i'm surprised that not much has been made about michaels' comment "50 years ago we would have hung you upside down with a fork up your ass". so far it's just been his use of the n-word. i thought his "hanging" comment was just as bad, or worse. what, just because he got heckled, he had to point out the fact that not long ago black people were being hanged?? what a racist dick. to me, that comment is the equivalent of saying to a jewish person "50 years ago we would have stuck you in an oven with a fork up your ass". i can't believe no one is talking about that as much as his use of the n-word.
I agree, that comment is terrible and inexcusably racist. Like he's proud of it or something. Smacks of superiority to me too.
"We have to change the concept of patriotism to one of “matriotism” — love of humanity that transcends war. A matriarch would never send her own children off to wars that kill other people’s children." Cindy Sheehan --- London, Brixton, 14 July 1993 London, Wembley, 1996 London, Wembley, 18 June 2007 London, O2, 18 August 2009 London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 31 July 2012 Milton Keynes Bowl, 11 July 2014
London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 06 June 2017
Why is it that some people here insist on making out that there is racism against white people like its an equal thing? *sigh* Middle-class white americans are practically the most priviledged people <i>on earth</i>. Why whine about some reverse racism which frankly doesn't even mean anything?!
I'll just overlook the fact that you're talking shit for a minute, and just point out that I was actually referring to homophobia and racism against other minority groups, relative to racism against blacks. My comments could apply to racism against whites too, though.
I'll just overlook the fact that you're talking shit for a minute, and just point out that I was actually referring to homophobia and racism against other minority groups, relative to racism against blacks. My comments could apply to racism against whites too, though.
Oh right, nice get-out clause. :P
"We have to change the concept of patriotism to one of “matriotism” — love of humanity that transcends war. A matriarch would never send her own children off to wars that kill other people’s children." Cindy Sheehan --- London, Brixton, 14 July 1993 London, Wembley, 1996 London, Wembley, 18 June 2007 London, O2, 18 August 2009 London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 31 July 2012 Milton Keynes Bowl, 11 July 2014
London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 06 June 2017
Middle-class white americans are practically the most priviledged people <i>on earth</i>. Why whine about some reverse racism which frankly doesn't even mean anything?!
what do you mean by "reverse racism"?
"PC Load Letter?! What the fuck does that mean?"
~Michael Bolton
These 'Racism! Racism!' things always spin out of control. Yeah, the guy's a dick... (I know a gal who used to waitress at a place near the studios and she told me a long time ago that Kramer and George were assholes... Jerry and Elaine were nice and Jerry was a great tipper)... he let his true colors fly... just like Mel did... and got busted.
Say you're sorry and mean it.
Continually sucking on Blackzilla only makes you a cock-sucker... just apologise for your actions... mean it... and accept what people give you.
Well said and exactly how I feel. Apologize and be on with it. Stop trying to be someone you're not. We know you're an asshole and obviously have SOME disrespect for blacks, to let it get out like that. But, an apology for offending some people and having it go public suffices. Some will choose to boycott you and some won't even care, but ENOUGH already.
LMAO at Blackzilla.
24 years old, mid-life crisis
nowadays hits you when you're young
black people tip poorly. i worked in a restaurant and i saw it on a regular basis. am i a racist now?
Haha. I wouldn't go that far, but the Baptist's (who are predominantly black) tip HORRIBLY. They had a convention every year next door to this place I worked.
24 years old, mid-life crisis
nowadays hits you when you're young
No, we consider seinfeld to be a typical american sense of humour... i.e. not funny at all
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
WOW. That was a dumb thing to do. Next time you're in LA let me know. You don't need to go to south central to have a good time.
