Boojies (was CP Time)

[Wilson Gray]

On Nov 5, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Grant Barrett wrote:

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> Boojies/boogies/bougies (the latter the more common spelling in my
> experience) is still used enough that just last week I saw it
> graffitied across an advertisement on the Brooklyn-bound side of the
> First or Third Avenue stop of the L train in Manhattan.
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> Grant Barrett

But "boogie" is pronounced the same as the "boogie" in "boogie-woogie"
and is not class-specific. For example, a white character in the
groundbreaking 1950 movie, "No Way Out," says something like, "I saw a
boogie driving a Cadillac a block long!" as the whites of Beaver Canal
are firing themselves up to riot against the blacks of Niggertown.

-Wilson Gray

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>> In a message dated  Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:05:49 -0500,  Wilson Gray
>> <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> writes:
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>>>> Boojies?  (Sorry, Wilson!)
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>>>  A nickname/slang term for "members of the black bourgeoisie," <snip>
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