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kneeblock

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Apr 18, 2015
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I was told the word honky originates from white guys driving through Harlem picking up hookers but being scared of getting out of their cars, so they’d honk. kneeblock @Kneeblock you seem like the fella to know about this, any truth to it?
Nah whites used it to refer to each other before it was commonly used by Black people as a pejorative.
 

kneeblock

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Apr 18, 2015
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How so? I am genuinely curious.
Not sure. Don't know the etymology among whites, but the terms honky like honky tonk or "hunky" go back before when the term came into popular use among black people in the late 60s.