The most surreal scene in SoldiersWidowGate – the media’s feckless anti-Trump controversy du jour – was Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) bristling at being called an “empty barrel,” which she called a “racist term.”
(White House Chief of Staff John Kelly used it to blast the legislator for her attack on the president’s supposedly insensitive comments toward a military widow, which Wilson had witnessed.)
Bizarrely, Wilson said she was unaware the term was racist until “we looked it up in the dictionary.” She hasn’t named the dictionary, and fact etymologists and experts at racial linguistics have never heard of the term. It’s certainly not listed in the Racial Slur Database (a real thing) among its thousand or so terms with a supposed anti-black connotation.
Many of those “slurs” sound perfectly unobjectionable, at least to those without hyper-sensitive racial antennae. For example, several foods are itemized: apple (hangs from a tree), butter (sounds like you-know-what), cookie (black sailors could once only work in the kitchen), and jellybean (“everybody hates the black ones”).
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