This just in
A woman who grew up in Georgia in the 1950s may have said the word “nigger” as recently as 30 years ago. Every body freak out and cue the race baiters.
So, show of hands, who has never said the word “nigger”? All you with your hands up are probably lying. Those who admit it are unemployable.
June 24th, 2013 at 9:31 pm
I can’t even lie and say I have never said it. Do I wish I had never said it? No. I will not (if I can help it) spend time wishing I hadn’t done something from the past. That way lies madness.
June 24th, 2013 at 9:58 pm
one of my boyhood heroes was Lenny Bruce, “Blazing Saddles” came out around the time puberty hit, was a pretty big fan of punk rock….
like to think there isn’t an individual alive that couldn’t be offended by something I have said at some point
June 24th, 2013 at 10:29 pm
Tarantino must be going to a special level of P.C. hell for writing the script for Django Unchained. It seemed like it was every other word in that (excellent) movie.
June 24th, 2013 at 10:46 pm
Chiggers and Jiggers are far more hazardous to one’s well being…
June 24th, 2013 at 10:52 pm
SE, that’s totally different. Django Unchained was giving a realistic depiction of the past, while Paula Dean was giving an account of… um… the past.
Ok, they’re the same.
June 24th, 2013 at 11:32 pm
It’s not like there’s that many jobs to be had anyway.
June 25th, 2013 at 5:16 am
Oh, I think niggardly counts, too.
June 25th, 2013 at 5:22 am
It seems to have boosted her restaurant business. Not everybody is a politically correct f*ga** Food Network fainting sissyboy.
June 25th, 2013 at 6:26 am
Don’t call a chigger a chigger, that is racist. Call a chigger a “chigro.”
June 25th, 2013 at 7:09 am
In the mid-seventies, “some” thought the country would have been made whole when “n*jokes” were considered no more offensive than “Polack” jokes. Those were heady days, the mid-seventies. Wish I’d appreciated them more.
Anyone get the feeling this would have been less offensive if uttered by the prexy of a major northern university? The one who tells the Polack jokes?
The usual race-hustlers are out this morning, calling for this cook to redeem herself with major contributions to their causes. That’s a symptom, right there. She could do a lot more to promote good feeling, and the South, by staying in character and demonstrating that virtually all famous southern cookery is of African origin.
I’m going to miss Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, and the Cream of Wheat Pullman chef. Enjoy some today; they are on the tear-stained trail of the Fighting Sioux.
June 25th, 2013 at 7:13 am
Oh, and Bob: In “Doctor No,” Ian Fleming did just that. I know, it’s different when the English say it.
June 25th, 2013 at 7:55 am
Bob smith,
Actually, the AP style guide currently recommends “mites of color”.
June 25th, 2013 at 8:13 am
No Tam. It is “Insect-Americans.” To accuse them of causing itching is profiling.
June 25th, 2013 at 9:32 am
I found it ironic that Smithfield cancelled their endorsement. Never thought the Chinese cared that much about what we call each other here.
June 25th, 2013 at 10:06 am
Yeah, in the eyes of half of this country and almost all of the media, she is worse than the murderous abortionist in Pa who delivered and killed babies in his “clinic”.
June 25th, 2013 at 10:12 am
If only she had put it to RAP MUSIC but I guess there are only so many words that rhyme with You-All.
June 25th, 2013 at 10:15 am
I may be considered not niggardly, for my spic-and-span riding gear, but you’ll find no chink-in-my-armor.
I do self censor when tempted to say “I want to go smoke a fag” in your fair city, though.
Sons of Ireland mc
June 25th, 2013 at 10:24 am
This used to be a country.
June 25th, 2013 at 10:28 am
Does this mean I shouldn’t sing “Straight Outta Compton” anymore? ğŸ™
June 25th, 2013 at 10:32 am
You have to lie to get a job if an HR department holds the gate.
Current HR doctrine requires it, since they set up impossible conditions to winnow out applicants, leaving only people who are good at lying.
Honesty in the top end job market these days will always get you fired.
June 25th, 2013 at 10:33 am
There is a way to avoid having to lie to these fools: interview with the manager you are going to work for.
June 25th, 2013 at 11:05 am
Everyone in the news who has said “the N-word” counts too. There is no difference.
