Is that a racist phrase?
no....it stopped being a race phrase as far back as 1970...
Here you go write these folks, they'll take up your cause.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6806502.ece
I got called the Great White Hope as a freshman in high school by my black teammates because I made the JV team. Of course my black friends/teammates were probably just saying it because it was institutional racism that they didn't know better.
Is it racism when people are called The Great White Dope?
That depends entirely on the context it's used. If the context is your dental hygenist then no, it is not. If you're refering to Obama's opponent in 2012, then yes it is.Is that a racist phrase?
They knew it was racsist and used it as a joke dude.
they were black and you were white and they used the phrase on a white boy.
I think that pretty much confirms it is racist
They knew it was racsist and used it as a joke dude.
they were black and you were white and they used the phrase on a white boy.
I think that pretty much confirms it is racist
http://www.bnd.com/news/weird_news/story/898820.html
Rep. Lynn Jenkins: GOP looking for 'great white hope' to thwart Obama
The Associated Press E-Mail
Text Size: tool nameclose tool goes here TOPEKA, Kan. -- U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a "great white hope" to help stop President Barack Obama's political agenda.
Videotape shows Jenkins, a Republican, making the comment at an Aug. 19 forum. She was discussing the GOP's future after Democrats took control of the House and Senate and the presidency went to Obama, the nation's first black president. Jenkins is white.