Thanks it wasn't intentional and if we knew where we were going, we probably may not have gone. We'd been drinking in the same bar every night but it closed at 2am. There was a black guy we'd been chatting to most nights so when we asked the barman where we could go that was open later, he said to ask him. So we did, he said he was going to a club and we were more than welcome to join him... didn't say we may not be welcome there at all. AND as soon as we got into the club, he fucked off and left us, two girls on our own to deal with this. Thankfully, we DID meet some really cool people who were looking out for us until we got a taxi. One guy even offered to hotwire a car and drive us back to the hotel it was tempting if we'd been there for much longer . It was mainly the women who had a problem with us I think, none of the men said or did anything and were pretty helpful and were genuinely trying to find a way for us to get away.
We drank in a black pub in New York one night and it was the best craic we had over there. Instead of standing out being a bad thing, everyone wanted to talk to us . Probably helped that the cousin I was with that time used to be Miss Dublin
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
...it wasn't intentional and if we knew where we were going, we probably may not have gone...
Yup, and if Michael Richards knew where he was going, he wouldn't have either.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
Yup, and if Michael Richards knew where he was going, he wouldn't have either.
Oh come on, I'm no Michael Richards
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Thanks it wasn't intentional and if we knew where we were going, we probably may not have gone. We'd been drinking in the same bar every night but it closed at 2am. There was a black guy we'd been chatting to most nights so when we asked the barman where we could go that was open later, he said to ask him. So we did, he said he was going to a club and we were more than welcome to join him... didn't say we may not be welcome there at all. AND as soon as we got into the club, he fucked off and left us, two girls on our own to deal with this. Thankfully, we DID meet some really cool people who were looking out for us until we got a taxi. One guy even offered to hotwire a car and drive us back to the hotel it was tempting if we'd been there for much longer . It was mainly the women who had a problem with us I think, none of the men said or did anything and were pretty helpful and were genuinely trying to find a way for us to get away.
We drank in a black pub in New York one night and it was the best craic we had over there. Instead of standing out being a bad thing, everyone wanted to talk to us . Probably helped that the cousin I was with that time used to be Miss Dublin
You 'probably' may not have gone? :eek:
"...believe in lies...to get by...it's divine...whoa...oh, you know what its like..."
No, we consider seinfeld to be a typical american sense of humour... i.e. not funny at all
Ummm...hello . I actually didn't think it was funny at first either. It took a while to grow on me. Friends made me laugh my ass off right from the first episode until the last one. I loved that show.
"...believe in lies...to get by...it's divine...whoa...oh, you know what its like..."
I'm just saying that if we all know where we are going, we might not go.
The reason Michael Richards is apologizing is because he knows where he went, but didn't know he was going there before he went there.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
well ok if he had explained that we were going to a place where people were going to pick fights with us straight away and that there's no way we'd even manage to get a DRINK :eek: what would be the point. But I think if he had said he was bringing us to the hood and maybe if he had a few friends or something, I wouldn't be the kinda person to think 'oh fuck, I'm going to the hood, no way'... although I would now
Friends WAS great and I was only joking
Well ahnimus, it's a good story to have though, isn't it? Didn't feel like it at the time but it's not really that big of a deal I suppose. It's like when tourists say they want to go to Belfast (and they say it in a 'see I'm fearless' kinda way) and I think 'so what? We've all been there'
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Well ahnimus, it's a good story to have though, isn't it? Didn't feel like it at the time but it's not really that big of a deal I suppose. It's like when tourists say they want to go to Belfast (and they say it in a 'see I'm fearless' kinda way) and I think 'so what? We've all been there'
Hehe, I totally agree, see the thread "Free-Will" for more of what I mean
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
Nigger.
Take a real good gander at it. Two syllables. Six letters. And give it a goodbye. 'Cause right now nigger's on a linguistic hit list. If the verbal totalitarians have their way, they will take a blowtorch to the word, light it up and not stop burning until even the embers and ash aren't fit to be returned to the earth.
But what would we really be destroying? There is no other word in our culture that incites, infuriates, confounds and informs as does the word nigger. Who uses it, how it's used, which washed-up actor turned comic (think Michael Richards) shoulda stayed the hell clear of the word--they all help mark the ascension of black America through the cultural landscape. In art and letters and theater and comedy, this one word, this mangle of Latin and French and Spanish, has been description and slur and salutation, and in each incarnation a curio of our society.
