I went outside and took a few pictures of the kids today. We had no school because the power was out, which means no flushing toilets. Not a good thing at a school. It was not raining so I told them to go outside and play. They all had play clothes and look like what I lovingly call raggamuffins. So I thought I would be all cute and look up what it meant, and put the definition on here. It was not in the Websters version, but it was on urban dictionary. I was taken aback by what it said.
Ragga is the short form of raggamuffin, a term which held its present musical connotations since the late 1980s or beginning of 1990s. The term raggamuffin is derived from the Middle English personal name "Ragamuffyn", which was usually employed in an insulting manner towards street children. The word later came to mean a person who is shabbily clothed and dirty, often applied to orphans. It was used in this way to describe Kingston ghetto youth, and the youth themselves took on the term to describe their new music.
I don't think I will use that term anymore. I am not one to be politically correct, but I don't ever want to say something to my children that can be taken to be mean or cruel, ever. I want to say words that will edify and lift them up. Words that correct them when they need it, words that will teach them about Jesus, words that will let them know I love them, but not words that can hurt.
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