Why is Pookie used as a derogatory term?

[desjardins]

Honestly don't remember people using it like that after New Jack City. It kind of went dormant unless you were talking about the literal movie character until Obama bought it back.

 

[TEH]

Anyone who ever ever in life met a Pookie in real life would never ask this question.

 

[Voice of Reason]

The "Pookie" ridicule is rooted in xenophobia and racism against Black Americans.

The notion of "ghetto" names is nonsensical and doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

One of my homies who is actually over the hospital kitchen staff nickname is Pookie.
Everyone been calling him that since he was a chlid.

 

[PL368Z]

Whole thing sounds like Chris Rock's N-word vs n-word with r with extra steps, at least from what I've seen on twitter.

 

[LuuqMaan]

We grew up with a light-skinned girl named Porky, and I went to junior high with this light-skinned dude named Porky, who lived in a different hood, who even had freckles. I didn't think this until well into my adult years, and all though I could be wrong, I think they both earned their nicknames because they were light-skinned. The girl we grew up with looked just like Tisha Campbell, with the same skin-tone, and almost the same build. But her siblings were either jet Black, or a little darker than brown-skinned. I don't know about the dude I went to junior high with, but I really think this girl I grew up with got her name because she was so much lighter than her siblings.

It seemed like coming up, her name changed from Porky, to Pooggy, but never did we call her Pookie. Then again, maybe it was Pookie when she was a baby, and they let us pronounce it wrong all those years. But the older she got, the more she probably didn't like Porky, or probably any of her nicknames. You'll learn that most brothers and sisters with hood names, don't really like them when they're adults, but you'll seldom hear them admit that. All her siblings had a hood nickname, but the friends on the block who got close to them in adulthood, would wound up calling them by their names on their birth certificate. That indicated they didn't always like being called those hood names when they got older. You'd be surprised what their real names are, especially this family, because they had some real, real hood names. I already named the girl, but if I name one of her siblings, then I'd probably be giving too much info. You never know who's reading this. The only other people that would call them by their real names would be their parents, or their significant other. Then again, they would called them by their nicknames off and on in seemed.

Most of us probably have cousins with hood names, especially the men. As we got further into adulthood, it seemed like sometimes they didn't mind being called these names, and sometimes they did. I began to realize most of my male cousins didn't like being called by these names in front of their wives or girlfriends, or in front of your new girlfriend. I never had a nickname, but when I think about it, I wouldn't want my cousins referring to me as my nickname in front of my girlfriend, or their new wive's or new girlfriends either, especially if I had a hood nickname like Pookie.

As far as Pookie, I only knew one. He passed away four weeks ago. He was the best friend of two of my older brothers. I didn't even know his nickname was Pookie, until I read his obituary. I did know his other nickname, which was Shorty, but I never called him that. I later learned he hated that nickname too, and only my older brothers were allowed to call him that. Based on what I knew about him, I already know he hated Pookie. Come to think of it, he was light-skinned too, and lighter than most of his family members as well, including his older brother.

I don't know about now, but it seems like back in the day, there may have been more of a correlation between Pookie, and light-skinned children, even Porky as far as I know. Btw, all these people I mentioned were born in the late 50's or early 60's.

Edit: His nickname was Bookie, not Pookie. I all ready know he hated that name too. I guess his light-skin didn't play a factor in his nickname after all. Come to think of it, nobody ever referred to him by his first name either. For some reason, he was always addressed by his last name, even by my brothers for the most part. And he took pride in being called by his last name.

Summarised by @ChatGPT

• The author discusses individuals they knew with hood nicknames, including two light-skinned people named Porky.
• Most individuals with hood nicknames don't like them when they grow older.
• The author's male cousins are uncomfortable being called by these names in front of their significant others.
• The author knew someone named Bookie who disliked his nickname and preferred to be addressed by his last name.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Do any of you actually know a niqqa named Pookie?

Cause I do and dude is a total mess.

 

[TEH]

The "Pookie" ridicule is rooted in xenophobia and racism against Black Americans.

The notion of "ghetto" names is nonsensical and doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

Pookies are real if you never knew a Pookie say so and stop rambling

 

[Laidbackman]

Summarised by @ChatGPT

• The author discusses individuals they knew with hood nicknames, including two light-skinned people named Porky.
• Most individuals with hood nicknames don't like them when they grow older.
• The author's male cousins are uncomfortable being called by these names in front of their significant others.
• The author knew someone named Bookie who disliked his nickname and preferred to be addressed by his last name.

Close but no cigar. Porky may have really been Pookie.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Do any of you actually know a niqqa named Pookie?

Cause I do and dude is a total mess.

Man shut the fukk up.

You are a xenophobe POS

 

[TEH]

But other ppl don't make that distinction.

True

We’re all Pookie to them

I’m going to start calling them Cletus

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Man shut the fukk up.

You are a xenophobe POS

Pookie is not a Xeno. Which means Alien.

Pookie is a goon that rolls with a hustler dude I grew up with.

If me, hustle man, and Pookie was together and a fight popped off, me amd Pook Dog would be back to back holding each other down.

When Pookie got shot a couple years ago, it was one block from my house.

Did you mean to use a different word or sumn?

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

I spoke truth about dusty dudes

U couldn't refute it, so u went to the white stereotype narrative.

Reality is junebug and pookie also got white bm and Hispanic even tho most of they bm are black.

He a destructive deadbeat bum. There no reason for me to give him any respect

And I don't struggle to get women at all, another narrative u dusty simps use when u have nowhere to go in a online debate.

There's dusty dudes that work at Walmart and take care of their kids. But I guess they got a normal dusty name like Bobby and Ronnie.

The point is not that you're describing a broke hood dude who doesn't take care of his kids, giving him a stereotypical black name, growing his numbers to be some majority in ANY city, then telling us all the women want him, when we walk outside and see different on a daily basis..

The fact that y'all have given them codenames other than "dusty hood dudes" yet given them so much power that they have a hold on all women, sounds like some shyt white people would say. I don't hear any black people having these types of conversations. shyt I just went to my boy's birthday party. Plenty of black men, with black women, watching the fight, not a thug in sight. I'm sure your normal life consists of the same shyt when you look around, but you worried about a cartoon character. Might as well call them O-Dogg and Caine.

Y'all need to stop it.. Or inform us where it is y'all live that all the black women, and other women, are fighting to be with bummy nikkas.. Y'all still in the projects or hanging out there?

 

[invalid]

He was a drug addict who got clean and tried to turn his life around

Is this a thing where art imitates life or life imitating art?

 

[MasterThought]

I guess the same reason "Carlton Banks" or "Poindexter" has been used to slur the opposite type of black men.

Ive never seen anyone crying over that.