No matter the classic book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in an antebellum age; the plight of runaway slave Nigger Jim is given equal consideration as that of his young white friend. Through Nigger Jim, the concept of racial parity, the examination of the system of slavery were forced upon Southern segregationists.
Should we also toss on the fire Dick Gregory's autobiography, written for cross-consumption as a harsh accounting of the racial indignities heaped upon a young black as he travels from boy to man? The book's ultimate satirical trick was to flip the slur into a sales tool. Its title: Nigger! "Whenever you hear the word 'nigger,'" Gregory wrote in the introduction, "you'll know they're advertising my book." Call a man a nigger, earn a brother a dollar.
Jump to Hollywood's blaxploitation era in the 1960s, when blacks suddenly were allowed to make movies told from our point of view. Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song--an ode to a wronged black man on the run from the cops--introduced the lead character as a "baadasssss nigger coming back to collect some dues!" And that "nigger" in the film, as Van Peebles tells it, snapped the streak of "liberal, sort of nice movies where we always ended up dead at the end."
In 1984's A Soldier's Story, a black military officer is investigating the murder of an unpopular black soldier near an Army base in Louisiana. Sergeant Waters, the victim, brutally compels a young black private to give up his country ways and "quit thinking like a nigger." It was a rarely seen public representation of our private interactions: the impatience some blacks have with a victim mentality. Shocking. Powerful. A message to a white populace that we are not lemmings. And that even among ourselves, we're not a single tribe.
Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock have all traded on demystifying nigger. And in doing so, they have advanced the racial debate further than a thousand roundtable discussions populated with the best Ivy League minds. Pryor and Chevy Chase's Saturday Night Live "word association" sketch was a prime example of comedy's power to explore racial interplay in the workplace, the constant questioning of blacks as to when a comment is harmless and when is it racist. Chase is the white human-resources executive. Pryor, the black job applicant. What begins with Chase: "White," Pryor: "Black," devolves through Chase: "Negro," Pryor: "Whitey," Chase: "Colored," Pryor: "Redneck," Chase: "Jungle bunny," Pryor: "Honky!" Chase: "Nigger," Pryor: "Dead honky!"
1976. Silver Streak, Pryor and Gene Wilder's comedic take on The Defiant Ones. In the penultimate moment, Pryor's character, camouflaged as a lowly train porter, flips a gat on the uppity white villain, demanding to know, in a brilliant combination of anger and comic timing, "Who you callin' nigger?" Yeah. That was all of us. That was all of black America wanting to know from any race baiter as we moved through the Establishment: Excuse me, who exactly are you calling nigger?
And a couple of mollycoddles out there want to put the kibosh on that? Line 'em up, man. Line up pop culture from The Nigger of the Narcissus to The Birth of a Nation to To Kill a Mockingbird, right on through N.W.A. and "Niggas vs. Black People," and on to comedian Dave Chappelle playing a blind Ku Klux Klan member who ends up yelling "nigger" at himself.
In an era of enlightenment and free communication, do we really want to wipe out the work of the satirists who shove and cajole, who take language and thought by the throat and force us to confront with wit and guile what most refuse to face? We need this word. Relax. Take a deep breath. It's gonna be cool. Two syllables. Six letters. It's not the word, only the fear that needs to be put aside.
John Ridley is a commentator and author of The American Way, a graphic-novel series to be published in February
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
I thought it was an interesting read and since I have now access to the Time archive, I thought I'd give it a go.
That Chase-Pryor skit is a classic
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
Nigger.
Take a real good gander at it. Two syllables. Six letters. And give it a goodbye. 'Cause right now nigger's on a linguistic hit list. If the verbal totalitarians have their way, they will take a blowtorch to the word, light it up and not stop burning until even the embers and ash aren't fit to be returned to the earth.
