Debate Over Coretta King's Portrait Includes Racial Slur

[Paladin]

Actually, if you would have read the story, it was a black WOMAN.

*chuckles*

 

[Masterj]

Well I bet Don Imus would disagree with you.

Actually I bet he wouldn't. Anyone can say whatever they please, but that doesn't mean there aren't consequences to their words.

And again for the record, I do not think Imus should have been fired.

 

[Nova]

Actually, if you would have read the story, it was a black WOMAN.

I stand corrected: a black woman said something stupid. That changes everything.

Perhaps it wasn't clear that I don't consider this issue important enough to do more than scan the story.

 

[Paladin]

I stand corrected: a black woman said something stupid.

Does this mean people are going to call for her removal?

 

[Nova]

Does this mean people are going to call for her removal?

Are you going to argue that a exaggerated claim of racial animus is the same as calling teenagers "nappy headed hos"? Because if so, aren't you making the exact same mistake?

(For the record, we don't know the full context of the remark. Are such motions usually seconded routinely? Did the speaker feel her concern was simply dismissed by white legislators who would respond quite differently if the motion concerned a portrait of a white leader's wife? Even if so, the leap to reference Don Imus was unfortunate, but there may be more to the story than we know.)

 

[White Rain]

I stand corrected: a black woman said something stupid. That changes everything.

Perhaps it wasn't clear that I don't consider this issue important enough to do more than scan the story.

I wonder what would have happened had the rep. that said this was WHITE, either man or woman, instead of being black. Again, just like the Imus fiasco, Jackson, Sharpton, and the black community would be all over it.
Instead, the person was black, and we have't heard a peep from them.

 

[Paladin]

Are you going to argue that a exaggerated claim of racial animus is the same as calling teenagers "nappy headed hos"? Because if so, aren't you making the exact same mistake?

(For the record, we don't know the full context of the remark. Are such motions usually seconded routinely? Did the speaker feel her concern was simply dismissed by white legislators who would respond quite differently if the motion concerned a portrait of a white leader's wife? Even if so, the leap to reference Don Imus was unfortunate, but there may be more to the story than we know.)

I guess tongue-in-cheek doesn't suit some here. :sick:

 

[White Rain]

Are you going to argue that a exaggerated claim of racial animus is the same as calling teenagers "nappy headed hos"? Because if so, aren't you making the exact same mistake?

(For the record, we don't know the full context of the remark. Are such motions usually seconded routinely? Did the speaker feel her concern was simply dismissed by white legislators who would respond quite differently if the motion concerned a portrait of a white leader's wife? Even if so, the leap to reference Don Imus was unfortunate, but there may be more to the story than we know.)

If a white person HAD said this we would know the full story because Sharpton and Jackson would make damn sure of it.

 

[Masterj]

I wonder what would have happened had the rep. that said this was WHITE, either man or woman, instead of being black. Again, just like the Imus fiasco, Jackson, Sharpton, and the black community would be all over it.
Instead, the person was black, and we have't heard a peep from them.

I am not following you here. You think Jackson or Sharpton should make a comment because this woman said something stupid?

 

[Nova]

I guess tongue-in-cheek doesn't suit some here. :sick:

No, I got it. Just wanted to make sure. There have been a lot of wild claims on these threads of late (speaking in general, not of your posts specifically).

ETA: I thought the "Aliens" thing was funny, too.

 

[shopper]

He never used the "N" word. He said hos.

This woman representative is who said the n word.

"It's like calling Mrs. King a nappy headed (n-word)," said Salaam.

 

[Nova]

I wonder what would have happened had the rep. that said this was WHITE, either man or woman, instead of being black. Again, just like the Imus fiasco, Jackson, Sharpton, and the black community would be all over it.
Instead, the person was black, and we have't heard a peep from them.

I don't understand your point. If a white legislator said lack of action by her colleagues was racist, why would black activists be "all over it"?

Is your point that she said "nappy-headed" whatevers? If so, I think the difference is context. She was talking about the words and how they had been used by Imus (whom she quoted incorrectly); that's different from using such words (or similar ones) as slurs.