God! (What's it like to be old and unaware?)
How is "Bye Felicia" NOT racist as H*ll ???
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cawacko
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Haha. It's an expression used as a very dismissive way to say good bye to someone as in Get The F Outta Here. I've never seen it used as a racial thing.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
The character is a Black woman who keeps asking for Free Shit ... over and over again, like a broken record. Now, you know.
cawacko
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The way I've seen it used it has nothing to do with someone asking for things, one can say Bye Felicia for a number of reasons
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Yes, dismiss them as "horrible" people on the same level with the stereotype character, Felicia.
Instead of "White Boy Bigdog' giving meaning to the phrase, why not let Afro-centric Guno describe it's meaning?
cawacko
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There's no question it's a dismissive term. It's saying get out of my face.
In the context that it's used I think you are taking too literally the actions of the character Felicia in the movie. It's become a meme saying 'get the F away'
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
A dog whistle meme with racist misogynist liberal roots.
At least "Mammy" was a strong loving black woman.
You're going to claim that Black folk don't know that Felicia is a negative Black female stereotype?
No, I'm claiming that to the Black people I know, that this is news to them.
But then again ...
I probably don't hang out with the same type of people you know that use negative Black female stereotype.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
lol @ "the black people I know".
Funny shit, you just pointed out you don't hang out with black people. question is why? you are more like CFM every day.
Felicia is a Black entitled female mooch. And yet, when Mooch Obama uses that derogatory racist term, ... white dems think it's hilarious.
What? It's a line from a movie. How is it racist? How is it a term? It's a phrase. I'm not seeing your point.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
I already covered the fact that the Felicia character is a negative Black racial female stereotype, ... earlier in the thread.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
/shrugs.....I had no idea there was a movie called Friday.......my kids used this as a joke for years......I have even used it on my daughter when she was being unusually annoying......
cawacko
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Everyone has their own tastes but it was a great movie imo. Yeah, the Bye Felicia line caught on and has been used as a meme ever since. I've heard adults and kids use it
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
“Bye, Felisha” is a line spoken by Ice Cube’s character, Craig, in the 1995 cult, stoner, comedy film Friday. While smoking a joint with his friend Smokey, he is approached by Felisha, a local girl who constantly annoys the neighborhood with her begging and attempts to mooch off others. After her request to borrow Smokey’s car is met with total refusal, she turns to Craig for support, and, rather than offer to help or defend her, he looks away and simply says “Bye, Felisha” in a dismissive tone.
The term bye Felicia has been popular in Black culture since the 1990s when the film was released, although the spelling of the name has changed to the more common (and, some would point out, more “white”) spelling: Felicia. It reemerged in pop culture and became a more mainstream phrase when the reality TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race started using it regularly around 2009.
Bye Felicia is considered by some to be yet another example of white culture appropriating black culture without knowledge of the original source material. Friday, the film from which the phrase originates, has been a popular and beloved cult classic in modern American black culture, though the phrase’s sudden rise in popularity is several times removed from the film. It’s important to keep all this context in mind when using or encountering the phrase.
The social acceptability of the phrase has also come into question since the release of the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton by F. Gary Gray, the same director who made 1995’s Friday. In Straight Outta Compton, there is a scene that was initially thought to be a depiction of the bye Felicia origins. The scene involved an orgy in a hotel room and the forceful removal of a woman named Felicia, ending with Ice Cube echoing his original delivery of “Bye, Felicia” in a much more violent and misogynistic context than in Friday. Although the filmmakers have clarified that the scene was a fictitious depiction of bye Felicia’s origins, some felt that the aggressive and misogynistic scene tainted the phrase.
A random 'yotch.
White libs don't even know what that means