Look, we know that everything is racist now. White people, the Gadsden flag, milk.
But the latest target of the anti-racist crowd? "Good morning."
The reason why I don't use the term ‘good morning': Did you know back in slavery days, after the masters had beaten us, taken our children, raped us, hung us, burned us and then left us in a dark shed overnight, they would literally open up the door, and they would greet us by saying ‘did you have a good mourning?'
Meaning, did you cry all night over the things that we've done to your loved ones? So this is the reason why I took ‘good morning' out of my vocabulary. Because truly, if you think about, there is absolutely nothing good about mourning.
Bad news for Good Morning America!
You'll be shocked to hear, however, that the phrase "good morning" has nothing to do with slavery or the horrific treatment of slaves. The earliest known use of the phrase is the Middle English period between 1150 and 1500 A.D., with the Oxford English Dictionary's earliest evidence for the term found around 1450 A.D.
This is so ridiculously false that even Snopes fact-checked a similar claim a few months ago:
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.
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Mourning comes from Old English ‘murnan,' according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. It means ‘to grieve,' but also "to worry," or "to care."
‘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.
Looks like we can't even trust the etymological accuracy of random people on social media anymore …
What has the world come to?!
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