found in those areas of Australia in which rubber trees owned by B.F. Goodrich are grown to make rubber for tires made in Akron.\n\nThis mascot has been very controversial since the early 1970s because of the environmental depredation caused by the Kangaroous rubberii feeding on B.F. Goodrich plantations.  Controversial control measures have included poisioning, shooting, and sterilizing the 'roos.  All have failed and the Kangaroous rubberii is now spreading throughout Oz, much to the chagrin of BFG.