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| Thu, 04-12-2007 - 6:22pm |
I've been thinking about the recent discussion about "opinions" and the Imus case comes to mind as an example, an extreme example for sure...but an example none the less.
Here's a link to one of the many stories about this issue
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/09/imus.ap/index.html?eref=ew?cid=CNN+Showbiz+Feed
So is it true, if someone

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Edited 4/21/2007 6:41 pm ET by egd3blessed
Racist is also an adjective that means racially intolerant - A slur, is a remark that is meant to damage or denigrate, demonstrates intolerance. When a slur is made against a person of another race, it is a racist comment.
Only in you view. The rapper is a totally different issue and have nothing to do with what Imus said. But since you are so persistent, I'll throw you a bone. The rappers and comedians like Chris Rock and the late Richard Pryor, use the n word in way that is like a dialect to those within the black community. The word is sometimes used describe a lazy, wannabe gangsta; in that context it is a slur, just not a racial slur. If rappers believe the word has another meaning when they speak among themselves, I have a tendency to take them at their word and put it down to another American dialect I do not fully understand. I am originally from the UK and there are still many Americanisms I don't totally get. I do believe blacks can make racists comments against other blacks; I think I heard some about Barak Obama about him not being black enough.
In my narrow little world, the people I interact with from other races would never use the racial slurs. I personally find many rap lyrics offensive, and I can not understand so many rap fans, both white and black accept the slurs, glorification of crime, homophobia, and misogyny in the songs, but hopefully, not in real life.
I'll ask you again, how this relates to the Imus debate. He made a racist comment. The target of the comment thought it racist, Imus admitted that it could be construed to be racist comment, although, he personally, was not a racist. What black rappers do and say has nothing to do with Imus' comments.
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I read the transcript - and he admitted it when he made his apologies.
He was playing the victim, right? You seem to think we should all be able to overcome that.
No, he can not, because when he does, it a racist comment.
Edited 4/21/2007 10:53 pm ET by currieri
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No it isnt. It is a clear show of hypocrisy. It is ok for these guys to do it but not these guys. So have your bone and let your dog enjoy it!
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Can you post said transcript?
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No I dont think he played the victim at all.
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Still isnt a racist comment. At least now you understand the context Imus was speaking.
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Yes, it is.
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
2. U.S. slang (freq. derogatory.). Of hair, esp. that of a black person: frizzy.
1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 523 Hair nappy or very spiral. 1927 B. GRANT Nappy Head Blues (song) in R. R. MacLeod Yazoo 1{em}20 (1988) 21 Your head is nappy, your feet's so mamlish long. 1971 Black World June 71/2 Her hair..was in the bushy style that the freedom riders had brought. They called it ‘natural’; Bojack called it nappy. 1987 E. LEONARD Bandits iv. 56 The other one was Creole-looking, a light-skinned black guy with pointy cheekbones and nappy hair.
3. (Sense 2) nappy-haired, -headed adjs. nappy head U.S. slang (derogatory), a black person.
1954 L. ARMSTRONG Satchmo v. 86 She was short and *nappy haired and she had buck teeth. 1995 E. WHITE Farewell Symphony (1998) viii. 311 Kevin was thrilled one night when he picked up a dark, muscular, nappy-haired guy. 1973 Black World Apr. 63 All them ol' *nappy-heads runnin' up there tryin' to pull his clothes off. 1994 A. SINCLAIR Coffee will make you Black xii. 117 Donald yells ‘nappy head’ every time the teacher calls her name. 1896 Atlantic Monthly May 719 Think I must 'a' ben cunjered when I married a man black like George, an' now I has this houseful o' *nappy-headed chillun. 1950 A. LOMAX Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 80 Light-skinned Downtown shared the bandstand with ‘real black and nappy-headed’ Uptown. 1997 Jrnl. Blacks in Higher Educ. No. 17. 92 (caption) Always the big joke was that black people were big-lipped, bug-eyed, nappy-headed, and stupid.
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