recent "this just in" posting

[seanx]

.........whoever writes this dumb shit needs to stick to his/her day job.............it's like the anti-earl david reed with slightly less humor (because you both like playing the race card when you can't think of anything funny to say........and thats's quite often)

......keep the jokes for your next kkk meeting.........I'm sure the brownstonelodge number 666 in hershey would be glad to let you speak there..........

[HBGOnline]

Unfortunately that one came from a recent Patriot News article. We only added 3 sentences and a photo.

[seanx]

........really?............then that was a great parody!.......I stand corrected...........

nice reporting. that guy/gal is hired..............

[HBGOnline]

Here's the full article:

Why can't this racial slur stay buried?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
BY DIANA FISHLOCK and REGGIE SHEFFIELD
Of The Patriot-News

There are words you just don't say.
But is the N-word one of them?

Some black entertainers fling it around. The rapper Nas is releasing a CD next month with the N-word as its title.

But many groups, including the Greater Harrisburg NAACP, have held burial ceremonies for the word, hoping to end what they see as its polarizing use as a funny, friendly reference that has infiltrated music and culture.

So when Elizabeth Wilson repeatedly used the word Monday night at a Harrisburg School District Board of Control meeting, it shut the meeting down.

Wilson, who is black and a former member of the elected school board, said she was explaining comparisons between the black control board members and house slaves. Those slaves sometimes advocated the master's agenda.

It's extremely offensive for anyone who's not black to use the word, but blacks are divided over whether it's OK for them to use the N-word themselves.

Groups try to bury it, but it persists because people keep using it, said Homer Floyd, executive director of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.

Blacks use it as an affectionate term sometimes, Floyd said. "But it's still offensive."

Hip-hop culture has embraced the word, Floyd said. "There are those who feel the more it is used, the less offensive it will become and we will become." Others, like Floyd, say the opposite.

"I don't care who you are. If you use the N-word, it's wrong," said Stan Lawson, president of the Greater Harrisburg branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Words like "lackey, flunky or puppet" get the point across, he said. "The N-word not only degrades the person you're talking to, it degrades the person who said it."

People who say no one should ever utter the N-word are living in another world, author Ricky L. Jones said.

"If you want to live in this idealized black utopia, that's one thing. I can't be a hypocrite. I use it," said Jones, an assistant professor and political science specialist at the University of Louisville.

Jones said he calls his friends the N-word.
"But it's bad form to, one, use it to cast aspersions on other black people," he said. "Two, at a public place. Three, to do it in mixed race company.

"I'm shocked that she would use that term in a public place like that. She must have been really, really angry," Jones said. "Very rarely do you hear black people using that against each other to cast aspersions."

All ethnic groups have terms they can use toward each other, but if someone outside the group used them, it would be unacceptable, Jones said. Just because black people use the N-word, there's no green light for whites to use the word.
Jones said he wouldn't call an Irish guy a Mick, either. "I have enough respect for other cultures not to cross that line."
It wasn't the first time someone used the term house slave or the N-word at a Board of Control meeting.

The issue dates to the December 2000 state-approved school takeover by Mayor Stephen R. Reed, who is white. Reed and his hand-picked Board of Control replaced the elected, all-black school board in running the district. Recently, a Dauphin County Court judge ordered four elected board members be removed for disagreeing with the Board of Control. The decision was reversed on appeal, but the Board of Control is challenging that ruling.
Even Board of Control member and former NAACP President Clare Jones has used the N-word at meetings to denounce the house-slave accusations. Monday night was first time a board meeting was adjourned over the repeated use of the N-word.

"To me, the word is degrading and disrespectful and it shouldn't be used at all," said black businesswoman Takia Colston. "I can't stand to hear it, personally."

Colston dismissed Wilson's explanation that she used the word for an illustrative purpose.

"I've heard it used. I understand what they think it means, but no. I don't agree with that. I don't see how you could use it to illustrate anything," Colston said.

Mike Albert of Mr. Mike's Records in Harrisburg said he objects to the word. But his store sells a lot of rap and hip-hop music and the N-word seems like a constant refrain.

But a school board meeting is a different, even more unacceptable context, said Albert, who is white.
"Controversy will create sales, but when it comes to a school board ... you're supposed to be an adult. What if I as a white man stood up and said that? I'd be beat up by everyone. Until we can all use it equally, then we shouldn't use it. This is supposed to be Martin Luther King's birthday," he said.

Staff writer John Luciew contributed to this report. DIANA FISHLOCK: 255-8251 or [e-mail] REGGIE SHEFFIELD: 255-8170 or [e-mail]

[freddyv]

Jones said he calls his friends the N-word.
"But it's bad form to, one, use it to cast aspersions on other black people," he said. "Two, at a public place. Three, to do it in mixed race company.

so it's ok for blacks to say it to other blacks in private, or for whites to say it to other whites in private. glad he cleared that one up for us.

this pretty much says it all right here:

What if I as a white man stood up and said that? I'd be beat up by everyone.

it's such a dumb argument. I wouldn't get all up in arms if somebody called me a cracker or a honky, regardless of the context...it's ridiculous.

[JeffD5Buddy]

I'm stayin' away from this one...

[HBGOnline]

jeffd5buddy said:

I'm stayin' away from this one...

Don't blame you one bit!!! It's a no win situation. However the media will continue to talk about for years to come.

Thus the parody on our part to show how stupid it really is.