A social media video that’s been getting attention makes the absurd claim that saying “good morning” is racist, the latest addition to the growing list of normal things that might offend overly sensitive black people.
In the short clip that was originally posted to TikTok last October but has since been shared on other platforms, a young tattooed black woman sporting a nose ring says that the common term was used to mock “mourning” black slaves back in the plantation days.
Saying “good morning” is now racist. Seems reasonable. pic.twitter.com/IhNDD30YEC
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 15, 2024
“Alright so during slavery times when the women used to mourn about their child being tooken away and sold to a different slave master or if one of the family members did somethin’ that resulted in to them getting whipped or killed, most of these things used to happen in the evening time,” the woman explained.
Adding that “the black women used to cry all night” and that it wasn’t just the women but “the black people in general, all the black slaves” cried at night. “And when the slaves used to cry about what happened all night long, the white slave masters, the oppressors will wake up in the morning time and they’ll tell the slaves ‘did you have a good mourning?’” she said.
“Basically did you have a good cry out? Did you do enough cryin’ last night?” she continued. “So the white oppressors came up with ‘good mourning’ as a mockery towards black people.”
Of course, it’s completely ridiculous and drew predictable mockery from X users.
Think she’s tookin the wrong origin of the greeting.
— Bill (@Bill_321) April 15, 2024
Can you imagine even coming UP with THAT?! How?…
— (@Emilio2763) April 14, 2024
Unfortunately, her English book was “tookin” along with the good in her morning.
— Musing in Moraga (@MusingInMoraga) April 14, 2024
They are just making random shit up now
— LogicalConclusions (@Eric_Eze_L) April 14, 2024
Is this Michael Obama’s brother?
— PatriotPoliticsResearch☦ (@PPR_Mile) April 14, 2024
You can’t make this level of dysfunctional resentment up for imagined exptessions
— Timothy Fox (Echoes of the Bruce) (@cordell_timothy) April 14, 2024
She lost me when she said “ tooken away “
— Mr Ugly (@MichaelEtie) April 14, 2024
The woman’s claim was so blatantly false that even the trusty left-wing fact-checker Snopes shot it down in flames.
A viral TikTok video claimed that the expression “good morning” began as a mockery of Black slaves. Here’s what we found: https://t.co/26FermuG7H pic.twitter.com/LbgUV258VW
— snopes.com (@snopes) April 17, 2024
Rating the video “FALSE,” the website corrected the record: “As other internet users correctly pointed out, the word “morning” does not find its origin in colonial times or in slavery. The words ‘morning’ and ‘mourning’ are in fact homophones: words of different spelling, meaning and origin that sound the same.”
“Both words have a Germanic origin and followed a clear evolution through Old English (English as it was used from the fifth century to the end of the 11th century, nearly 500 years before the beginning of colonial times in North America) and through Middle English (English used between the 12th and the 15th century, just before colonial times),” Snopes noted.
“Mourning comes from Old English ‘murnan,’ according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. It means “to grieve,’ but also ‘to worry,’ or ‘to care,’” the fact checker pointed out. “‘Morning’ comes from the Middle English ‘morn,’ which itself came from Old English ‘morgen.’ This word, which meant ‘dawn,’ also designated the time between dawn and noon, also according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary,” Snopes explained.
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Author: Chris Donaldson
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