02-12-2011, 02:37 PM
(02-12-2011, 01:43 PM)Countryside_Belle Wrote: I too remember a report, either on the 911 call, Jane V's show, or maybe with a news station, where Maytee or TW says something about Johnny saying "Hey BRO, what the hell are you doing here BRO?!":....It caught my attention that very minute, and I didn't save it or copy it at the time.....Wish I would've copied where I saw/heard that, because at the time I brushed it off, thinking that Johnny may have said "Bro" to some guy walking up or being there that was an intruder, but it makes much more sense that he KNEW the guy, and that's why he said "Bro"...I saw this SOON after the murder- like in the first few days I took interest in the case. I have no idea where I saw/heard it now though.
I respectfully disagree with the notion that addressing someone as "Bro" means they are already known. Among those who think that this is classy, a perfect stranger might be addressed as "bro."
My impression is that addressing someone as "bro" simply means "I think you are one of us."
It started out as a greeting between black men meeting for the first time, as a greeting. And since then has been appropriated unfortunately by those, black and white, who want to think of themselves as "gangsta" types.