But what would we really be destroying? There is no other word in our culture that incites, infuriates, confounds and informs as does the word nigger. Who uses it, how it's used, which washed-up actor turned comic (think Michael Richards) shoulda stayed the hell clear of the word--they all help mark the ascension of black America through the cultural landscape. In art and letters and theater and comedy, this one word, this mangle of Latin and French and Spanish, has been description and slur and salutation, and in each incarnation a curio of our society.
No matter the classic book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in an antebellum age; the plight of runaway slave Nigger Jim is given equal consideration as that of his young white friend. Through Nigger Jim, the concept of racial parity, the examination of the system of slavery were forced upon Southern segregationists.
Should we also toss on the fire Dick Gregory's autobiography, written for cross-consumption as a harsh accounting of the racial indignities heaped upon a young black as he travels from boy to man? The book's ultimate satirical trick was to flip the slur into a sales tool. Its title: Nigger! "Whenever you hear the word 'nigger,'" Gregory wrote in the introduction, "you'll know they're advertising my book." Call a man a nigger, earn a brother a dollar.
Jump to Hollywood's blaxploitation era in the 1960s, when blacks suddenly were allowed to make movies told from our point of view. Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song--an ode to a wronged black man on the run from the cops--introduced the lead character as a "baadasssss nigger coming back to collect some dues!" And that "nigger" in the film, as Van Peebles tells it, snapped the streak of "liberal, sort of nice movies where we always ended up dead at the end."
In 1984's A Soldier's Story, a black military officer is investigating the murder of an unpopular black soldier near an Army base in Louisiana. Sergeant Waters, the victim, brutally compels a young black private to give up his country ways and "quit thinking like a nigger." It was a rarely seen public representation of our private interactions: the impatience some blacks have with a victim mentality. Shocking. Powerful. A message to a white populace that we are not lemmings. And that even among ourselves, we're not a single tribe.
Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock have all traded on demystifying nigger. And in doing so, they have advanced the racial debate further than a thousand roundtable discussions populated with the best Ivy League minds. Pryor and Chevy Chase's Saturday Night Live "word association" sketch was a prime example of comedy's power to explore racial interplay in the workplace, the constant questioning of blacks as to when a comment is harmless and when is it racist. Chase is the white human-resources executive. Pryor, the black job applicant. What begins with Chase: "White," Pryor: "Black," devolves through Chase: "Negro," Pryor: "Whitey," Chase: "Colored," Pryor: "Redneck," Chase: "Jungle bunny," Pryor: "Honky!" Chase: "Nigger," Pryor: "Dead honky!"
1976. Silver Streak, Pryor and Gene Wilder's comedic take on The Defiant Ones. In the penultimate moment, Pryor's character, camouflaged as a lowly train porter, flips a gat on the uppity white villain, demanding to know, in a brilliant combination of anger and comic timing, "Who you callin' nigger?" Yeah. That was all of us. That was all of black America wanting to know from any race baiter as we moved through the Establishment: Excuse me, who exactly are you calling nigger?
And a couple of mollycoddles out there want to put the kibosh on that? Line 'em up, man. Line up pop culture from The Nigger of the Narcissus to The Birth of a Nation to To Kill a Mockingbird, right on through N.W.A. and "Niggas vs. Black People," and on to comedian Dave Chappelle playing a blind Ku Klux Klan member who ends up yelling "nigger" at himself.
In an era of enlightenment and free communication, do we really want to wipe out the work of the satirists who shove and cajole, who take language and thought by the throat and force us to confront with wit and guile what most refuse to face? We need this word. Relax. Take a deep breath. It's gonna be cool. Two syllables. Six letters. It's not the word, only the fear that needs to be put aside.
John Ridley is a commentator and author of The American Way, a graphic-novel series to be published in February
Look out I'm about to use the "g" word. But with the continuing escalated prices of Manhattan real estate, rich white people finally figured out if you just go up a few blocks and start buying brownstones and townhouses you can force the low-middle income folks out (gentrification anyone?) and up. Then you have these young first time homebuyers attempting to draw attention to themselves by constantly talking about how they "live in Harlem". Harlem may be "safer" now because the low income residents have been forced up and out. For increased crime you need to look no further than the Bronx and certain parts of Brooklyn and Queens where people who are forever down on their luck (minorities/immigrants) try to live the only way they know how. (Sorry, I couldn't refrain from using a line from the Dukes of Hazzard theme song, after all what would a discussion about race be without an orange car with a confederate flag on top?)
