Calling certain men "boys", like calling women "girls" has a long history within white supremacy & misogyny. For "boy", it's why African American men started referring to each other as "man": as a countermeasure to people steeped in white supremacy calling them "boys".https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1011255085773434880 …
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Either way, the main and important difference is the phrase is self applied versus forced upon you by another group/person.
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