Can you guess when it's okay for whites to use the n-word?

American Thinker ^ | 05/29/2015 | Newsmachete

[SeekAndFind]

Most major media outlets try to cover up their ideology.  They still push it in articles, but they like to beat around the bush, speaking indirectly and acting a bit timid about pushing their real agenda because of its radical nature.

But you don't see that kind of rhetorical hesitancy at the Huffington Post.  Their forces of radical progressivism are always the first to charge over the top of Brokeback Mountain, championing communism and the destruction of our culture and our nation-state, and always with a strong emphasis on sexual deviancy, as befitting a publication named after Arianna Huffington's gay ex-husband.  They are so extremely left, and so open about their extremism, that their articles frequently are rich in self-parody.

So, for the first time in a very long while, I found myself surprised by an article in HuffPo talking about an older cartoon drawn by Theodor Geisel, known as "Dr. Seuss," that was racist.  And by "racist" I mean, really, really, really racist, in extreme bad taste.  The cartoon in question refers to blacks by the n-word, and they are drawn with monkey-like facial features.

So I figured that a radical left publication like HuffPo would be very strong in its criticism of Geisel.  But the article actually tried to excuse his behavior, saying:

Filmmaker Ron Lamothe, the man behind "The Political Dr. Seuss," expressed in an interview that biographers deemed Seuss "regretful about some of his cartoons" from the earlier period.

[MrB]

It’s not just the use of “the” word, and the simian features in the drawing,

but the reference to “the woodpile”.

That is a reference to a white woman having a bastard child fathered by a black man.

[struggle]

[Parley Baer]

Do blacks have any restrictions of their speech? I would assume no and anything goes.

[ifinnegan]

I remember decades ago, when I was a kid, hearing Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy use that term - a n-—— in the wood pile.

I didn’t know what the term meant then and I still don’t.

Now I see this Suess cartoon that uses the term. So it must have been an at least somewhat common term and had a meaning.

Anybody know what it was supposed to mean?

[Vigilanteman]

Libtards regularly use the n-word against people like Lloyd Marcus, Walter Williams, Justice Thomas, Thomas Sowell and any other Americans of African descent who dare stray off the liberal plantation.

[ifinnegan]

You answered the question I asked in 5.

I remember Billy Carter met a black fellow also named Carter who joked maybe they were related.

Billy Carter responded, “we all have a n-—— in the wood pile”.

The other Carter chuckled a bit in response. Later he said he’d thought Jimmy’s brother had said “we all come from the same wood pile” and hadn’t heard the racial epithet.

[Cicero]

It meant something embarrassing that was kept secret. For instance, suspicious ancestry.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nigger+in+the+woodpile&defid=1028291

[MNDude]

This disappoints me as one of the greater writers of conservative based books.

Horton Hears a Who: Pro-life message
The Lorax: Warnings of what happens to nations with open border policies
Thudwick: A story of the hardworking, and those leeching off them
The King’s stilts: Warning of the need for a strong military is necessary for peace
How the Grinch stole Christmas: Pro-Christmas message
Yertle the Turtle: Warnings against a strong centralized government

[ifinnegan]

I see.

It’s got a literal meaning, as pointed out in 2, and the more metaphorical one.

[I want the USA back]

This is what they think of people who they have officially designated as “White.”
A$$holes. I had nothing to do with slavery. Slavery was eliminated (except in a certain middle eastern cult) long ago in the USA.
They can’t let go. If they let go then the minorities will have to face the fact that their pathologies are self-inflicted.

[MrB]

The scenario referred to is that the “n” would be hiding behind the wood pile for a rendezvous with the [white] farmer’s daughter.

[BipolarBob]

This disappoints me as one of the greater writers of conservative based books.
We are supposed to mature as we grow older. He did. Forgive and move on.

[Vigilanteman]

Anybody know what it was supposed to mean?

Proper use of the archaic term is an old reference to unknown ancestry or ancestral traits which may show up in later generations dating back to the days of slavery (and even afterward) when interracial affairs were much more common than people liked to believe.

Former S.C. Senator Strom Thurmond admitted siring a child by a black woman in his later years and provided both her and the child support. The woman was classy enough to keep quiet about what would have been a career ender.

[vette6387]

Whenever you need to call a spade a spade?

[hanamizu]

W.C. Fields used the phrase “Ubangi in the fuel supply” in a movie in the 30s. Back then everyone knew what the original phrase meant.

[Vigilanteman]

Those were the days when the n-word was as common as the f-word is now and the f-word was as shocking as the n-word is now.

BTW, I'm guessing by your user name that you either spent some time in Japan or studied Japanese. Maybe both?

[DJ Taylor]

hanamizu = nose water?

[Vigilanteman]

Literal and close enough, but snot would be more accurate. The characters for boogers is literally translated as nose crap, JFYI.

[Organic Panic]

It is ok when libs use the word. LBJ has them voting democrat for another 150 years.