2007-02-18 00:03:15 · 21 answers · asked by Neo Tarantula 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
in my opinion, that saying was not intended to be racist, but people made it so. just like being called "black" was suddenly a big problem, because some people realized the word "black" was associated with negative connotations, like "black-listed" and "black-balled." i'm sure the saying was just some anthropomorphic morality lesson, and then people decided to bring race into it, for some reason. i mean, come on! "that's like the pot, which has been sitting on the stove for so long, calling the kettle, which has been sitting on the stove for equal time, African-American?" see? it wasn't intended that way.
2007-02-18 00:17:20 · answer #1 · answered by Tess O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
meaning: somebody who faults yet another for faults conspicuously his own. occasion: you think of police ought to provide up all those different undesirable drivers? it relatively is quite like the pot calling the kettle black! foundation: This expression dates lower back to the seventeenth Century. In historic situations, pots besides as kettles may be blackened over the open cooking fires of the day. option: "The pot calling the kettle black: mentioned of somebody accusing yet another of faults resembling those dedicated via the accuser. The allusion is to the old enjoyed ones wherein the copper kettle would be saved polished, mutually as the iron pot would stay black. The kettle's vivid area would replicate the pot. The pot, seeing its mirrored image, would for this reason see black, which might seem to be on the area of the kettle. The pot would desire to then accuse the kettle of a fault it did no longer have." source: Brewer's Dictionary of word and fantasy, 1870, revised via Adrian Room (Millennium version) through Jan Heirtzler.
2016-10-15 22:30:16 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. That is a fair statement. Had you said "the pot calling the kettle African-American" then I would agree.
2007-02-18 01:55:29 · answer #3 · answered by Jay (cynical) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmn, disagree. I don't think it is racist. It's supposed to be just an expression and was formed when people used stoves that blacken pots and kettles and pans. Thinking 'bout it, it would seem to be more anti-racist because as it implies, we are all the same - human.
2007-02-18 00:13:14 · answer #4 · answered by woman in the well 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nope. it's just an expression with words that can't be helped having "black" in it.
i mean what other term can you use to call a kettle that will give a negative connotation and is appropriate for the pot as well?
2007-02-18 00:10:20 · answer #5 · answered by lian 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, I do not. The two appliances happen to be the same color, which happens to be black. It's no different than saying something like, the refrigerator calling the stove white. Just doesn't have as much impact.
2007-02-18 02:18:33 · answer #6 · answered by kitten lover3 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just because something refered to as black does not make it a racial slur. if that was true then the following would be considered racist: Black Board, Black Beauty.
In this case the word black means 'burnt'
check hthe link below for the meaning of hthe phrase
2007-02-18 00:23:56 · answer #7 · answered by We Are Squirrel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is not nor was the intent ever for it to be a racist or demeaning remark. When the saying was coined all cookware was cast iron and black.
2007-02-18 00:17:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I do not agree. This saying is much older than any race connotation ever was brought up. There is no race issue here unless the person desires it to be so.
2007-02-18 00:09:02 · answer #9 · answered by Ted 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Absolutly NOT racist. I'm around black people all the time (My husband for 1) and he & says it very often as well as other relatives I've heard say it.
2007-02-18 00:23:36 · answer #10 · answered by weezie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