Speaker 1: Motherfucking many years sold, motherfucking many years. Yep, yep, yep,
Speaker 1: there it is there, And yes, ladies and gentlemen, welcome
Speaker 1: to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told Me, the
Speaker 1: podcast where we died deep, deep into the pockets of
Speaker 1: black conspiracy theories and we honorly worked to approve the
Speaker 1: theories that you the listeners have at home. Bitch that
Speaker 1: I mentioned it's a mini episode, I probably didn't, but
Speaker 1: you know the game, baby, it's motherfucking Thursday, which means
Speaker 1: it's a motherfucking many episode. And it is just as
Speaker 1: many and just as I guess, uh, motherfucking as all
Speaker 1: of the other motherfucking many episodes. And I'm excited it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a good one because today's episode comes to
Speaker 1: us from a person representing the Caucus region of this country.
Speaker 1: That's right, a Caucasian person sent me a message that
Speaker 1: I thought was worth diving into. And I'm excited to
Speaker 1: read you this message today. It comes from a gentle person,
Speaker 1: A gentle person, let's say, a gentle person that seems
Speaker 1: very piece in today's uh today's times, you know, to say,
Speaker 1: a gentle person. We're not gonna gender this individual, but
Speaker 1: Greg which as a gender tone to it. But that's
Speaker 1: my antiquated brain kicking in. You know, that's me needing
Speaker 1: to grow past my own bullshit. That said, Greg sent
Speaker 1: me something he started with just Lengston Comma, which feels
Speaker 1: like I'm about to get a stern talking to. But
Speaker 1: Greg said Langston. I love the My Mama Told Me podcast,
Speaker 1: and I have been thinking about this one ever since
Speaker 1: I started listening. I am white and grew up in
Speaker 1: a predominantly white area, so I'm having flash facts of
Speaker 1: how racist things were around me as a kid. One
Speaker 1: thing that cycled around in my school was that the
Speaker 1: car company named Pontiac was actually an acronym for poor
Speaker 1: old in word. Thinks it's a cadillact. Now, I want
Speaker 1: to be clear that Greg did put in word. He
Speaker 1: didn't write nigga. I don't know the rules around writing
Speaker 1: nigga for white people. I think if you're sending it
Speaker 1: as an email to a black man, you probably should
Speaker 1: just say in word, and Greg did exactly that. So
Speaker 1: good for you. Greg. Anyway, he says, obviously this is
Speaker 1: pretty horrible, But I didn't know if it was a
Speaker 1: common thing or just for my just from my areas,
Speaker 1: figured it would be a good mini episode topic. Thanks Greg. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Greg, first of all, thank you for sending me this.
Speaker 1: I had never heard of this before in my life.
Speaker 1: I think, whatever racist ship hole you come from, Greg's,
Speaker 1: this is special to y'all because this wasn't something kicking
Speaker 1: around in my Chicago suburb. That said, I was very
Speaker 1: excited to read it, not not because I was excited
Speaker 1: that people behave this way, but more because it did
Speaker 1: seem like a fun thing to dig into. And I
Speaker 1: did exactly that, Greg, I dug in. I did my research.
Speaker 1: I spent I would argue minutes figuring out real answers
Speaker 1: to your hypothetical of whether or not Pontiac the the
Speaker 1: legitimate car company Pontiac defunct in two thousand and ten.
Speaker 1: I might add, but the the once legitimate card company
Speaker 1: Pontiac was in fact hiding an acronym. Poor old Nigga
Speaker 1: thinks it's a Cadillac. Now, as it turns out to Greg,
Speaker 1: to answer your question, Pontiac is not an acronym at all.
Speaker 1: That suggestion was not at all real. This wasn't a
Speaker 1: secret acronym. The Pontiac line of vehicles was actually named
Speaker 1: after a legendary Ottawa chief who bravely fought against the
Speaker 1: British nearly two and fifty years ago. He basically teamed
Speaker 1: up with American soldiers and he was most known I
Speaker 1: guess for like sort of like uniting the Native nations
Speaker 1: at the time. That like, he was a dope speaker
Speaker 1: and a great leader, and he got a bunch of
Speaker 1: communities that otherwise wouldn't have participated in the fighting to
Speaker 1: join forces. Now, in the Wikipedia, and this is important,
Speaker 1: it also says that the namesake for the city of Pontiac,
Speaker 1: Michigan comes from this guy, so Chief Pontiac. He was
Speaker 1: part of the naming of both the Pontiac vehicles and Pontiac, Michigan.
