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Boy Scouts Hatchet Kid and Ray Ray Origins
from Born on the 4th of Meat Pie · #124
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2 minTim tells a story about a Boy Scout friend who carried hatchets and threatened kids, plus how he got nicknamed "Ray Ray" and only later learned it was a gang reference from South Central.
- 8:17Tim was in Boy Scouts and the older kids called him Ray Ray without him understanding the racial slur reference at first.
- 8:32He didn't realize what Ray Ray meant until he watched South Central and saw a character use the term in a violent context.
- 8:42Tim's best friend in Boy Scouts carried hatchets around and would threaten other kids with them during camp.
- 9:04The hatchet kid held a blade to another camper's neck while threatening to kill him, which Tim initially thought was just rough playing.
- 9:18Tim learned later that the hatchet kid had harbored jealousy toward his victim because that kid had a family and he didn't.