"The leads are weak!"
"The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"
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I agree, that comment is terrible and inexcusably racist. Like he's proud of it or something. Smacks of superiority to me too.
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London, Brixton, 14 July 1993
London, Wembley, 1996
London, Wembley, 18 June 2007
London, O2, 18 August 2009
London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 31 July 2012
Milton Keynes Bowl, 11 July 2014
I'll just overlook the fact that you're talking shit for a minute, and just point out that I was actually referring to homophobia and racism against other minority groups, relative to racism against blacks. My comments could apply to racism against whites too, though.
Oh right, nice get-out clause. :P
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London, Brixton, 14 July 1993
London, Wembley, 1996
London, Wembley, 18 June 2007
London, O2, 18 August 2009
London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 31 July 2012
Milton Keynes Bowl, 11 July 2014
You could go back and actually re-read the original post, if you wanted.
what do you mean by "reverse racism"?
~Michael Bolton
Well said and exactly how I feel. Apologize and be on with it. Stop trying to be someone you're not. We know you're an asshole and obviously have SOME disrespect for blacks, to let it get out like that. But, an apology for offending some people and having it go public suffices. Some will choose to boycott you and some won't even care, but ENOUGH already.
LMAO at Blackzilla.
nowadays hits you when you're young
Haha. I wouldn't go that far, but the Baptist's (who are predominantly black) tip HORRIBLY. They had a convention every year next door to this place I worked.
nowadays hits you when you're young
Me too! 1 out of six tip
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
We drank in a black pub in New York one night and it was the best craic we had over there. Instead of standing out being a bad thing, everyone wanted to talk to us
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Yup, and if Michael Richards knew where he was going, he wouldn't have either.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
You 'probably' may not have gone? :eek:
Ummm...hello
Certainly not
I'm just saying that if we all know where we are going, we might not go.
The reason Michael Richards is apologizing is because he knows where he went, but didn't know he was going there before he went there.
Friends WAS great
Well ahnimus, it's a good story to have though, isn't it? Didn't feel like it at the time
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Hehe, I totally agree, see the thread "Free-Will" for more of what I mean
By JOHN RIDLEY
Time
Posted Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006
Nigger.
Take a real good gander at it. Two syllables. Six letters. And give it a goodbye. 'Cause right now nigger's on a linguistic hit list. If the verbal totalitarians have their way, they will take a blowtorch to the word, light it up and not stop burning until even the embers and ash aren't fit to be returned to the earth.
But what would we really be destroying? There is no other word in our culture that incites, infuriates, confounds and informs as does the word nigger. Who uses it, how it's used, which washed-up actor turned comic (think Michael Richards) shoulda stayed the hell clear of the word--they all help mark the ascension of black America through the cultural landscape. In art and letters and theater and comedy, this one word, this mangle of Latin and French and Spanish, has been description and slur and salutation, and in each incarnation a curio of our society.
No matter the classic book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in an antebellum age; the plight of runaway slave Nigger Jim is given equal consideration as that of his young white friend. Through Nigger Jim, the concept of racial parity, the examination of the system of slavery were forced upon Southern segregationists.
Should we also toss on the fire Dick Gregory's autobiography, written for cross-consumption as a harsh accounting of the racial indignities heaped upon a young black as he travels from boy to man? The book's ultimate satirical trick was to flip the slur into a sales tool. Its title: Nigger! "Whenever you hear the word 'nigger,'" Gregory wrote in the introduction, "you'll know they're advertising my book." Call a man a nigger, earn a brother a dollar.