Speaker 1: Now I said named and this is important. It says
Speaker 1: in the Wikipedia that he gave his name to the
Speaker 1: city of Pontiac, which I find to be pretty unlikely,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean. It's just hard to
Speaker 1: imagine he was. He was lying on his deathbed like
Speaker 1: I want to give my name. I want to give
Speaker 1: my name to a city filled with with white people,
Speaker 1: filthy white people who will eventually claim that that my
Speaker 1: name is an acronym to antagonize poor black people none
Speaker 1: of us have ever met. And then he died. You know,
Speaker 1: that's that's hard to believe, that old Pontiac that was
Speaker 1: its plan. But the ironic part is that Chief Pontiac
Speaker 1: decided to fight against the British because he is said
Speaker 1: to have realized that under British rule his people would
Speaker 1: no longer be welcomed in the forts, and that they
Speaker 1: would ultimately be deprived of their hunting grounds by aggressive
Speaker 1: settlers encroaching upon their ancestral lands. Now, not like the Americans, who,
Speaker 1: as we all know, ended up being super cool to
Speaker 1: the Native Americans. And I have no notes for you
Speaker 1: white people. You nailed it perfect, perfect perfect is there
Speaker 1: truly put his faith in the Americans, thinking that the
Speaker 1: British were gonna do wrong by them, which they probably
Speaker 1: would have. I don't want to confuse this. The British
Speaker 1: were probably gonna be pieces of shipped to the Native Americans,
Speaker 1: But unfortunately, so were the the fake Americans, who had
Speaker 1: already sort of made plans to steal all of this
Speaker 1: land from the Ottawa people and all of the other
Speaker 1: Native tribes that surrounded the Great Lakes and everywhere else
Speaker 1: that they already lived in this country. Now, it's likely
Speaker 1: that the cause for this supposed acronym that you're talking about, Greg,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you know this already, is that Pontiacs
Speaker 1: were sort of known for being a pseudo luxury brand.
Speaker 1: They really wanted to be a lot fancier and more
Speaker 1: classy than they ended up being received. They started out
Speaker 1: as this company attempting to make like luxury sedans. These
Speaker 1: were these were cool, sexy cars for the working man,
Speaker 1: and then out of nowhere because and it's not out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, because they more or less weren't as welcomed
Speaker 1: as one would hope. They weren't sort of like matching
Speaker 1: the success of your Cadillacsia, Lincoln's, your Buicks at the time.
Speaker 1: They started attempting then to make muscle cars, and that's
Speaker 1: where they found their success. They made some some cool
Speaker 1: muscle cars, but then you know, muscle cars sort of
Speaker 1: like uh, they that's not how you keep the business alive,
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of have to to be able
Speaker 1: to sell more cars and more functional vehicles. And by
Speaker 1: the time they ended they dead it out in two
Speaker 1: thousand and ten, they had to declare bankruptcy in two
Speaker 1: thousand nine. Basically, after the the financial crisis of two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, the company GM had to make some
Speaker 1: decisions and they were like, hey, you guys make bullshit, Pontiac,
Speaker 1: We're we're gonna kill you off. And so Pontiac, running
Speaker 1: out of money, had to kill themselves off. And it's
Speaker 1: a fair decision because by the time that they dead
Speaker 1: it out, they were making weird SUVs, like something called
Speaker 1: the Pontiac Montana, which I had never heard of, but
Speaker 1: if you look it up, you'll see exactly why they
Speaker 1: didn't keep making that move. And then even worse, they
Speaker 1: made something which is objectively known as one of the
Speaker 1: worst vehicles of all time, which is the Pontiac ASTech. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many of you remember the Pontiac Astec,
Speaker 1: but I'll describe it for you now because I had
Speaker 1: to read. I had to look it up again just
Speaker 1: to remember why it disgusted me. But the Pontiac aztect
Speaker 1: basically looks like if a turtle and a Tetris piece
Speaker 1: fucked and then had a real weird baby, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Just turtle beating them guts up in
Speaker 1: a Tetris piece and then that Tetris piece gives a birth.
Speaker 1: I don't know why the Tetris piece would be the
Speaker 1: one giving birth and not the turtle. It seems like
Speaker 1: the Tetris piece would be easier to insert in the
Speaker 1: turtle wherever turtle pussy is kept. But as it turns out,
Speaker 1: in my imagination, the turtles the one fucking and the
Speaker 1: tetrispiece is the one making the baby. I'm real progressive
Speaker 1: in that way. I can see beyond your norms. You're
Speaker 1: conforming norms, and I see something more beautiful, which is
Speaker 1: a Tetris piece with its breaks up on stirrups, as
Speaker 1: as something real fucked up like a pontiac aztec crawls
Speaker 1: out of its its whole. Now anyway, I'll keep going.