June 25th, 2013 at 11:33 am
the shame-and-blame industry is looking for its next target, since gun owners have prevailed.
June 25th, 2013 at 1:14 pm
I’ve only ever said it singing along with gangsta rap.
So I both have and haven’t, in the meaningful sense.
June 25th, 2013 at 1:28 pm
Hmm….not since I was 6 years old and describing the kid down the street to my father, who grew up in the “rascist” south. (Columbia, SC) and was a career Air Force NCO. I will forever remember his expression, and his kindly manner as he sat me down and explained why that was offensive. I can remember where I was when I said it, (the back porch of our base housing in Sweetwater, Tx), the weather, (hot and sunny), and the time of day, even! (Just after he had arrived home from work, at around 5:15). This happened 45 years ago, and I still remember it like yesterday.
That doesn’t mean I don’t think this whole thing is stupid. It is the worst kind of reverse racism to say that the word may be used by blacks when referring to other blacks, then say white people can’t say it because its offensive.
We have sunk so low that the tide can’t raise us, I’m afraid. We are far too quick to take offense, and far to likely to find offense in others.
June 25th, 2013 at 2:48 pm
If Paula Deen were black nobody would have even flinched.
June 25th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
Divemedic — They aren’t insects, despite having six legs. The proper, politically correct term is “Arachno-American”, please.
Your insistance on using outdated and scientifically incorrect terminology shows your inherent prejudice against these mites, and arthropods in general. The Reeducation Committee will be sending a van by presently for your Awareness and Enrichment training, Citizen.
June 25th, 2013 at 3:13 pm
Guess that means I have to throw away any “NWA” CD’s I come across, eh?
June 25th, 2013 at 4:37 pm
Ok, anyone have a replacement for the term “n****r-rig”? That was a common term of use for my father and his cohorts (“greatest” generation age). Don’t know the origins, but it was a very useful description. Been biting my tongue for many years over the use of this.
June 25th, 2013 at 5:37 pm
“jerry-rig” is the one I hear most often, suppose few enough still refer to Germans as “jerry” for it to raise much ire from that community….”southern engineering” is another, have even even seen a southern engineering degree, it was sharpie printed on duct tape
June 25th, 2013 at 5:41 pm
Will, try “Afro Engineering”.
June 25th, 2013 at 6:10 pm
steve I. said:
” “jerry-rig” is the one I hear most often, suppose few enough still refer to Germans as “jerry” for it to raise much ire from that community….”southern engineering” is another, have even even seen a southern engineering degree, it was sharpie printed on duct tape”
The correct term for that, these days is: “Presidential Solution”.
Along the same lines, it is no longer acceptable to use the “N word”. Rather, the P.C. term is: “Cacuasionally Challenged”.
Hope this helps?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
June 25th, 2013 at 7:55 pm
As other have alluded to, but not verbalized; Jay Z says it and gets a million bucks; Paula Dean says it 30 years ago and gets fired.
I say sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander; if one group can’t say it then the other can’t either.
June 25th, 2013 at 9:10 pm
““jerry-rig” is the one I hear most often, suppose few enough still refer to Germans as “jerry” for it to raise much ire from that community…”
Ironically, most people saying “jerry-rigged” really mean “jury-rigged“.
June 25th, 2013 at 9:21 pm
Riggers? I like riggers. Some of my best friends are riggers. We couldn’t sail without riggers. Don’t tell me that Da’Gub is going to take our riggers away.
June 25th, 2013 at 9:53 pm
At Tam, It’s called a gas can. The Jerry can was not my fault.
June 26th, 2013 at 5:25 pm
Interesting story here from deep in the Heart of Dixie:
Confession of a black journalist: Like Paula Deen, I’ve used the n-word
I began to see the hypocrisy of expecting white people to adhere to a standard that I was not upholding myself. As a black man, this writing is my attempt to point out the fake outrage and the hypocrisy of those of us who claim we are somehow damaged by this particular person . . .
SOURCE: http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/06/bayway_traffic_needs_an_off_ra.html
June 27th, 2013 at 10:29 am
I like that the article has this quote of a reporter clearly being a bigot when talking about someone they are accusing of being a bigot:
“As Chicago Now columnist John Chatz wrote, “To many of us, the South still stands for slavery and the Civil War. This may be wrong and it may be simple, but people like Paula Deen help keep these opinions alive.””