Jump to Hollywood's blaxploitation era in the 1960s, when blacks suddenly were allowed to make movies told from our point of view. Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song--an ode to a wronged black man on the run from the cops--introduced the lead character as a "baadasssss nigger coming back to collect some dues!" And that "nigger" in the film, as Van Peebles tells it, snapped the streak of "liberal, sort of nice movies where we always ended up dead at the end."
In 1984's A Soldier's Story, a black military officer is investigating the murder of an unpopular black soldier near an Army base in Louisiana. Sergeant Waters, the victim, brutally compels a young black private to give up his country ways and "quit thinking like a nigger." It was a rarely seen public representation of our private interactions: the impatience some blacks have with a victim mentality. Shocking. Powerful. A message to a white populace that we are not lemmings. And that even among ourselves, we're not a single tribe.
Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock have all traded on demystifying nigger. And in doing so, they have advanced the racial debate further than a thousand roundtable discussions populated with the best Ivy League minds. Pryor and Chevy Chase's Saturday Night Live "word association" sketch was a prime example of comedy's power to explore racial interplay in the workplace, the constant questioning of blacks as to when a comment is harmless and when is it racist. Chase is the white human-resources executive. Pryor, the black job applicant. What begins with Chase: "White," Pryor: "Black," devolves through Chase: "Negro," Pryor: "Whitey," Chase: "Colored," Pryor: "Redneck," Chase: "Jungle bunny," Pryor: "Honky!" Chase: "Nigger," Pryor: "Dead honky!"
1976. Silver Streak, Pryor and Gene Wilder's comedic take on The Defiant Ones. In the penultimate moment, Pryor's character, camouflaged as a lowly train porter, flips a gat on the uppity white villain, demanding to know, in a brilliant combination of anger and comic timing, "Who you callin' nigger?" Yeah. That was all of us. That was all of black America wanting to know from any race baiter as we moved through the Establishment: Excuse me, who exactly are you calling nigger?
And a couple of mollycoddles out there want to put the kibosh on that? Line 'em up, man. Line up pop culture from The Nigger of the Narcissus to The Birth of a Nation to To Kill a Mockingbird, right on through N.W.A. and "Niggas vs. Black People," and on to comedian Dave Chappelle playing a blind Ku Klux Klan member who ends up yelling "nigger" at himself.
In an era of enlightenment and free communication, do we really want to wipe out the work of the satirists who shove and cajole, who take language and thought by the throat and force us to confront with wit and guile what most refuse to face? We need this word. Relax. Take a deep breath. It's gonna be cool. Two syllables. Six letters. It's not the word, only the fear that needs to be put aside.
John Ridley is a commentator and author of The American Way, a graphic-novel series to be published in February
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I thought it was an interesting read and since I have now access to the Time archive, I thought I'd give it a go.
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That Chase-Pryor skit is a classic
Indeed it is, I just knew the author would mention it.
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That was a very good read.
too much unfair pressure against all of you whiteys.
fight the power as usual reborn.
:rolleyes:
edit: this came out weird on paper.....but yeah, lots of peeps do need to apologize too. yup.
Hey, if this man's apologetic crusade makes you all hot and bothered, power to ya. Call me crazy for thinking once or twice is good enough.
Let me guess. Your friends live in the low, low 100's? Perhaps, even 98th st on the east side?!?!?
"The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"
"What's your name?"
"FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
Where is it more dangerous? 130+ ?
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Look out I'm about to use the "g" word. But with the continuing escalated prices of Manhattan real estate, rich white people finally figured out if you just go up a few blocks and start buying brownstones and townhouses you can force the low-middle income folks out (gentrification anyone?) and up. Then you have these young first time homebuyers attempting to draw attention to themselves by constantly talking about how they "live in Harlem". Harlem may be "safer" now because the low income residents have been forced up and out. For increased crime you need to look no further than the Bronx and certain parts of Brooklyn and Queens where people who are forever down on their luck (minorities/immigrants) try to live the only way they know how. (Sorry, I couldn't refrain from using a line from the Dukes of Hazzard theme song, after all what would a discussion about race be without an orange car with a confederate flag on top?)
"The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"
"What's your name?"
"FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"