Posted July 9, 2009 at 11:45am
desert boy (via postpacific). My old Wisco friend Erik who lives in Oslo is driving his eldest boy around the American West right now. Instead of drinking my freshman year of college at Madison we would read poetry. He’s now a well-known writer in Norway. I wish I could read his stuff but it’s all in consonants and cross-out letters.
Honky
“Honky is a corruption of hungy or hunky, a term which originated in the stockyards and slaughterhouses of Chicago. The term may derive from “Bohunk” (Bohemian-Hungarian), which was used to refer to central Europeans. Black and Hungarian workers were two of the largest ethnic groups in the Chicago meat industry. Racial and ethnic tension between the two groups led Black workers to begin calling Hungarian workers, and those perceived as Hungarians, hunky, perhaps in retaliation for the racist epithets to which blacks were subject. The corruption ‘honky’ emerged shortly thereafter.”
What’s up, Honky?
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