^black snake moan.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
^black snake moan.[/quote]
Assuming that was an answer to me.
I’m kinda confused. Google didn’t help.
Heh people assume and ask the strangest things.
Where I’m from yellow bone isn’t common. People usually say yellow, yella, or hi yella.
Red bone is old and universal.
Someone made up that black bone crap.
Finally, you only refer to women of black decent as red bone. (If they qualify)
[quote]asusvenus wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
^black snake moan.[/quote]
Assuming that was an answer to me.
I’m kinda confused. Google didn’t help.[/quote]
It’s a movie where Samuel L. Jackson keeps a half naked Christina Ricci chained to a radiator.
Good movie.
Well I always thought “rebones” were creole cajuns and that the term was cultural rather than racial.
Edit: Redbones
red-bone is a common term among black men when referring to lighter skinned black women. my ex considered herself a red-bone.
when we first started dating and going out I often would here her male friends casually say to her “hey red”, stuff like that.
[quote]heavythrower wrote:
red-bone is a common term among black men when referring to lighter skinned black women. my ex considered herself a red-bone.
when we first started dating and going out I often would hear her male friends casually say to her “hey red”, stuff like that.
so I agree with you, I do not think it is as “racial” as a cultural thing. [/quote]
Still seems to be black slang though. I just thought it was a term that was fairly interchangeable with cajun, specifically creole.
I wonder if the history of the term comes from the Dominican Republic or other caribbean islands and was adopted as a general term?
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
Well I always thought “rebones” were creole cajuns and that the term was cultural rather than racial.
Edit: Redbones[/quote]
You do know that Creoles and Cajuns are two completely cultures right?
[quote]Soulja874 wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
Well I always thought “rebones” were creole cajuns and that the term was cultural rather than racial.
Edit: Redbones[/quote]
You do know that Creoles and Cajuns are two completely cultures right?[/quote]
I know in the deep swamp they mixed and have their own subculture.
I was under the impression that these labels had more to do with the racial make-up of the person than simply the skin color. Meaning facial characteristics, bone structure (in the face), and hair have as much to do with the label as skin tone.
I find it hilarious that a group of (from what I can tell) primarily white men is debating terms black people use amongst themselves. 
i find it hilarious that you do not think that a Hispanic man who grew up in a city which is about 70% black and in college and as a young man dated primarily black women, and even married one and had two children with, somehow is disqualified from having anything to say in this matter.
[quote]heavythrower wrote:
i find it hilarious that you do not think that a Hispanic man who grew up in a city which is about 70% black and in college and as a young man dated primarily black women, and even married one and had two children with, somehow is disqualified from having anything to say in this matter.
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he got ya there LEW 
but Lew made a funny observation. it is…shall we say…ironic?
[quote]heavythrower wrote:
i find it hilarious that you do not think that a Hispanic man who grew up in a city which is about 70% black and in college and as a young man dated primarily black women, and even married one and had two children with, somehow is disqualified from having anything to say in this matter.
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Snap.
I can say I’ve lived in Michigan my whole life and I have never heard any of these phrases before… and I’ve had black roommates. It might be a black-on-black thing, I really don’t know, but I highly doubt those are terms that are used around here - at all.
I highly doubt I would ever use these terms outside of a huge group of black dudes.
[quote]SSC wrote:
[quote]heavythrower wrote:
i find it hilarious that you do not think that a Hispanic man who grew up in a city which is about 70% black and in college and as a young man dated primarily black women, and even married one and had two children with, somehow is disqualified from having anything to say in this matter.
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Snap.
I can say I’ve lived in Michigan my whole life and I have never heard any of these phrases before… and I’ve had black roommates. It might be a black-on-black thing, I really don’t know, but I highly doubt those are terms that are used around here - at all.[/quote]
Question…but why do you think guys would say that around you at all unless you would be considered familiar with it?
Guess what, most black dudes probably weren’t using “nigga” between themselves and other white guys as a purely neutral exchange of calling someone “man” or “bro” before possibly very recently.
These are terms I have heard my whole life but ONLY when around a bunch of other black dudes. It is not meant to be derogatory…and yeah, it is funny to see people outside the culture critiquing it and what it means.
To me, if you look at the female singing group TLC, “T-boz” was “yellow bone”. “Chili” was “red bone”. From where I grew up, it referred more to girls who looked like they were from Native American descent and black (red bone). T-boz should be obvious.
Origins the South. (not sure what part)
Not sure what group started it white ref to black or Black ref to each other but it came from the south.
Red Bone - Light Skinned
High Yellow- really Light skinned
Black Bone(never heard of that Shyt)
But like all slang it morphed from region to region. Like In BKLYN we use to call a girl with nice round butt “Thick” or she’s packin “junk in the trunk” but then it left the area an now any chick with a wide ass uses the phrase.
Sigh but it’s lies all lies alas your ass is not thick…just wide. Tear.
Pick the Yellow Bone.
LOL
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Pick the Yellow Bone.
LOL[/quote]
T-boz was High yella