Speaker 1: I didn't have to get that graphic. Apparently, these acronyms
Speaker 1: are largely regional and do seem to correlate with the
Speaker 1: things that people personally hate. So like your community, Greg,
Speaker 1: you hate black people and not you personally, obviously you
Speaker 1: don't you you like at least one black person, and
Speaker 1: that's all we ask, you know, That's all I ask
Speaker 1: of of any white person, like at least one you know, Well,
Speaker 1: I go to two or three. Just find one you
Speaker 1: dig and write them letters. Anyway, the acronyms are not
Speaker 1: limited to just hating black people. Actually found a website
Speaker 1: that had a list of potential acronyms that for some
Speaker 1: reason are rated on the side. People have the chance
Speaker 1: to rate some of these acronyms, and some of them
Speaker 1: are pretty uh fucked up, just equally fucked up to
Speaker 1: that uh, the one from before. So there's things like
Speaker 1: puts out to Pontiac's nance for puts out noxious toxins
Speaker 1: in all cities, which I don't know what that means. Pontiac.
Speaker 1: People on narcotics think it's a Chevy. That one's funny
Speaker 1: to me. I enjoyed that one. Pontiac. Poor old Nut
Speaker 1: thinks it's a Cadillac. Now we know, Nut in this situation,
Speaker 1: depending on who you're talking to, could be something else.
Speaker 1: There's poor old Norwegian thinks it's a Cadillac. Poor old
Speaker 1: Nutter thinks it's a Cadillac. Poor old end thinks it's
Speaker 1: a Cadillac. Now we know what that end stands for,
Speaker 1: don't we? People People of classy, normal thinking intelligence, acting
Speaker 1: classy Uh that you know, Yeah, it's it's a little.
Speaker 1: It feels wordy. It feels like you're working too hard
Speaker 1: on that one. Pontiac pull over, Now the injectors are cooked.
Speaker 1: Here's here's the one that I enjoyed. Pontiac Packer Woods
Speaker 1: of Nascar thinks it's a Chevy. Now I love hearing
Speaker 1: a white person get called a Peckerwood. That's fun for me.
Speaker 1: So that was my favorite. If I have the option
Speaker 1: to rate it, I'm giving it a five stars. Baby,
Speaker 1: that's a great one. Poor old New Yorker thinks it's
Speaker 1: a Cadillac. Pontiac only never think install a chevy people
Speaker 1: of native tribes inside a casino. That one super racist
Speaker 1: because it's actually a native name, paid overnight to inject
Speaker 1: air coolant. Poor old Neo Height thinks it's a Cadillac.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's a racist word that I'm less familiar
Speaker 1: worth with with worth who can talk nowadays, who has
Speaker 1: the time to talk? Well, you know that's what I
Speaker 1: always say. Pontiac parents of nabline now now by loan
Speaker 1: take it and crash. God damn, that's probably some racist
Speaker 1: shit about black people. Pontiac, but old tractor traded as
Speaker 1: a Corolla, and then poor oldies, not trash. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Come on, people worked really hard to hide those acronyms,
Speaker 1: which in all likelihood were just long form ways of
Speaker 1: being mad at black people. Now getting back to some
Speaker 1: of these acronyms, it did make me excited that Cadillac
Speaker 1: and these other companies were treated with such uh, they
Speaker 1: were revered in such positive ways. And so I got
Speaker 1: to thinking, wouldn't it be fun if there were other
Speaker 1: acronyms that that were sort of floating around in Greg's neighborhood,
Speaker 1: you know, like whit What if there were other acronyms
Speaker 1: for some of these other cars that are just mad
Speaker 1: at black people, like Cadillac. What if Cadillac meant uh
Speaker 1: con ass darky is licking lips at chicken. You know
Speaker 1: Cone has dark he is licking lips at chicken. That
Speaker 1: that's a fun one. Or Lincoln means listening niggas because
Speaker 1: oh Fay loves nooses. That's I had so much fun
Speaker 1: writing these. Billick means uh, bitch you is couchie game?
Speaker 1: That one. That one's not racist, but it means the
Speaker 1: most of me. That was my favorite and I will
Speaker 1: be submitting it to the fine folks at Bilwick if
Speaker 1: they're still in business. I truly have no idea of
Speaker 1: Bilick still in business. They also make pretty shitty cars. Anyway,
Speaker 1: If you or or your friends would like to send
Speaker 1: me racist acronyms from your childhood, then then please send
Speaker 1: them to my mama pot at gmail dot com. I
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