Duppytown? Which part of Dulwich is this?

[macroban]

Not a term for Dulwich I've heard before.

Can anyone shed light?

[HonaloochieB]

Presumably something to do with ghosts.

[EDmummy]

This could be scary if I could understand it:

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=5021981490&ShowSims=Y

[EDmummy]

OK, link didn't work. Put "Duppytown" into Google and go to the Bebo result.

[Ant]

I like how it says "did you mean to search for happytown?"

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Who has had the ghoul to ask this?

[macroban]

A secondary meaning which is probably being used in this context.

[blinder999]

Perhaps the Uptown Dulwich Criminals live there.

[AllforNun]

Champion Hill and Dog Kennel Hill (ish) (Duppy Town), Kinswood estate SE21 (ghost Town), (hence previous problems with Kingsdale school), Gipsy hill + Norwood, loose affiliation of groups, Musical affiliations, white bandana's and all that goes with it.

[mockney piers]

What a weird shuffling group dance. Sort of reminiscent of bill & ben the flower pot men. Or people dancing to the Smiths when I were a lad.

[JohnL]

Always liked the Specials - but thought they sang about Coventry not ED.

[MadWorld74]

Presumibly these kids go to church like good Christians at the weekend. And then back out for some fuk you up style killings in the noontime?

[MadWorld74]

So we all live in a Ghost Town then? or are we all being slated for trying to act black?.....can't say that I've done that latter recently...

[SteveT]

I have heard the word 'spook' used to describe blacks.

[MadWorld74]

oh God I'm done with all this shit I really am.

[Jeremy]

SteveT Wrote:

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> I have heard the word 'spook' used to describe

> blacks.

Interesting, in Hong Kong they refer to white people as "ghosts".

[sweetgirl]

Posted by: SteveT July 09, 02:59PM

I have heard the word 'spook' used to describe blacks.

STEVET IM NOT SURE THAT WOULD BE THE CORRECT TERM (BLACKS) TO USE IN THIS DAY & AGE!

IT SAYS ALOT ABOUT YOU!

[sweetgirl]

by the way, the term DUPPY means ghost.

its a term used in the caribbean.........

[JohnL]

sweetgirl Wrote:

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> Posted by: SteveT July 09, 02:59PM

>

>

> I have heard the word 'spook' used to describe

> blacks.

>

>

> STEVET IM NOT SURE THAT WOULD BE THE CORRECT TERM

> (BLACKS) TO USE IN THIS DAY & AGE!

>

> IT SAYS ALOT ABOUT YOU!

African American is the term in America - but we're not america - but I thought Black was seen as more acceptable today than my parents term of 'coloured' which is very uncorrect now.

discussed here

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060712105003AAno3vp

[Asset]

I think it's the use of 'blacks' rather than 'black people' that is not entirely on.

[sweetgirl]

thank you asset.

[Brendan]

According to a mate of mine from Jamaica Duppy is also used as a pejorative term for white people.

[TJ]

Is it me, or is the use of a word like Duppy not simply racist?

To my great embarrassment, my Grandfather one referred to the people of Sudan (for whom he nearly died and had a huge amount of respect) as Fuzzy-Wuzzies. This jokey 'innocent at the time' sort of phrase used by one racial type against any other race - either by the majority or minority serves only to draw further differences and misunderstandings of respect and understanding between groups.

Racism cuts both ways - you can't cry foul and then change the rules.

[BJL]

Something like the Haitian zombie.

[Jah Lush]

A duppy is an evil spirit.